My parents tried to stop me from eating dog food, but I figured out that they couldn't stop me if I grabbed some when they weren't watching. It has a very... distinctive flavor that I still remember 40 years later.
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Oh man and that was before all of the now-famous βquality ingredients β too. π€’
My dog cries for the same reason.
Let them eat dog food
I do benefit from reading these accounts. Helps ground me. My kid sometimes makes me feel like he's completely unglued, an assiduous non-participant in consensus reality. "Mayonnaise is spicy," or he will calmly inform me that "my favourite green thing is nobody because nobody is green". Doesn't remember anything about anything, totally time blind, filled with chaotic impulses that leave him perennially scraped and bruised.
And yet on the sliding scale of kids in general, he's basically lucid.
Mayonnaise is spicy
I diagnose your child with white.
Also if it's real mayo, he might be referring to the slight acidity.
He was three at the time, it was a vocab issue. Still funny years later.
I suggested she go potty before bedtime.
I turned on the "wrong water" in the shower. (?)
Why not? Dog food is edible for humans but doesn't taste good. Lesson learned?
Thats what i thought too. So i let my boy get some fresh cat food before the cats ate and guess what? Its not as bad tasting as i thoughts as he still tries to eat it all the time. On the other hand he frequently still munches on some sand from time to time so why would i expect anything else?
I've heard people on a fixed income will eat cat food if they fall behind on expenses and can't afford human food.
Thats right, its edible. But how do i tell my toddler to only eat fresh cat food and not the leftovers of the cats straight out of their bowl that were laying around all morning? And i need you to tell the cats that they will need to share from now on. I certainly wont be that brave.
Hahaha well
Best one is not knowing in advance which of the five identical bowls is "his" one.
Do not, under any circumstances, break the banana.
Just a little
as a treat
they want to explore everything. we let them explore the appropriate things, and then, there is nothing left to explore expect inappropriate things.
Oh if you havenβt had the pleasure yet, wait until you get the meltdown to end all meltdowns when you make their lunch wrong (I.e., you used the wrong knife or some shit). π€£
Jokes aside (Iβm not really joking), youβre doing great! You should get into the habit of never apologizing for keeping your kid alive. In fact, the more they object, the more youβre succeeding.
(Frankly Iβm amazed weβve survived as a species for so long.)
Mine asked for something but was soo convinced I would say no that they just assumed that was what my response was....
I put too much ketchup on their plate.
A friend's son cried because his father didn't let him taste something spicy. Some seconds later he cried because he now knew what spicy meant. It wasn't "hot ones"-hot and the milk was ready.
just let them. teach them the lesson directly.
You forgot to post on kidsarefuckingstupid