Should You Let Your Child Go Hungry If They Refuse Dinner? The Nightmare of Food and Fussy Eaters

Not In Front of the Kids · Jul 9, 2026 · 49m

Nathan's clothes have been sat in the same pile for a week, the Kärcher is still blocking the kitchen, and apparently cleaning the car is now a love language. Is there really such a thing as men's jobs and women's jobs, or is someone just getting away with doing less?

Then it's onto one of parenting's biggest battlegrounds – food.

Should children eat what's put in front of them, or are parents making life harder by cooking three different dinners every night? Are fussy eaters born that way, or are they created? Is it cruel to send your child to school hungry because they refused breakfast, or…