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the picky eater

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2008.12.11

The boy's suddenly become a picky eater. Every night, his mother makes him two types of baby food from scratch. Normally he eats her food the same way I do. In big happy mouthfuls.

But all of a sudden that has changed. Tonight he simply refused to eat past the first three spoonfuls. All along it's been one of my pleasures to feed him in the evenings when I can, but now it's a struggle to get him to eat anything, and the whole event is a bit disappointing. As is the waste of the fine food his mother's made.

Mari says that she's read that this is not an uncommon phase. I hope it's brief. First he stopped with the infectious grins, now he's not enjoying food. An ominous trend. Dum dum dum!

rand()m quote

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero