In a recent post, I casually dropped a reference to the classic childhood memory of being told to clean your plate because children are starving in _____ (fill in with the typical, not-always-accurate-but-usually-far-away, place.) By the way, do parents still say this these days?
I realized after reading the comments in that post that I didn’t fully express my thoughts about this tactic to get kids to eat their dinner. Like most of the commenters, I’m not in favor of it, and have had to work at undoing the habit of cleaning my plate in my own life.