Quote: (09-14-2014 03:07 PM)la_mode Wrote:
Another one that no one seems to talk about is "food discipline", basically making you eat something you dislike and not letting you leave the table until you do so.
My mom would do that to us with collard and mustard greens (oh the horror!!). Now as an adult we can't get enough of them, same with asparagus.
On the flip side we have two cousins that could eat whatever they wanted growing up. So mush so that their mom would go out to McDonald's if they didn't like what she made for dinner. Now they are both overweight single adults who appear to only eat fried food and hamburgers. At family functions they bypass 90% of the food and normally have a plate of fried fish or just a burger. One in particular sends back food at restaurants without even tasting it because he doesn't like they way it looks. I could write an essay detailing the stunts these two have pulled at the dinner tables over the years. Its a running joke that keeps on giving. Needless we make our kids eat their vegetables until they're done.