October 8th, 2005
Favourite “mum mum”
» motherhood
Frankly speaking, I don’t like to feed Yauyau during her lunch and dinner, because she would take ages to finish the meal. This is especially so when we started her on table food we eat. She seems to take forever to chew on the meat, vege or other more fibrous stuff. She either sucked away all the juice or spit out the chewy portion, or she kept them in her mouth around her jaws. I have absolutely no patient for such nonsense. To prevent myself from loosing patience, throwing away the unfinished food and starving her, I rather leave that job to Indah.
Guess one of the problem with mothers who aren’t too involve in certain daily routine with bringing up their kids is that we aren’t aware that they have master new skills or have drop the irritating bad habit that annoy us so much. So today, I realised that she has actually stop her bad habit of storing food inside her mouth and is able to chew her food very well. I think her set of baby teeth are more or less done growning.
Like all children, her favourite food now includes fishball, fishcake, mushroom, sweet corn, cookies and things like that. I am also happy to find out that she likes vegetables and fruits a lot. It seems that children nowadays are taking their greens and fruits very well. Perhaps it is because parents have started the kids early on these foods.
Oh yes, I forget to mention that her favourite drink is Yakult.
October 10th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
Haha, that’s funny, same thing happened to me! My son takes so long to eat one meal -1hour- that I gave up feeding him on my own. I would react like you, either get exasperated and chuck the food away and starve him, or scream at him and scold till he cries and throws a fit. Which would only make things worse since in the end, no one wins and no one eats the food! The maid has more patience, she will dance around and coax him, play with him etc. I wonder which is the right way though, to give in to him, or train him the hard way that if he doesn’t eat fast, NO FOOD. Hmm, any thoughts??
October 11th, 2005 at 11:00 am
O my dear genesis
It’s very clear. Patience is all we need. I dont deny saying is easier and Im always learning to be especially towards my two 18mos princesses. I am quite jealous to see my children more bond to the maid. It’s a task for a maid to take care of the children and they can have patience so being a role as a mother I should be more oblige.
Genesis Im not sure how old is your son but I still think going by the hard way is abit harsh for toddler below 2yrs. Unless they are ready to and can understand logic like if they dont eat now they will go hungry later and no food will be served till next meal. If not they will end up cranky all day bcos hungry and only learn that mummy dont love them bcos mummy dont give food. Worst of all the tantrum most probably gotta us on the nerve and gave them a big spank on the buttock! Ha Ha Ha
October 11th, 2005 at 12:01 pm
I always want to use that hard way of depriving the kid from her food if she tries to eat slowly, run around or play with the food. Either she still doesn’t understand the concept of it or because I couldn’t bear to see my not chubby girl getting thinner, it never works. So, I rather let the more patient maid do the job. When I feed her and she is up to her monkey business, I will employ the help of TV or toys. Not a good practice, but at least it prevent me from flaring up…hehe.