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Re:Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ic... by war1025 on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:20PM (#25689894)
The trouble we run into is if you try to call their bluff and make them wait it out until they are actually hungry, suddenly it's bedtime and you have a kid who won't go to sleep because they didn't eat anything, and it stops being their problem and turns into a massive inconvenience for you.

But probably the better idea would just be for us to ration snacks more closely throughout the middle of the day.

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Re:Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ic... by cosmodisk on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:35PM (#25691420)
This 100% the situation we have with our almost 4 year old daughter. My wife has a soft spot,so any cries would make her surrender in a second,so it's very easy for our daughter to just walk away from a really nice meal because it's not ' what she likes' and then keep coming back for all sorts of snacks or the food she really likes.
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Re:Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ic... by abfan1127 on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:55PM (#25691593)
we ration snacks and provide meals with lasting hunger satiation (no cereal!).
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