That 'Potato Pay' commercial: Dietary Child Abuse?

Have you seen that ‘Potato Pay’ commercial that shows a parent trying to get a child to ‘clean her plate’ by offering a bribe of French fries? I can’t imagine anything more likely to harm children than the practices encouraged in that commercial. The most common ‘vegetable’ offered young kids is already French fries, do they really need more? Cutting the ‘crappy carbage’ (junk-food carbohydrates) out of children’s diets is needed, not teaching them that a particularly bad and unhealthy carb is a ‘reward’ for eating other foods. Here is what is wrong with the commercial:

1. Potatoes are starchy, unhealthy carbs, and French fries are concentrated bad carbs. A baked potato is about 33 grams of carbs— in other words, more than you should eat in a day, on keto, even if no other carbs are eaten. What about French fries? I used to make home-made French fries— I would cut up 2 to 3 potatoes to make enough French fries for one serving. Making potatoes into French fries concentrates the bad carbs and helps you eat more carbs as a serving. Could you really eat 2 to 3 baked potatoes at supper? Could your children? But it’s not tough to eat 2-3 potatoes worth of French fries and want more.
2. It assumes that the food that parents want kids to eat— vegetables?— are not tasty and have to be forced down. This is often the result of families who don’t know how to cook vegetables, or who fear that adding a tasty sauce to the vegetables is somehow not good. If you cook it right, vegetables can be a favorite food!
3. It assumes parents must enforce the ‘clean plate club.’ The idea of parents compelling their children to ‘clean their plates’ comes from the days before processed foods and snack foods were kept in every home. Food had to be cooked, and anyone, child or adult, who didn’t eat a meal would have to go hungry until the next meal. Some parents would go beyond urging their children to eat while the food was there, and actually punish children for not ‘cleaning their plate.’ I remember sitting in front of a plate of cooling food for what seemed like hours, because I had to stay at the table until I cleaned my plate, and I wasn’t going to eat some of the things on my plate, so there was a stalemate. The problem with the ‘clean plate club’ is that it encourages children to eat— perhaps to eat a great quantity— when they are not hungry, and to eat unappetizing or horrible foods in order to be seen as ‘good.’ 
4. It may assume the constant-snacking culture as OK for kids. Why do parents still enforce the clean-plate club today? Most parents don’t cook, and most homes contain ready-to-eat processed foods. If any nutritious foods are provided in the home, they are usually part of a meal. But children who snack between meals may not be hungry at meals. In the old days, parents could allow their kids to eat little at one meal, knowing they would be more hungry at the next. But in modern times, kids who don’t eat much at a meal will snack afterwards, and might never be hungry enough to address a healthy food item, since they can always snack on something full of carbs and sugars later. So parents unwisely try to force children to clean their plates in order to get some healthy eating in there.
5. It may be trying to counteract the knowledge that potatoes are not ‘vegetables’ in the way non-starchy vegetables are. In the past, some parents thought that because potatoes come from a plant, potatoes in any form were ‘vegetables’ in the same way that broccoli, cabbage and turnips are. So they were interchangeable items on the family’s dinner plates. And of course children liked French fries better than tasteless, overcooked cabbage. But now some parents are aware of the benefits of low-carb eating, and might avoid using potatoes as a vegetable-substitute. So— use them as a food-bribe. 
6. Overall, the ‘potato-pay’ concept adds to the problem of childhood obesity. We now know that overweight is not caused by people being ‘bad’ and eating ‘too much.’ It is all about insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, and these problems seem to be increasing at the same time people are adopting ever more carb-heavy diets. Children need to learn how to eat lower-carb foods. They need to learn to eat when they are hungry and not-eat when they feel ‘full’, satisfied or satiated. They need to be more in touch with what their bodies are asking for, not more obedient to what their nervous and perhaps ill-informed parents might want them to eat. Bribing children to eat— something— with a few morsels of junk food is no substitute for adopting a family-wide healthy (and low-carb) diet. Don’t be fooled. 

Questions: When you were a child, did your parents try to get you to 'clean your plate?' Did that practice affect your adult eating habits? Positively or negatively? Do you ever have the feeling that you need to be 'rewarded' for sticking to your keto diet by a high-carb food? Are there any keto-acceptable foods that feel like a reward to you?

Keto Comfort Food by Maria Emmerich
I have not yet bought this particular Maria Emmerich book as I am on disability with limited funds, but I have another cook-book by the author and am sure that this one will help you feed your children or your Inner Child better than the Potato-Pay concept will.