Growing up everyone who was home ate at the table as a family. We weren't allowed soda until we got a job and paid for it our selves. The drink choices were water, milk or apple juice. When were were little everyone had to stay at the table until everyone was done but my sister would refuse to eat and we would be sitting there for an hour and a half. Finally my parents gave that rule up. She learend to eat real fast when it was 2 hours after dinner and she was the only one at the table while the rest of us had dessert, watched tv, played a game, ect. You had take two bites out of everything.
Now with my own family we eat at the table but do sometimes as a treat eat on the couch. The kids think its the coolest thing in the world when we do this. A few times we even took a blanket out and spread it on the floor and had a panic in our own living room. They need to take two bites out of everything on their plate. We try to not force them to eat something they don't like but they most try it. At this age we're not really worried about them eating everything on their plate. If they are full then they can be done but they can't leave unless they ask.
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