Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Dinner, dietary issues
How would you like it if your partner told you that there will be no dinner for you until you have done that household chore I told you to do?
The joy of non-coercive family dinner conversations
Making children hate family dinners because of all the coercion around it (“lay the table”, “no you may not leave the table”, “no dessert unless you eat your greens”, “clear the table”, “load the dishwasher”, “clean the kitchen”)?
What do you do about the ethical dilemma posed by your child choosing to eat meat if to you, meat is murder? See the comments for an extended discussion of this issue as it relates to taking children seriously.
The problem of parents doling out the food
Vegetarian parents, meat-eating child
Special family dinners in which the parents are unusually well-mannered (it would be ill-mannered to notice a guest’s ignorance of table manners!)
How do you determine what food to give your children?
Dinner time coercion for children but not adults?
Insisting on strict mealtimes?
What if the family want a barbecue for dinner but your plan was to give them the salad?
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