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You know it's really not. And the behavior is just rude. You teach kids when they are young to be gracious guest.

They don't need to like what is served but they don't tell the host.
They take a small serving, you encourage them to try.  Some kids will eat at other's houses what they won't eat at home.  if the kid doesn't, oh well, either the host will notice and offer something else or you can feed your kid later.

Lastly, the "picky eater".  If your kid is going to be picky then you need to teach them from the beginning that means they will have to go, take very small servingsl serving, participate in the meal (talk, cut up there food, kind of push it around on the plate, etc), thank the host, tell the host they loved it and wait until home to eat.

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There's absolutely no indication that the kids who visited OP complained about the food to the host. They just didn't eat much, which apparently made OP self conscious. She told their parents (apparently without the parents bringing it up first, other than to ask "what can I bring?") that they could bring their own food for their kids next time and they did. Everyone was happy except for OP, who still seems to be hurt the kids didn't eat her food.

But in any case, your post is kind of idiotic. You're ostensibly responding to a poster who says "there's a difference between occasional dinners out and staying with someone for multiple days" by suggesting that the kids [i]wait until they get home to eat.[/i] Are you serious? Your proposed solution is that picky kids just suck it up and go several days without eating?

More broadly, your post reads like self-righteous nonsense. My child, for the most part, eats whatever he is offered and seems happy about it. But I suspect this has utterly nothing to do with my good parenting, and 100% to do with the fact that he just happens to not be a picky eater. And the folks I know who ate virtually nothing as young children all now eat fairly varied diets and are gracious guests. If I did have a picky eater, I hope I would prioritize making sure that he gets enough healthy food when he needs it rather than making both of us miserable by trying to enforce social norms that he's apparently not ready for yet.[/quote]

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