Feeding the Jr. VP (anything remotely approaching a healthy diet, anyway) requires more strategery than you might think. He likes most everything, but he likes certain foods more than others. Luckily, he doesn’t remember that he likes certain foods more than whatever you’ve just put in front of him. As a responsible parent, you try to feed him one course at a time, starting with something he may not love but probably should eat, and finally ending with his favorite: cheese, in this boy’s case. So in practice, if you give him a banana, he’ll munch away happily. If you give him cheese and a banana, he’ll eat the cheese, throw the banana at you, and demand more cheese.
The CEO too prefers cheese as a dessert, but I had to go to France (twice!) to learn that preference. Mon Dieu, the lad is halfway to French already. I hope any attendant wussification is reversible. I don’t want to have to start calling him my little Surrender Monkey if this continues.
