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Nobody wins at the dinner table
One parent's honest take on picky eating, the plain pasta backup plan, and why a meal is an atmosphere before it's a meal
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Yvo
Founder, Parents4Parents · May 2, 2026 · 5 min read
I spent about forty minutes on that meal.
Put the plate down. He looked at it the way a food critic looks at something they’ve already decided to dismiss. And then, with complete conviction: “I don’t like it.”
He hadn’t tasted it. Hadn’t touched it. Hadn’t even really looked at it. He’d just decided.