With my kids, we're pretty clear with them beforehand that desert is fine, but they have to eat their supper first....for our kids, that works pretty well. Our youngest will usually eat about half of her supper and then want desert....but once we say not until she eats her supper, she finishes it off.
Only a few times has one of the little ones had to sit there with cold food in front of them while the others ate desert.
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