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"AITA for telling my brother to feed his kids beforehand instead of catering to their picky eating?"
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One man learned this the hard way when his brother’s ultra-picky kids started treating his wife’s lovingly prepared meals like a personal insult. The tension between their parenting styles—his brother’s "just feed them what they’ll eat" approach versus his wife’s passion for real cooking—boiled over when he suggested they solve the problem by feeding the kids ahead of time. Turns out, nothing says “family” quite like a perfectly good roast getting caught in the crossfire of parenting differences and unspoken grievances.
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" they’ll only eat plain pasta, chicken nuggets, or grilled cheese."
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They won’t even try homemade mac and cheese because "it’s not the box kind."
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Man demands brother feed his picky-eater children before family dinners after they refuse every meal, constantly insult his wife: ‘I told him we weren’t running a short-order kitchen and that my wife puts effort into these meals. He ended up not coming’
Family dinners are a strange ritual. In theory, they're about bonding, sharing a meal, you know breaking bread, but in practice, they often end up breaking your patience instead. an elaborate test of tolerance. Behind every plate of home-cooked food lurks an unspoken social hierarchy of who gets to make demands and who has to bend over backwards to meet them. Hosting is, more often than not, not just hosting—it's an unpaid gig where you're expected to whip up magic while juggling everyone's endless preferences, complaints, and "little quirks." Someone can't eat gluten, someone else hates vegetables, and at least one person will casually insult the food before asking for seconds. It's a delicate balancing act, and when kids enter the picture, balancing turns into outright chaos.
Some children aren't just picky eaters—they're little ambassadors of their parents' values and routines. One family's table manners are another family's table-side terror. These differences in educating styles can turn shared meals into battlegrounds of parenting philosophies.
Some parents choose the "eat what's served" school of thought, while others let their kids dictate menus with a boxed mac-and-cheese iron fist.
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