I think my title’s wrong. Instead of “Table Manners and Kids,” I should have called it “Table Manners or Kids.”
It’s Whiteboard Wednesday, which means I post a zany comment I’ve made in the past while.
This week’s comment concerns table manners. We had just finished one of our 10 minute dinners (barbecued sausages on a bun). I was relieved that Vivian and William ate their entire dinner – from carrot sticks to licking up the ketchup that had spilled on the table. I picked up a napkin that had fallen to the floor (perhaps to keep the colony of crumbs company) when I saw William, his head on his plate.
Upon seeing this, I said:
I then gave him the napkin I picked up off the floor to wipe the ketchup off his forehead.
The fun never ends.
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Any bizarre things you’ve said or heard lately?
Really enjoy your tales. I have 2 kids – 4 and 2 – and I know how much fun and stressful it can be.
Yikes – 4 and 2. There are days I’m glad I got it all over at once, with twins. Thanks for commenting, Vinay.
Love reading your blog! Mine thankfully are a lot older, but your posts bring back a lot of (un)HAPPY memories 🙂
I’m starting to wonder if some of these memories would be better left repressed!
LOVE THIS!! my 2 year old has made a consistent diet of ketchup and various other condiments and can only add…at least child one did not “lick” ketchup off head of child two:) Have a BRILLIANT day:)
OMG – never thought of that possibility. Though they would switch soothers every 2 minutes. Here’s to buying ketchup in bulk…for your 2yo and my 6yo son!
Table manners – a topic near and dear to my heart. 🙂 I should add, “keep your heads off your plates” to my manners class itinerary. I love it! It sounds like dinner at my house – from the 10 minute dinner to the ketchup on the forehead.
I truly love seeing how you use Things 1 and 2 and your whiteboard. Hilarious!
Amy
Manners classes? Fantastic. Add that to lessons-my-kids-would-never-pass (like Beginner Swimming). Thanks for commenting,
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Last week I told my 9 year old not to put her feet on the dinner table while we were eating.
Hopefully she didn’t take that as “feet on the dinner table are okay the rest of the time.”
It doesn’t end, does it? Wow. My daughter thinks dinner posture means any part of her on the chair (as in feet, head, shins…)
table manners and kids is oxymoronic.
You’re right: putting the moronic back in oxymoronic!
And then what happened! Rather head on plate than plate on head?
Plate on head would have been a possibility too. There’s a lot of evenings where I feel like plopping my head onto my plate.
“Put your butt on the chair”
I can’t tell you how many times I had to say this over a period of a couple of years before my step-son would eat sitting down rather than standing.
It was eventually shortened to “Butt on chair”
So happy to meet you via EduClaytion, Clay. He is right. You are a hoot! I have an 11 year old who is well mannered, never complains, makes his bed each day, puts his dishes into the dishwasher, loads the dishwasher (when he notices that it is full), empties it when he notices that the cycle is finished.
Are you believing any of this? I just couldn’t think of a doofy thing I’d said recently. I’m quite sure, however, that I will think of the penultimate moment the second I press submit.
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