I think the best thing you can do for a kid is to let him or her have some self-determinism.
It really isn't the end of world if the kid doesn't like liver (hell. I don't like liver either). To enforce that a child eat what you serve him/her is to rob him of his self determinism over his body.
On the other hand if a child is sick because of not eating the proper nutrients, or needs medicine or a transfusion etc. to not enforce that he/she get what he needs because "he is upset about it" is crazy as it will harm the child.
This requires judgment, but I always try to let people have as much freedom as they can have within the bounds of safety.
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