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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Y'all are suggesting leaving a 3 year old hungry?  I don't now about other people's kids, but mine would have had an absolute meltdown if she were hungry, which would then ruin the dinner and any time spent together. [/b] IMO, prioritize making sure no one's throwing any fits over being hungry; it's mean to the child, and not a hill worth dying on.

I find that article to be *highly* judgmental.  Most people do not go around announcing to the world, the struggles they're having with their child(ren).  There are legitimate issues that cause people to feed their children the way they do.  It's better to err on the side of grace, and be more accommodating, than to be that judgmental person that believes that what rules work for your family, must also work for everyone else's.[/quote]
Yes, and that is why we taught our kids to eat a variety of foods, and not just kid friendly food. Makes traveling and going out to eat much easier.[/quote]

My child, who grew up on ethnic foods, and eats a wide variety of it, might not like specific things served in someone else's house.  She has textural aversions, and aversion to tart/bitter flavors (lemon, for instance).  As a courtesy to them, and to save everyone misery, I always took foods with me that I knew she would eat, as a backup plan.   It was better than giving them instructions on how to cook certain things, and what foods to avoid.  Thankfully, my friends are nice people, and understood that kids don't come out of a cookie cutter mold, liking all the same things.  Maybe because their kids mostly had different sets of issues than mine did, but none were these perfect, robotic, kids, that would eat everything that's put in front of them. [/quote]
PP here.. I'm Asian. My kids also eat various ethnic foods, and that includes western food.

We go to a friend's for dinner pretty regularly, and they are of a different ethnicity and vegetarians, but my kids eat some of what they serve.

When I host a dinner, I do try to make something that I think most people would like, BUT, not everyone will like everything I make. One time I hosted a dinner where I had 6 different people with four different "I don't eat that" restrictions.  I am never going to host another dinner with those six folks together ever again.   That was crazy.
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