Lately Noah's in one of his stages where he doesn't want to eat dinner. Most of the things I cook (even things he has always liked) are "yucky". It's very annoying and challenging, but I know it's a phase.
Well tonight we went swimming at the Y and he was definitely starving. I made spinach chicken croissants (an old favorite of his and current favorite of the rest of us), and I hoped he'd be starving enough to eat one. Well we sliced him an apple while he was waiting for it to cook and he scarfed it down and asked for another. I sliced him up another and was trying to get him to try a bite of his croissant once it was ready. Usually he would cop an attitude and tell me it's yucky and he doesn't want to eat, yada yada yada.
But, he said in the sweetest tone "Thanks for offering mom, but I'm OK. I've had enough." He thanked me for offering like three times, so serious and casual and cool about it all. Worked like a charm. He had 2 apples and cheese for dinner.
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