The "Nurturing" Things We Do In The Name Of Parenting

1) give him spicy foods (that he likes) so that he will drink more milk

2) he likes to put firehats on our heads, so XW will hold his dinner and intentionally let her hat fall so that he will come back and put the hat on her head while she feeds him another bite of dinner.

3) cut up veggies (stir fried greens) and mix them in with favorite foods (like spare ribs) so that he doesn't notice.

4) when Max was in his yogurt phase (plain yogurt that is), we would mix in blended broccoli.

5) we put his favorite characters on the bathroom mirror so that he wants to wash his hands.

6) we tell him that his classmates LOVE a particular food so that he will want to eat it himself.

7) we put movies on our phone so that he will lie still for his diaper change.

8) daddy promises to let him "drive" the car (i.e. Stand in the driver's seat and hold onto the steering wheel) in order to get him into the car in the mornings

9) for long plane rides - iPhones and benadryl, not necessarily in that order.

10) we always have him facing windows at restaurants so that he can be distracted by the hoipolloi when we eat.

11) we bring easily-peelable oranges so that he can keep busy for 5 minutes when we go out to eat with friends.

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