Reply #5: There are limits

[theredpen]

I remember one particular dinner with some parents and their 2-year-old. Great kid, love him to death, but he started flinging food. They managed to get him to cut it, but they had to be firm. They were embarrassed (although they need not have been — I understood that kids can be unruly). It sounds like the parents in this story weren't paying attention. If they kids had been left unattended, I can see that, but they weren't.