Nothing remarkably new this time, but a little trick that we have discovered…
Freya loves her curry, especially the meat, but would not eat the vegetables with the same gusto. Even her rice was being demolished faster than the ordinarily-loved courgette. So, I showed Linda how to cheat; I stabbed a chunk of courgette with her fork and then handed it to her. She grabbed the courgette, ate it as though it were the finest sweet-meat, and looked at me for more.
It is not even like it was the fork, not really. She was grabbing the food and pulling it off the tines, leaving the fork itself in my hands ready to be re-loaded. Perhaps the only reason she eats rice, following this logic, is that she gets to eat it from a spoon.
It seem that, as a parent, I think I have come to the rather Zen conclusion that the ‘why’ is not so important as the ‘whether’. If she eats vegetables and rice, I don’t care what prticular part of the trick works…