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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Some of you are way too personally invested in what you think your kids' palates say about you. [/b]

Much like other aspects of our kids' personalities and personhood, much of this is out of our control. [/quote]

Ha, yes.

I don't make separate meals.  I do take my kids' preferences into account when planning meals, just as I take my own and my husband's. Our rule is that you have to take at least one bit of everything served, and you can only eat what's on offer.  If you want to fill up on a side dish because you don't like the entree, fine.  Side dishes always include some kind of simple (often raw) vegetable and usually some kind of pasta/rice/grain/bread

Also, if you are "too full" for dinner, you are also too full for dessert.  Dessert is a small treat after the meal, not a substitute for it.  It will not kill you to be hungry for a night, so if you refuse to eat anything (and you aren't sick), I'm not going to freak out and make you something special--you can handle waiting for breakfast.

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