Parenting Part 5- Eating

Here's the progression of the meal time experience in our house. The food on the plate is an "un-kid-friendly" Thai meal (cabbage, carrots, onion, garlic, egg...typical healthy meal kids would never choose). Beck decided he didn't want to eat it so...

He cried (i.e. screamed)



We told him we'd set the timer and he'd have 5 minutes to eat all his food. So he cried some more.
















He realizes what the consequences will be (see Parenting Part 2)



Slowly but surely he finishes his food. In this last picture you can see how thankful he is for the food :)