[o11c]

I can only second the blog comment about children.

Particularly, children do not know how to recognize and/or express things like "this is setting off my allergies" or "my genes make me able to taste this where you can't taste it at all", let alone actual age-based differences (fun fact: if you tell parents that their children just had a lot of sugar, they will judge them to be more hyperactive).

[mbg721]

I've had good luck serving basically the same dish I'm making for the grown-ups, but keeping the elements separate for their portion. No living on pizza and chicken fingers for every meal, and they at least need to try a little bite of everything, but I'm sympathetic that their palate for spicy mushroom gravy is a couple decades behind mine.