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Old May 10th 05, 11:36 PM
Kevin Karplus
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On 2005-05-10, Nikki wrote:
I do have a rule that once you leave, your meal is over.


If we had this rule, my son would use it almost every day to skip dinner.
Food does not motivate him!

We do require him to stay at the table until he has tasted each of the
dishes (we don't require him to eat everything, just taste), and he
has to ask politely to be excused from the table. We started those
rules around age 5, if I remember right.

The other dinner rule is "no reading". (We have an exception for
reading aloud something to share with the family.) This rule has been
hard on him (and on me), since our natural inclination is to read
while we eat, but it has helped us have conversations at dinner.

Reading is ok at breakfast and lunch, just not the evening meal.
For breakfast and sometimes for lunch, he uses a cookbook holder to
hold the book and protect it from food splashes.



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