While kids are still little, parents make food choices on their behalf (adhering to recommended guidelines, of course) since they aren’t yet capable of doing it themselves. But as they grow up, they start voicing preferences on what they’d like to eat. When that happens, parents need to decide whether to give them the freedom to enjoy the food they want or try to impose some mandatory rules to maintain their diet at least somewhat healthy.
Since this mom was a vegetarian, she chose to enforce the same eating habits on her children. Even when her son came to her, admitting he wanted to eat meat, she forbade him from doing it. However, her husband supported the child’s choice, which seemed to upset the wife even more.
