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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You actually let your hild go fix himself something he "liked" after an adult prepared a full dinner? 
You honestly think that was ok?[/quote]

Not OP, but I allow my kids to do this and I 100% think it's okay.  If my kids don't like dinner, they are free to make a sandwich and eat it with a piece of fruit. I am not doing it for them, but I don't make them eat what I have prepared.

It's a rule at our house that the kids have to try anything new, and they have to be polite when they decline to eat it,  but they don't have to eat stuff they don't like.  That is freakishly controlling.

Not every person cares for the same foods. People should not be forced to eat things that they don't enjoy. Food should be a pleasure, not a punishment, and people should have control over what they put in their own bodies.[/quote]

This is too sane and reasonable. The DCUMers will never go for it. [/quote]

+1. I don't see how the behavior was that rude. Once the kid found out the food, he went and made something else - himself. I would never make my kid eat food he didn't like. That's settimg them up to have food issues later in life. My parents rarely served me vegetables as a kid. That's because their parents forced them to eat vegetables as kids. They never ate them as adults.

The kid made the alternate meal himself. Should he have sat there and watched everyone else eat?  Isn't it rude to eat in front of others before they have their meal?  If this was an informal family dinner, what's the big deal with the rest of the family starting why the kid was making his plate. [/quote]

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