How these TikTok parents get their kids to eat dinner in viral hack is pure genius

By Genevieve Shaw Brown

Parents of picky eaters, this hack's for you.

TikTok user Darin Nicole posted the most straightforward tip for getting her kids to eat what's on their plate: "No options in our home."

Can the kids have cupcakes? Cookies? Sure they can -- the parents sure do, but only after their "plates are empty."

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No options in our home #parenting #momlife #parentinghack #parenting101

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Here's how it works. Dinner is served. The kids may eat it or not. But the plate stays on the counter until they go to sleep. "That's how it works in our house," Darin Nicole said in the viral video.

"Whenever we get an 'I'm hungry,' they [need to] eat their food that they didn't finish at the table," the parents said in the video.

So that means dinner might become a late-night snack. And that's just fine by this mom.