Three generations ago, people just did not question that a mother knew exactly how much a child should eat, in advance of the meal. How many millions of children were forced to sit for an hour or two at the dinner table “until you clean your plate”? Stupid. People put themselves and their children through so much misery, without ever giving their stupid assumptions a moment’s thought.
I sat for 3 hours because I would gag on spinach. When I went to Girl Scout camp, they served plain spinach and I liked it. It turned out that it wasn’t the spinach, it was my Mother’s recipe sauce. It was a Miracle Whip concoction that gagged me, not the spinach itself.