You can nurture you children to "become individuals with their own personal likes and dislike" without catering to their every desire and making them think they are entitled to have Mom make them special dinners becuase they don't want what she prepared for the family. IF you want, you can also raise your kids to think they are entitled to get what they want all the time.
Great thing about having kids, you can raise them however you would like .... but like all choices in life, you also must deal with the consequences of what you raised.
Quoted from zermeno68:Agree, but lets not forget that Grandma/Grandpa can also influence this habit as well. My kids are staying with my parents during the summer to spend some quality time while the Wife and I acclimate with Baby #3 we just had.
I facetime my family the other day to check on the kids and I heard my oldest say she does not want to eat X, but rather have Y.
And.... my mom caved in. I'm sure it will be fun for me to break the habit when they return to my home.
Yes, but even young kids are smart enough to know there are 2 sets of rules and what flies at the grandparents house may not pass at home.