Chewing Chicken
I occasionally label my three children as the following, based on their stereotypical eating habits: Aaron the granarian (Aaron subsists almost entirely on cereal, bread, pasta, and rice) Edward the vegetarian (the kid loves carrots and broccoli and once devoured peas from my hand ) Ian the carnivore (he now only eats dinner from my plate, and it almost always involves just my meat) You might be surprised how much those cheeks can hold . . . We had a chicken curry concoction last night, and Ian kept asking for more and more chicken. I obliged, of course, but failed to see that he was chewing it only briefly before packing it away in his cheeks. After only a few minutes, his mouth was completely full of partially chewed chicken, which he stubbornly refused to swallow or spit out. Come bedtime, Ian had not appeared to make any progress on dinner, and that's how he fell asleep. Ian woke up just before 7 the next morning, and I prepared a bowl of cereal for his breakfast, whi...