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Should parents force kids to attend when it comes to dinner time?

The argument to that you should force them go something like this. If our kids

don't sit down for dinner with us, how else are we going to have family time and bond? Have you found

this to be the case when it comes to dinner time? Is force more appropriate when they're younger

below two compared to when they're older or does it more or less, more or less doesn't it matter?

No, you don't use force in your relationships and in particular you don't use force in unchosen relationships, right?

You don't use force in your relationships. I'm sorry, I hate to be like, well, non-aggression

principle, but yeah, you don't use force in your relationships.

Now, people will say, oh, but your kids want candy and you don't give them candy, well,

that's not using force.

And it's not force if later on people thank you, right?

So if there's a blind guy about to wander into traffic and you grab him and pull him back, you know, he would be upset until he realized that you just saved him from

wandering into traffic. And so then he would say, I approve your action in hindsight, right?

So if you keep your kids from eating candy all the time, and as a result, they don't

have diabetes, they're not obese, and they get to keep their teeth, then as adults, they will

thank you for that, right? So you can get permission after the fact for things, right? Like, I mean,

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