He's six years old so that's pretty good for a little guy - fixing his own breakfast.
And as I came closer to the kitchen table I noticed empty Gogurt packets all over the table. Not just a couple of Gogurt packets...five empty Gogurt packets and he was working on his sixth!
Do you know how much sugar that is????? That's more than the daily allowance for the entire day in one sitting!!!
So we had a little conversation about how eating Gogurts for a snack is quite appropriate but he shouldn't be eating that many at one time.
Good job dad! Mission accomplished.
Fast forward one morning.
I was dropping off the girls at their school when I received a phone call from my wife. She found the little guy sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast all by himself. As she got closer to the kitchen table, she found empty Gogurt packets all over the table.
When Helen asked the little man how many Gogurts he had eaten that morning, he readily confessed that he had eaten four, but not one more.
Four Gogurts for breakfast!!!
Helen knew Kaleb and I had a conversation about this the morning before so she asked him why he had eaten so many Gogurts for breakfast.
Kaleb readily replied, "Daddy told me that I should not eat five Gogurts so I had four!!!!!"
Well, he's technically right. We did talk about how five Gogurts were not a smart choice for breakfast, and I thought I made it clear that Gogurts were good snacks but they should not be the main course.
It's clear that I was not clear enough.
Oh the joys of parenting a little man!
I wouldn't trade it for the world.
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Kids!!! Gotta love em!!
When Jake was about that age he brought home a paper from school where his carelessness had earned him a bad grade. In our talk I said "I never wanted to see a paper like that again." At the end of the school year, I was cleaning out his backpack and - you guessed it - there were others I had "never seen" because I'd "said so"! And then there was that time in high school... ;)
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