Perhaps your parents or grandparents had different approaches to raising children than you are using in bringing up your own children. These weren’t necessarily bad means of parenting — but different because they reflected cultural values that have changed over the generations. Much has changed in the long human history of parenting. And a lot hasn’t changed at all. I think that you’ll see that
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I've made a lot of bad rules in the decade I've been a mom, from irrational threats ("No graham crackers in the house ever again if you eat them in the living room even one more time") to forbidding human nature ("You may not fight with your sister").
Anyone who's tried to force an unwilling baby to "please, just eat one pea" knows that a parent's nutritional responsibilities are difficult to uphold. Time and again, we find that mealtime deteriorates into predictable conflicts, so we devised the following eight strategies to help you tackle the most common childhood feeding dilemmas. May they help you keep the peas... off the floor.
