@fesshole is this an American thing? So you leave all the kids to eat SPAGHETTI, together, totally unsupervised?? That seems like a bad idea.
Besides, kids deserve yummy or new food experiences too! Dietary requirements allowing.
I'm child free by choice, but I love having kids at the table. Ask a kid their favourite dinosaur/extant animal/pokemon and you'll have no more awkward breaks in the convo for an hour 😆