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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/walkingdownthegay on 2023-09-24 05:15:26.
I’m 18f, I have a 3 year old son. I still live at home with my parents and younger sister, Jen, who is 15.
Anyone who’s ever sat down to eat a meal with a toddler knows they take two bites of food and decide their full but will want half of literally anyone else’s plate. This resulted in me throwing out a lot of food every since day, even though he’d eat half my plate.
I tried putting both our portions on the same plate and he then didn’t want it, so I started only cooking for “myself”, ie, my portion only, and he started eating, so now when I’m cooking for us, I only make one portion of everything and I pretend it’s all mine.
My sister doesn’t like this. She says it’s stupid and lying to kids is wrong, and that he’ll eat if he’s hungry so I should stop warping his habits now while he’s only small. I told her she doesn’t know jack shit about toddler. She told our parents, who previously never paid much attention and now they both make us sit at the table and have dinner with them, which he of course only takes two bites of and they give out to me when I start to give him mine instead. They said they’re going to do this until I start cooking for both of us
AITA for never cooking for my son and instead just myself?