ABSTRACT
By the age of four or five, children have long since outgrown their infant diet and are tackling a wide range of foods. Already, the ways in which four- and five-year-olds interact with food and drink are starting to fall into individual patterns. Yet by the time they are ready to go to school, children have already absorbed far more from their families than simply their food and drink preferences. If birth is the first migration then, for many children, beginning school is the second. When the new stage brings us into contact with new people, and wider horizons, there are different people around to notice our behaviour, and to react with fresh alarm or concern to the things that others have learned to adapt to and even condone. The same thing will happen again as begin high school - and as they leave it.
