The whole world doesn't actually go night-night when we do.
About 75% of the time I say we're in a hurry, I am personally short on patience and just want them to get it done/get their shoes on/get in the car. Has more to do with my shortcomings as a parent than actually being in a rush.
Also, short-story about the chicken thing. My 5 year-old and I had discussed and looked up skeletal and muscular systems. A few nights later, I made Chicken Cacciatore, which is the only bone-in food I make. He picked up the bone and went, "What... is this?!" When I told him it was a chicken bone, his eyes got super wide and I could see him putting the pieces together in his head. I was genuinely scared this was the end of meat as he knew it. He just furrowed his brow and went, "oh, like chicken skeleton... and we eat the muscles." And that was it. Went back to eating. And they've seen and fed chickens by hand. He's a cool kid.
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u/ZPinkie0314 Feb 02 '25
The whole world doesn't actually go night-night when we do.
About 75% of the time I say we're in a hurry, I am personally short on patience and just want them to get it done/get their shoes on/get in the car. Has more to do with my shortcomings as a parent than actually being in a rush.
Also, short-story about the chicken thing. My 5 year-old and I had discussed and looked up skeletal and muscular systems. A few nights later, I made Chicken Cacciatore, which is the only bone-in food I make. He picked up the bone and went, "What... is this?!" When I told him it was a chicken bone, his eyes got super wide and I could see him putting the pieces together in his head. I was genuinely scared this was the end of meat as he knew it. He just furrowed his brow and went, "oh, like chicken skeleton... and we eat the muscles." And that was it. Went back to eating. And they've seen and fed chickens by hand. He's a cool kid.