I hope we are not stunting the Jr VP’s growth or screwing him up in some way by not insisting that he eat better at dinner time. I hope they force feed him a balanced diet at ’school’, because at home he generally chooses one food for dinner and will brook no objections to that plan. That food by the way is never broccoli or apples, it’s more likely bacon or chocolate chips. A declaration (I’m quoting from memory here, so it might not be verbatim) the boy made at the start of dinner last night brought this phenomena to mind:
“Dearest Mummy and Daddy, I shall not be eating this rice tonight, nor will I partake of the chicken you’ve so hopefully placed before me. Please also place the cap back upon that tub of yogurt and place the tub back in the refrigerator, and then remove these dreadful vegetables from my sight with all possible haste. Tonight, I dine on beef jerky, and only beef jerky. Please procure me some forthwith.”
He proceeded to eat about eight pieces of beef jerky and then pronounced himself done with dinner. Protein deficient he is not.
