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by cristnalyn on February 22nd, 2007

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Do you think it is right to force a child to sit there and finish everything on their plate?

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  • by FLYxNIGHT on February 22nd, 2007

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    I don't think so at all. Most children are not serving themselves, and therefore cannot exert any control over their portions. The body has a way of telling itself when enough is enough in regards to food, and that is when it is no longer hungry.

    I don't know when this tradition started; I know it was big during the implementation of the Marshall Plan. But whenever it started, teaching someone to continue eating when they are full is pointing them on a lifelong path toward obesity.

    Especially in a day and age when most parents are unable to pry their children away from electronic entertainment and get them to play outside like in the good old days, forcing a child to finish what they did not ask for is a recipe for disaster, and likely one of the contributing factors in the national weight problem the US has today.

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