I often gave mac 2-3 choices for dinner and if he refused all he could get himself cold cereal or fruit, but that was at age 6 and older.
Darn your sinister attraction!
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Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Oct 19, 2018 10:47:08 am PDT #917 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Toddson - Oct 19, 2018 11:05:16 am PDT #918 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
For those looking to dress for the season, I saw a dress in the window of the local H&M. It's a black t-shirt type dress, with long sleeves, and it had a skeleton painted on it (ribs, spine, pelvis arm bones, thigh bones since it was knee length) with flowers painted on the bones, kind of Day of the Dead sugar skull type decoration (although no actual skull).
sj - Oct 19, 2018 11:30:10 am PDT #919 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
My mother would often offer me cereal if I didn't eat, and then my grandparents would ruin it by coming over and making me a frittata. ltc would choose cereal every time, so I'm hesitant to start that at this age. I read somewhere that some kids need to try things 20 times before they develop a taste for it. So, I make her at least try everything on the plate.
Connie Neil - Oct 19, 2018 12:04:37 pm PDT #920 of 30019
brillig
My mother tried the "Try everything on your plate" thing with me. I'd smell it and say no. She'd insist. I'd go on a hunger strike. She'd serve it to me every dinner until it went moldy.
May you not have a kid like me.
sj - Oct 19, 2018 12:13:57 pm PDT #921 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
She can't have her slice of bread or her "dessert" (a piece of fruit) if she hasn't tried everything. So far it works.
Connie Neil - Oct 19, 2018 12:26:07 pm PDT #922 of 30019
brillig
Dessert was a small price to pay for the righteousness of my cause to never consume creamed corn.l
sj - Oct 19, 2018 12:58:32 pm PDT #923 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I was the same way, Connie, but at least for now ltc is using her stubborness in other areas.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2018 1:03:47 pm PDT #924 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I could yell at people about the flu on Twitter, but instead I'm going to attend a talk on what's on my San Francisco ballot so I know how to vote on all these propositions.
I think it's just No on 5, 6, and 11.
Jesse - Oct 19, 2018 1:25:29 pm PDT #925 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, you parents will appreciate this: on the train the other day, there was a woman with a toddler, and another woman struck up conversation. Her child was some amount younger than the kid on the train. The first woman said (not so the kid could hear), "Oh, is he still sweet, or has he become an asshole? Because this one...."
sj - Oct 19, 2018 1:32:02 pm PDT #926 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ha! Toddlers are little assholes.
ltc was such a ridiculously easy and joyful infant that I was in no way prepared for what was to come.