We have always tried to treat our kids like people. Individuals. They were allowed to have their own ideas and thoughts. I think this might be due to our Boomer Generation backlash from the “children should be seen and not heard” theory of raising offspring.
Back when I was a kid, we all sat down together and got what was served and liked it. Period. We were card carrying members of The Clean Plate Club. There were starving children in China, after all... read more
