Dinner time used to be a uneventful 20min of food and zero words. Our family does not speak when they are eating. There is no dinner conversation here, 100% food concentration.
The past two weeks though have changed. Like they do with growing children, whenever you get used to one thing they sense that and change it completely. I used to say I wish they would talk during dinner, now I long for the quiet evenings of weeks ago.
Parker has decided that he no longer wants to sit in his high chair and therefore SCREAMS about the injustice of having to sit in it. So because of the immense amount of anger he has about it, whatever food you put in front of him he screams yet again and then hurdles everything as far as he can throw it. It’s the best part of dinner. Insert extreme eye roll.
So now every single night or any time really there’s a chance of food and having to sit in his chair he screams absolute blood murder. So where do we go from here? what do we do? How do you explain to a child who doesn’t understand that if he throws his food he cant eat it? Because you know and he knows that he’s still getting fed. So basically its a vicious cycle that I feel right now will never end. I know it will because absolutely everything with kids is a vicious cycle. When you are in the heat of it though it feels like its never ending.
Tonight for a snack and because he didn’t eat anything except yogurt for dinner, him and his sister were going to have bowls of cereal. Well. I put him in the high chair. He sat there looking at the bowl, I knew it was going to happen, could I be quick enough to stop it from splattering all over the floor? I can tell you I was not. I had to walk away. I teared up. The frustration levels that kids put you through, I understand why some animals eat their young. To much? Probably, I will say I would never eat them, don’t worry (gotta cover your bases).
Just to update you, he’s currently sitting at the table eating sandwiches with my husband. So ya guess that battle is over since I will never win it. Ahh to be a parent, what joy it brings (please read that with the oozing sarcasm I am saying it in).
Enjoy every second of quiet. It never lasts long enough.
Much love
Xoxo
Simone
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