Parenting Case Number 307: Negotiation
We had cold udon noodles with chicken and eggplant for dinner, but Nina was not too excited about eating eggplant, so we used the old “you have to eat all your food if you want dessert” ploy. It worked, but Nina came to the somewhat bitter realization that eating dessert last meant you weren’t hungry any more and couldn’t enjoy the dessert to the fullest. Ah, the sad lessons of life.






