Compromise is the key to every healthy relationship, including the relationships we must nurture and maintain with our offspring. Bedtime will never occur at 8pm sharp like we'd like it to. Sometimes baths take longer than ten minutes and green vegetables, if we're lucky will be eaten one out of every ten times they're served. One child's half-assedness is another parent's success story, so chin-up parental-peeps. It's going to be okay.
If your kid decides he wants to eat a stick of butter for breakfast? Let him eat lard! So long as he does so on YOUR terms. For instance: Chopsticks! A child is never too young to learn how to eat pats of butter with chopsticks. Especially when in public restaurants in trendy neighborhoods.
This way, when a restaurant patron gives you the evil eye for letting your child devour butter, he will also be giving you an impressed nod when he notices that your child is eating butter with-- could it be? Yes! Indeed it can be!-- CHOPSTICKS!
Ah, yes. Sometimes we have to pick our battles. Especially when parenting in public (PIP) which I try to do to keep from going insane. (Everyone, even stay-at-home-moms need to escape Toyland once in a while.)
So while butter isn't the healthiest of breakfasts, at least it had some pancake on it. And dude was well-behaved in the restaurant because butter is that awesome. And it just so happens that when we came home from breakfast and I presented Archer with a smorgasbord of fresh fruit, he chose two raspberries and a half bite of banana slice, leaving the rest for me to wrap and stow away for next time. Did I win? Did he? Does it matter?
At the end of the day, so long as we're all getting a little piece of what we need...
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