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The nature of childhood is changing. The influences on children in the mid-1990s can scarcely be compared with the influences on their parents, when they were children. The word ‘computer’ was hardly in the dictionaries. The concept that ‘we are what we eat’ was a novelty. The family was a hierarchical structure, and not today’s more democratic unit. With each child is a new generation of parents, with new sets of circumstances. Each generation adapts, of course, to the pace of the times, and children react to those changes in their particular ways, and quickly.
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McNeal, J.U. (1900) Kids as Customers.
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Lang, S. (1997). Why tastes change. In: Smith, G. (eds) Children’s Food. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1115-7_4
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