Stop controlling your kids mind!

I had a party and my sister asked what I was making ahead of time because her kids are picky. I told her I was making frito pie (chili with frito chips) and that I had some frozen mini corn dogs and little frozen pizzas that I could just put in the oven for her kids. She says okay.

So party day arrives and I wasn’t putting the dessert out until it was time to actually eat it cause I knew all the kids would just want that. Well, she came up to me asking where I had the cookies cause her kids were hungry. I told her where they were and that we were literally about to put the food out. While she’s going to get cookies my nephew (5) comes up to me and ask what I was making, I told him chili and he said he wanted some. So my sister comes back and I tell her he wants some. She says he just wants the frito chips but I can “waste a bowl of chili” if I want to. I grab a bowl and fill it half way and put it in front of my nephew and put the chips on the side. Both my nephew and my niece (2) dig in. My sister was somewhere else but I stayed sitting with my youngest nephew and the other kids. My sister comes back and sees her kids happily eating and says “are you sure you like that?” My nephew says yes and my niece is saying “more more more.” I start to get up to get them another helping cause they’re almost done. And my sister keeps asking “are you sure you like it? You wouldn’t rather pizza or a cookie or something?” I was confused because her kids obviously liked the chili and she was making a big deal out of nothing. But she still kept saying the same things over and over. Finally my nephew said “no I don’t like it I want pizza” so my sister smirks at me and says “I told you he doesn’t like it” and goes off to get a pizza. I just leave the table cause I still had to feed my own son (almost 2) and yes I gave him chili and he loved it.

A little while later my nephew comes up to me and asked for a bite of my food, which is the chili. He told me he wants to eat it but his mom keeps telling him to eat pizza. He has no allergies and no food messes him up so I have no clue why she wouldn’t let him have the chili but I felt so sorry for him. She’s always been like that. She always says “they don’t like that” but then my nephew tells me the opposite or says he never tried it before and says he doesn’t like it cause “mommy says I don’t.” 🤦🏻‍♀️