re: #176 mmmirele

I dunno, what happened to “you have to eat three bites” or something like that? Or “we don’t have money to waste on food, eat your dinner”? I do remember how, in the early ’90s, my sister would pick up dinner for herself and one kid at a Mexican place’s drive through, and then get Burger King for the other kid, and I thought it was crazy back then. Still think it’s crazy.

My sister deals with this all the time: her children (adults) are a gluten-free lactose intolerant vegetarian and a vegan while her grandchildren have a variety of food objections that are evolving over time. My mother had to deal with my food preferences from the time I was 1. In the past, most families went the route of “you eat what I made or go hungry”. Today parents may decide that certain battles are not worth it, and reserve the conflicts for issues other than diet, especially if the parent themselves has strong food preferences/needs.