Parents seem to always be worrying about their children’s nutrition, and they want to make sure that their kids never feel hungry. Pushing children to eat all the food on their plates can lead to negative consequences for their health.

This instills an irrational need to clear your plate, even if you’re full, and then we wonder why they struggle with weight later, only for you to suddenly flip it and try to teach them the opposite. Why are we waiting until well into adulthood when habits are already ingrained to say, “Hey, it’s actually healthier if you stop when you’re full”?
And also, I know that kids sometimes blow smoke, claiming they don’t like a food when they’ve never actually tried it. That’s not what I’m talking about. I mean, stop forcing kids to eat foods that you know they hate. If you know they hate carrots, you can’t get mad when you cook carrots anyway, and they don’t want to eat them. © AriSpice / Reddit
My parents did this, but used portion sizes big enough to feed a family of 4 on a single plate. Guess who was a morbidly obese kid, and now has to drop all that weight as an adult? If your kids are not hungry, they are not hungry. © ImSoSpiffy / Reddit

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