I think that's a little self serving, maybe. We have a lot of very lovely parents who bring their kids into my restaurant at 5:00 and I'm like, 'Do you want me to make the kids some noodles or something?' They're like, 'No, they eat what we eat.' If dinnertime is something that you really want them to like, there needs to be a concession, no pun intended, on everybody's part. I guess my point is that when you force children to do something, their immediate reaction is to push back. You can't make a pot of mac and cheese? Is it really that hard? Still, I know some parents are all 'I'm not going to make my kid a special dinner every night.' But it's instant mac and cheese. And when I say, 'No, I'm making a proper dinner and we're all going to sit around the table and eat it,' she eats it. She's having a portion with green vegetables and tomatoes and stuff like that. And it's not like she's plowing through boxes and boxes of it a night.
But no matter what my therapist says, I still feel weird about it sometimes.
