over 30? you grew up eating what adults ate. now kids eat chickn fingers. pizza. mac n cheese

[Bettie]

29. Back in my day...Kids today....etc.

Same song every generation sings.

"Kids today" are going to hell in a handbasket for whatever reason.

"When I was a kid, not only did I walk twelve miles to school through waist deep snow, uphill both ways, but we only had gravel and grass to eat, and we were grateful for it. Oh, and there were only sticks to play with, and only really rich kids had sticks..."

In the end, just as always, some parents enforce very strict guidelines on their lives, some have none and most are in that middle ground where they are doing the best they can, with mixed results.

As a child in the 70's with two poor working (sometime) parents, we ate some homemade food, some boxed food. The only 'eating out' we could afford was McDonalds, so we got that sometimes too. I'm fortunate to be in the middle class and an at-home mother, so I can take more time with meals and such....and still they are kind of picky. They'll get better as they get older and their tastes mature.