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.
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
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."
Connie Neil - Oct 19, 2018 12:04:37 pm PDT #920 of 30019
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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
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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.
Sheryl - Oct 19, 2018 5:58:00 pm PDT #927 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
We are at OVFF. The trip here wasn't too bad.
There is a book called "Toddlers are assholes". I know this because my MIL gave it to us.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2018 6:03:22 pm PDT #928 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
ltc was such a ridiculously easy and joyful infant that I was in no way prepared for what was to come.
Emmett was neither an easy infant, nor an easy toddler. However, about age 4 when reason arrived he started an ascending path of Betterness which continues to this day.