Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Kid's Health: Food Choices as a Family) where Aaron Hartman, MD and another speaker discuss the importance of parents presenting a united front on family food choices so children cannot exploit parental disagreement.
The goal is it has to be a family thing. And if my wife wasn't on board with that, that would not happen. The parents have to be together. They have to be a team, or the kids will divide and conquer. That's. That's for sure.
Oh, because they're brilliant, right? We're always like, we hope to have brilliant children. Well, yeah, when they're brilliant, they figure out the system and they. I know people don't like the word. They manipulate the system. And I mean that in the nicest way because we manipulate our environment. We do what we need to do to get what we want. There's nothing wrong with that. I always applaud children like, good job. Yay. This is their job is to push limits. And if we're divided, they know they'll.