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Originally Posted by CFrance
Thus the child becomes accustomed to finishing everything on his plate. It's such a bad combination: overfilling the child's plate, not allowing him to discard some items if he doesn't like them, and then making him sit there till finished.
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I agree that overfeeding is bad. My mother, as far as I remember, never made me finish if I was full. But one time, when I was about 3 or 4, she did make me sit until I ate my lentil soup. My brother had whispered in my ear that the baby onions in the soup were slime. So I wasn't going to even taste it. I said I didn't like it and my mother asked, "how do you know you don't like it if you haven't even tasted it?"
She said, "you will just have to sit there until you either eat it or you will have to go to bed hungry." Guess what, the longer I sat there the hungrier I got. Eventually, I got so hungry that the onions didn't look like slime anymore. I started eating and I enjoyed it. Today, lentil soup is one of my favorite dishes. Thanks to my mother for having the backbone to enforce some rules.