Henry flips through a treatise on Leonardo da Vinci while his older brother ponders math.
In other news, one of the boys didn’t appreciate the delicious meal of barbecue pork I served for dinner tonight.
Me, eyeing his untouched plate: Are you not hungry?
Him: I don’t really like this.
Me: Okay, you don’t have to eat that.
Him: You mean, if I want something else *I* have to get it?
Me: Um, if you want something else, you have wait til next time.
LOL!
Awesome!
This is cute. Thanks for sharing. I wrote about a "No Complaints" dinner time and all that it involves in the "L.I.F.E Tips: #1" entry of my blog.
Same rule at our house! You don't have to eat anything you don't like. Next meal is breakfast.
As a good friend says, "Hunger makes an excellent sauce."
When I was growing up, we had to try something before we turned it up. If we genuinely couldn't stomach it (I had and still have a bad gag reflex, can't even eat cottage cheese) we didn't have to eat it and could have something else. Usually I ended up liking it.
However, if we turned our nose up at something that we knew, we didn't get anything else.