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       Re: House rules vs honoring a guests request
       By: Gellchom Date: July 13, 2019, 10:06 am
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       No matter what their parents do, people just have their own
       tastes and preferences.
       As kids, my brother and I were served the same foods, including
       vegetables, and neither of us was ever forced to eat or even to
       try something.
       I always liked all kinds of vegetables when I was a child, and I
       still do.  My brother never liked vegetables, and he still
       doesn’t (although after much effort on his gardener husband’s
       part, he has expanded the list of those he will eat).
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       Re: House rules vs honoring a guests request
       By: Hanna Date: July 13, 2019, 2:13 pm
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       In in a time and space when we have access to a range of good
       healthy food, I’m a proponent of letting people including little
       ones pick their vegetables of choice. Why would anyone knowingly
       want to feed guests something they dislike?
       This was definitely not about peas, but about one sister wanting
       to prove her parenting superiority to the other.  Frankly I’d
       have wanted to tell the kids “You can’t have food you actually
       like tonight because Auntie is a bitch. But she’s fammmmilyyyy
       and we want you to spend time with your cousins.  Just do your
       best I’ll get you something more after we head back to the
       cabin.”
       Ok, I’d never say exactly that, but maybe a milder version. I
       have strong feelings about this after a thanksgiving that was
       ruined over a relative forcing their kiddo to eat lumpy mashed
       potatoes that no one could possibly have enjoyed.
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