Children and dinner

I am wondering what the norm is when you are invited to someone elses house for dinner or you invite people with children to yours. Does the host provide dinner for your child?

I ask because whenever we have friends and their children over we always cater for the children. We have several friends who when they invite us, Harper included, over for dinner they don't provide dinner for Harper and we take some along for him. They are parents themselves and most of our babies are similar ages to help get an idea of the scenario.

I'm not expecting that there is a right or wrong but I'm curious what the general expectation is? What do you do when you invite families with children over?

And also, do you eat dinner together at home? We do so that is perhaps the difference in our thinking.

I usually just find out whats going to be for dinner and decide whether or not my fuss pot would eat it, if it sounds like he may not eat it then we take along a couple of pieces of fruit to supplement whats on offer.

We eat together, well me and Daniel do and then DH eats when he gets home. But Daniel has turned from eating almost anything to eating virtually nothing for dinner

Hmm imo, I would always ask what the lil one likes if they are coming to ours. Umm when Lily is old enough we will all be eating at the table. When we go out I suppose I wouldn't expect them to make Lily something but then again would wonder...

When we invite our friends with kids over, I give them a general idea of what we're having for dinner, and ask if the kid will eat it, or if they want me to whip something else up? Often they'll bring a wee box with snacks etc in it to hold the kid off until dinner time.

We have one friend with a child with severe allergies and she always apologises and brings their own food for their kid, which I understand, cos I'm not used to having to read labels the way she does.

At the moment I don't expect anyone to feed my kid But when he's a bit older I think I'd be a bit disappointed that they wouldn't when they were feeding us!

Yup I've had friends and their kids for tea heaps.
I ask the parents what the kids like and give them that, one of the kids only wanted baked beans and coke.
I usually make it kid friendly though, I've made pizzas before ham and pineapple for the kids, chicken and camembert for us adults.
Oh and I've found oven chips a good stand by, as all kids will eat them.

Most of my friends have kids though and if they're coming I feed everyone.

At Hunter's age, yes I would expect them to provide dinner as they usually just eat 'normal' food anyway iykwim. When we have friends with kids over, we do something family friendly for everyone - spag bol, rice and stew, pizza.

It's different when they're babies, but not when they're toddlers!

perhaps their kids don't eat the same meals as the adults? odd that they just wouldn't give your kid the same dinner that they'd give theirs though....

The only person whose kid won't eat what we eat was my cousins kid when she was little she wouldn't eat anything but take aways or fried food.

I figure children are much the same as vegetarians I'd cater for them if they came for dinner.

I would expect to feed the children earlier and something a little more child appropriate. When I go out I tend to feed Caleb before we go then give him nibbles of whatever is going plus have a snack in my handbag for him, just because he gets fussy by the end of the day when he is tired.

We generally only go to family's house for tea so the kids are generally catered for, although I always ask what time we will be eating and if it is too late for the kids I will take something for them or raid Mum's pantry!

It is onlymy Bro and SIL that we have over that has a child and I make sure there is enough food for her although she still eats some mush (Ben is on BLW) so often SIL will bring mush for my niece and then she will have a munch on some of what we eat

We always have dinner together, although DH is sometimes a bit late so we will start without him