Tonight we had pork tenderloin, sweet potatoes, and broccoli for dinner. Fairly typical, we put butter and brown sugar on the sweet potatoes.
Mason LOVES brown sugar, that's all he'd eat, BUT I only put a tiny amount on his sweet potato. Here's how our dinner conversation went:
Mason: "Can I have some more sugar, please?"
Mommy: "If you eat two more bites of your pork."
Mason: "OK, Mommy!" pause while he stuffs it in his mouth..."Can I have some more sugar now?"
Mommy: "Sure! Here you go!" I give him about 1/2 tsp of brown sugar on top of his potato.
Two minutes later the conversation repeats, but I up the stakes and make him eat all his broccoli and two more bites of his pork...HE COMPLIES! It went on like this for a FULL 40 minutes. Anyone with two small children knows that a 40 minute meal is unheard of in most cases. But I think Mason ate more than I did for dinner! So the old saying definitely rings true in our household tonight - just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down! :)
Oh, and Charlotte ate at LEAST as much as Mason did...only she required no bribery, that little girl LOVES broccoli (and pork too!) :)
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Broccoli - you're brave!
Carter is a talker after broccoli - and not out of his mouth! LOL
How funny! Works at our house most of the time too . . . we always make sure that dinner includes one thing they like, even if it's just teriyaki sauce. That way there's always something to bribe them with . . . otherwise I think they'd starve!
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