This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
How to Get Your Child to Eat
Aug
6
2012
You may have a habitually picky eater – the child who does not like most of what is presented to him for consumption.
Or you may have a child who is going through a phase and refuses anything but mac and cheese.
If you ever find yourself in that situation, I have a solution for you. This should not be your primary plan, but it is guaranteed to work.
You are going to need three main items:
- A few women over retirement age, to be helpers. They don’t have to be actual grandmothers, but it wouldn’t hurt.
- Some cafetria trays – one per helper
- A bunch of small paper cups
When mealtime comes, station the helpers around the dining room, each with a cafeteria tray full of paper cups containing samples of each item from the meal.
The kids will walk around the room, helping themselves to the cups and eating.
If that does not work, your only hope is to obtain some shopping carts and push the kids around the room (while they are sitting in the carts).
No matter what the states of the kids’ stomachs before we enter Costco, our children are always interested in the food samples. I figure that in order to entice them to eat at home, all you need to do is recreate the experience of the food-sample carts in the store.
Or just let them not eat much, and they should be hungry at the next meal.
So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Exodus 34:28
