The 5 year old I nanny for (who has mild autism but can still clearly communicate and understand everything) has a habit of asking me for a certain food and then, after it's already made, deciding he doesn't want what he asked me for so he'll refuse to eat it and ask for something else. Not only is this incredibly wasteful, it's just plain annoying, so I generally just put the food he asked for in the fridge and that's what he can have to eat if he's hungry. I'm happy to make him the other thing he want after but he has to eat what he originally asked me for first.
I feel kinda bad about it when he winds up not eating for awhile (a few hours nothing major) but at the same time I feel like most parents I know would do this. I probably only feel weird about it because it's not my kid. I'm not being overly "mean" or stubborn about it, am I?
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