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Show Child's Verbal Battle mie both his appetite and his emotional development. Table quarreling spoils the meal for everyone. MANY parents feel mealtime meal-time is the one and only time they have their children captive cap-tive to dish out family rules and regulations. Parents often think of mealtime as the perfect per-fect hour to preach, teach, cor-rent, cor-rent, and assign weekly family tasks. The day's mistakes are aired and reviewed, judgments are made, and sentences): form of punishmentsorrp tions are given. Discip!i;; better administered at ike of the misbehavior.rather in retrospect at the dr table. By NANCY MOORE THURMOND THUR-MOND A child who is continually doing verbal battle at the table with his overly anxious pa rents feels pressure to eat because be-cause "it is good for him." He may be too tense to take the first bite. Problems aired at the table between family members only confuse a child and sty- |