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Food and eating

Dinner drags on and on

The problem The table battle goes 90 minutes.

The hack Set a visible "kitchen closes" time of 20 minutes and tell them once. When the timer rings, the plate is cleared with no scolding. Hungry kids eat faster next time and dinner stops being a power struggle.

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