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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immigrant here. Honestly this kind of behavior does not occur in my country. One dish is prepared for each meal and the WHOLE family must eat whatever is served. Don’t want to eat it because of ‘pickiness’ then fine, go hungry. They eventually will eat some of what is served.

We don’t coddle the children like they do in the US. [/quote]

I am an American and this is what my mother did and I do the same.  [/quote]

+1. Another American here, and we had to sit at a the table until we had eaten a reasonable portion of the food. It taught us lessons about waste. [/quote]

meh, you were just weak and gave in. Guess what? My parents tried this and I just sat at the dinner table until bedtime. Every night. No problem. Didn't give a damn. If they pulled it out for breakfast the next morning to "prove a point" I would simply sit until I needed to catch the bus for school. It taught me nothing except how not to treat my child. [/quote]
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My parents pulled that once.  I slept at the dinner table.  One time they tried to make me take a bite of a food to which I had a texture aversion.  I vomited all over the table.  (I have grown up into an adult who eats a normal variety of foods, but still retains a few texture aversions.)

We have friends who tried this with their kid who, unlike his siblings, who were actually pretty adventurous eaters, had severe food restrictions.  He refused to eat and started losing weight.  He wasn't "picky," he had serious sensory issues that required years of therapy to deal with.  People think kids are "picky" if they don't like absolutely everything; no wonder they don't understand real eating disorders.

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