Those arduous few minutes
Monday, September 24, 2007 at 11:16PM It is a daily ritual now.
We wake up early in the morning, brush our teeth and start praying to the god of Cheerios!
Swallow, chomp, bite, chew, fast, quickly, we are late, let's call her teacher on the phone, you are going to the street, please, vaayila kozhakaataiya irukku (do you have dumplings in your mouth), etc. etc. in every permutation and combination you can think of!
All to get a 100 or so honey nut cheerios into that little mouth and make sure they continue their one way trip to Jr.'s stomach. Sometimes, they get a free return ticket when Jr. feels double or triple or quadruple teamed (these days even the little one chimes in with "eat", "eat"!)
We are now switching to honey bunches of oats, idly's, dosai's.. etc.. But at the end of the day, the pushing food into the mouth routine continues..
A picture is worth a 1000 words. This one is worth about 73 cheerios!
Do you see the pain in her face? All that suffering! Oh, the humanity! We should be insane to put food into a little girl! What are we thinking?
After a 40-50 minute session of cheerios pushing, we all smile and she races to school with either Mommy or Daddy.
Maybe I should liquify the Cheerios and make her drink it with milk?
Maybe I should invent a system that lets her stomach absorb food through her skin. I could tie a cheerios pack around her stomach as soon as she wakes up, and it would slowly infuse the cheerios into her stomach by lunch break!
These days they are coming up with medicine patches that send medicine through the skin. So why not breakfast? I am hereby laying claim to the food patch for difficult kids!
If anyone actually succeeds at this, please send me a check.. or at least a few free samples!
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Reader Comments (12)
hehehe she looks tortured - it seems i never ate as a child - i ate nothing - i lived on liquid till i was 6 or something ;p
u know the trick is to show them images of africa - torture them mentally or perhaps dont bother about food on a weekend just ignore her - should work unless shes as stuborn as me la ;p
Hey we have the same routine at our house. Feeding these kids is the most difficult task. I believe we were not so tough on food. The best way to make Siddharth finish his breakfast is with watching Tom and Jerry, but that's the part of breakfast now... Good Luck!
Some people are just not breakfast people - took me until adulthood to be able to eat breakfast before 11 AM. ;)
Just make sure there's nothing bothering her at school (making her lose her appetite).
I know - not to make you have another parental worry - just a thought.
Seriously - with the inventions - you seem to have enough ideas in that head of yours to become a billionaire... ;)
Sundar, a post for you http://yetanotherbystander.blogspot.com/2007/09/theory-of-origin-of-this-blog.html" REL="nofollow"> here
when I was six, I went on my first visit to India and have to say I pretty much lived on Pepsi the entire month. The server's in the hotel's started to worry about me, offering me a variety of options try to come up with something that would be similar to my Sri-lankan tamil food that I was used to.
Might I suggest things that she likes and trying to entice her with that. As a kid I hated cerial, still do.
I always preferred varieties, fruits, cheese, kids yogurt, iddiyappam and thenga paazh...
Good luck.
cerial? wow, I can't even spell that!
The way you described it and the photo is so funny! My kids are like that too, particularly with milk. Can entirely relate with you in this matter.
Hehehe, Kids are the same everywhere.By the time i get them ready to school my BP shoots up like crazy. Try smooties or shakes with banana or strawberry. It really works.
Hi
I have been a silent reader to your blog for sometime and this reminds of making my son to drink milk in the mornings. We did find a way. Setting a timer up and he needs to finish before the timer goes off. May be you'll succeed at that :) good luck !
Dee
I read your blogs very often and this reminds me of my niece. She was doing this until she was 6 years and my sister decided that she will not eat anything until she asks for it and you will not believe, she changed and she is the first one to ask what's for dinner. However, my sister cried for about a week when she went through the transition of waiting for the child to ask for food.
lol, wait till she hits middle school. Makes soem awesome kodak moments! :D
*I know, am a party pooper :)