Robt Englund wrote:
>
> Kamus of Kadizhar > wrote in
> news >
> > On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:46:31 -0700, H wrote:
> > It's your house, your rules, your food.
>
> > Any arguing or pleading simply reinforces the (bad) behavior patterns.
> > Don't prepare special foods for her.
>
> Agreed. My grandmother had only one rule in her house: whatever was on the
> table, you had to at least try it. You didn't have to eat it all, but you
> had to try it. She didn't make a big deal of it - it was simply the rule
> and was understood by all, adults and children alike. No one said, "Thanks
> but no thanks."

I was about to say 'when I was 9' then I realized that *all* these
years later, nothing has changed. I go to my mother's house, or
anyone else's for that matter, you eat what was put on the table.
My only complaint is that my mother insisted to the point of loooong
lonely stressful dinners that I eat everything. Even liver.

I'm a much pickier eater now than I was as a kid, there was no reason
to force me to eat the two things I hated.

Just put dinner on the table. Since when do kids get to order what
they want. Ignore it. Who is doing this girl a favor by catering to
her whims?

nancy (we didn't even *have* mcdonalds or mcnuggets when I was a kid,
no lie)