Cold Culture Eating: Why eating at the table together isn’t happening for some American kids, and Seven Tips to Warming Up the Culture at Your Table
A recent “Zits” comic shows Jeremy pointing his cell phone at the steaming dish his mom is holding, while she asks him, “Do you think Pierce would like to stay for dinner?”
We then see Jeremy sending the photo to Pierce, who responds to the photo–and to the invitation–with “EWW!”
“No,” Jeremy replies. “ Pierce hates meatloaf.”
We had a similar experience when my daughter’s friend was hanging around right before dinner one night. To my invitation to join us at the table, her answer was, “What is it?”
She needed a description of all offerings, then decided she could eat one of the three available. So she joined us.
Many times, children have come to our table and thought nothing of openly turning up their little noses at everything that was served. Expressing distaste at what’s been served is clearly…
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