stop letting your DCs pick and choose at the table?
When they are 1, we are told to let them choose what they want to eat from a range of healthy foods, choose the colour of the plate and later on, the shape their sandwiches are cut into..... so that they have some control over their life.
From the lamb stew thread, the general consensus seems to be that at some point, they eat what they are given, in the form it is presented, or not at all. The parents regain control.
So in your opinions, what is the ideal age for the switchover?
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Following on from freezing lamb stew thread, at what age do you
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Othersideofthechannel · 17/02/2007 06:54
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