Nothing green,no onions and no mushrooms

It was,of course, very difficult to please the younger crowd of eaters at our dinner table.My son refused to eat anything green.That made salads and most  green vegetables off limits for him.My daughter,to this day won't eat mushrooms or onions. I served peas with carrots frequently and used onion powder in things like meatloaf and meat dishes that required cooked onions .I told my daughter she just could pick the mushrooms out of her chicken Marsala. The point here is that the cook has to make some accommodation for her childrens' current tastes.It is really tough to have a pleasant reunion at the daily dinner table when there were too many things your child wouldn't eat.I know this flies in the face of the kind of discipline many of us faced at our dinner tables when we were young.Who doesn't remember old adages like "there are starving children in ----- who have nothing to eat.They would be grateful to have the food you have." Or perhaps this threat,"You will sit at the table until your plate is clean".I disagree with this philosophy. A dinner table that becomes a
battleground is not a happy place.The whole idea here is to bring a family together to share and communicate with each other. accommodating different tastes is a small price to pay.