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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not only should she be forced to sit with the family she should be forced to eat the meat. [/quote]

:shock: wow.  No way.  I think she should still sit at the table, though.[/quote]
I don't deal with picky eaters. You eat everything on your plate or you don't leave the table. It's not a full plate but a little of everything. None of this I don't like it crap, if I know you don't like it we have it more often hehe [/quote]

This isn't about being a picky eater. OPs daughter has a moral objection to the meat. Are you trying to raise blind followers, or decent adults with a solid moral compass? I am 100% supportive of my child developing their moral standards. I would expect her to eat at the table with the family, but I would not ask her to go against her convictions if I believed they were serious convictions.[/quote]
Op's dd is a child. Children don't make their own choices, they don't have moral convictions. They follow their parents blindly , or at least they should. [/quote]

NP. Wow, that's the opposite of what I hope to teach my child. I would never want any of them go follow me blondly, and I'm quite proud when I see them making their own decisions and developing their own moral convictions for their own reasons. There's no magic switch at age 18, do I say begin as you want to continue and strong people who can think for themselves are created through practice and opportunities, not through making them someone else's puppet for 18 years.[/quote]

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