The TMI Files. When Is It Okay To Lie To Your Child?
The scene: Dinner table, Chez Bougane. A few months back.Magilla: I don't want that.
Nilk: Eat your dinner.
Magilla: But I don't like carrots.
Nilk: It's not carrot.
Magilla eats carrots.
The scene: At the stove, cooking, at Chez Bougane. Last week.
Magilla: Can I help?
Nilk: Yup. You can mix these in.
Gestures towards hokkein noodles.
Magilla: Eewww. I don't like them.
Nilk: Yes you do, they're like spaghetti.
Magilla: Oh, okay.
Later proceeds to eat chicken satay stir-fry with hokkein noodles.
posted by Nilk @ 8:23 PM
1 Comments:
My parents say that when I was two, they had to literally sit on me and hold me down to take some medicine that I really needed to badly take. After I'd finally taken it, I liked it so much that I through a huge temper tantrum because they wouldn't give me more.
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