Colette’s seven-year-old nephew Yann sat there at the table with two-thirds of his lunch untouched. I pointed out that he was wasting food — to no avail.
Then I remembered that we’d played marbles before lunch and had had lots of laughs, so I asked him if he’d like to play more marbles after lunch. He nodded eagerly, eyes lighting up. I said, “Well, you’ll need to eat up your lunch first.” The next thing was he’d finished his food with gusto.
Trouble was: I then forgot about the marbles.
So what was meant to be “treat” turned out to be “trick”!
It worked though.
(France, September 2011)
See also: https://piccola-chinita.blogspot.com/2022/08/how-to-get-children-to-eat-their-food.html
tsk tsk...tricking a 7 year old like that...shame on you.
ReplyDeleteHaha. Luckily his English is pretty non-existent at the moment, so he won't be reading this blog for a while yet, which means I could perhaps try the same trick again...
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