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To add some context, it is perfectly acceptable in Swedish culture to have a friend of your child's over for a playdate, and NOT serve them dinner during dinner
by 4gotunameagain 2y ago
To add some context, it is perfectly acceptable in Swedish culture to have a friend of your child's over for a playdate, and NOT serve them dinner during dinner time.
Instead, the child is playing alone in the room while the family eats their dinner.
- brnt 2y agoWot? Why? Isn't the kid hungry too? Isn't mealtime social time in Sweden?
- Gud 2y agoBecause their parents have made food for their children.
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoEven if that is the case, which is not necessarily, in most cultures it would be unacceptable to not have the child join the family. Keep in mind that this is not judgement, just a window into how different Swedish culture can sometimes be.
- piva00 2y agoAre you just repeating a thread that went viral on reddit or have you had personal experience with this? Because after that reddit post I asked all of my Swedish friends who are parents, none of them said it'd be normal to not serve dinner to their kids playdates. And I don't think anyone said it's happened to them when they were kids either.
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoI lived in the Nordics for many years, and I have interacted with plenty Swedish people. It is definitely not the norm, but it is definitely a wide spread phenomenon. Or at least it used to be more prevalent, as my sampling has an age bias. A quick duckduckgoing supports their claims: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/swedengate-sweden-dinner-guests-food-b2091012.html https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/swedengate-sweden-dinne... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/world/europe/sweden-feeding-guests-dinner.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/world/europe/sweden-feedi... https://www.thelocal.se/20220530/fact-check-do-swedish-parents-really-not-feed-kids-on-playdates https://www.thelocal.se/20220530/fact-check-do-swedish-paren...