But also, I don't think I was ever regularly at someone's house in the afternoon without being offered snacks? And it went both ways. Kids... eat... snacks...? Pretty sure they haven't evolved beyond it in the last twenty years
This... is not universal.
I have ONE memory of being offered a snack while playing at another kid's house. [I am excluding birthday parties, which usually had food]
And that one time the snack was chocolate flavoured milk, and the mother glared at me that I'd helped myself to too big a chocolate milk drink. (She told us we could have one glass, so I picked the biggest glass that was in the cupboard.)
The norm when I was growing up was that if kid-who-is-not-yours was hungry, it was obviously time for kid-who-is-not-yours to go home...
I never got the vibe that it was due to food insecurity - these were well off parents - just that they didn't want to be bothered with the fuss...
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This... is not universal.
I have ONE memory of being offered a snack while playing at another kid's house. [I am excluding birthday parties, which usually had food]
And that one time the snack was chocolate flavoured milk, and the mother glared at me that I'd helped myself to too big a chocolate milk drink. (She told us we could have one glass, so I picked the biggest glass that was in the cupboard.)
The norm when I was growing up was that if kid-who-is-not-yours was hungry, it was obviously time for kid-who-is-not-yours to go home...
I never got the vibe that it was due to food insecurity - these were well off parents - just that they didn't want to be bothered with the fuss...