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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here---For those of you that offer alternatives, how to you handle a it?  For example--my son will eat meatloaf.  It's not his favorite dinner, but he will eat it.  However, if a PB&J sandwich was also offered, he would select that.  So how do you handle offering one child a different option that you don't want the other children to also have?  And I don't want to get into a habit of alternatives being available for dinner.[/quote]

Private conversation with my son that explains why the other kid has special rules.    That it is generally your house your rules, but also stress that you are not his mother and this was the compromise you agreed upon.  Say that this compromise is the only way to keep having him as a regular guest, and part of the compromise is that the compromise doesn't affect the rules for your own children.[/quote]

This is what I would do op.  But I like the idea of serving dessert after the child leaves at 7 PM.  That avoids the issue entirely (although I think you said you eat dinner at 5 PM so dessert at 7 is hard.)   STill talk with your kids and explain that this is a compromise.[/quote]

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