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Wedding Woes
hmonkey
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wdyd?
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you are a child, grade school age. you are attending a dinner party with your parents. there is a buffet.
do you serve yourself, or do your parents serve you?
if you serve yourself, do you try new things?
if your parents serve you, do you tell them what you want to eat?
what would you do if you were the parent?
do you serve yourself, or do your parents serve you?
if you serve yourself, do you try new things?
if your parents serve you, do you tell them what you want to eat?
what would you do if you were the parent?
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Re: wdyd?
I think by 6th grade I would stand next to them in the line making sure they weren't making a mess, and wasting food, but they would fix their own plate.
Crap...I Mean Crafts
I'd like to avoid a buffet at all costs, but I'd probably make 6let's plate for awhile. Again it's faster and more sanitary (my kid is DIRTY). I'd let him pick (make him pick) some new things to take a few bites of. I'd also make sure there were enough things I know he'd like.
from where i cheat -- a hostess wrote in to complain about kids at her dinner party. in some cases, parents were using her dinner party as a way to introduce their kids to new foods. that's fine, but she was a little surprised to see caviar and blinis on a kid's plate, knowing that the food would either be wasted or picked at.
there's also the separate issue of a parent piling adult portions on a child's plate, but to me, that's no different than anyone taking more food than they are going to eat, knowingly or not.
is it terrible to make a separate kid's meal and limit the kids choices to that?
it's just that in this day and age, i just see parents freaking out over someone else giving their little angel eating hfcs or boxed mac and cheese.
[QUOTE]boohoo, just don't invite kids to your dinner parties, or don't serve caviar and blini at a dinner party with kids. adurr.
Posted by Cant_wait![/QUOTE]
^^^this<div>
</div><div>I would make a plate for the kid with small portions of a variety of things, if they were not old enough to serve themselves. If old enough to serve themselves, I would let them pick what they wanted within reason. </div>
That being said - At the most recent conference I attended, the lunch meal for adults was chix parm, veggies, and rice. They made a seperate lunch for the "children" (I use quotes because children up to the age of 18 were eating this meal) of mac n cheese and chicken fingers. Both are fried chicken and carbs. I think all of the children should have been served smaller verions of the adult meal. But that is just me.
i assume hostess knows this kid. or she serves really awful caviar.
i don't think it's terrible to limit a kid's choices, and i just don't see that happening in a buffet -- there are other choices there.
Also, I'd probably give my kid a taste of caviar if it were available at a party.
Crap...I Mean Crafts
I was always like, "Mama Ruby that's mine, and I am coming back, promise."
::shoves a snack pac to the monkey::
This event wasn't a buffet lunch. However, there were seperate snack buffets. The adults got brownies and cookies and the kids got goldfish - a total rip off for them. I didn't understand this.
[QUOTE]I'm with CW. What kind of Laurentian serves caviar at a party that kids are attending? If you plan the menu with consideration to the people actually attending, you don't have this problem. Also, I'd probably give my kid a taste of caviar if it were available at a party.
Posted by TheDuckis[/QUOTE]
ftr, I love your use of Laurentian. My favorite.
Posted by Cant_wait![/QUOTE]
i forgot to add this too! gold star for td. that heffa will never not be hilariously ridiculous.