I witnessed a miracle!

[somniumdraconae]

My parents and I went out to have dinner tonight at a local Chilis. Not long after we had gotten our drinks and were waiting for our food, a family was sat next to us: a man, a woman, a boy of perhaps 2-3 years old, and a little baby maybe 6-8 months. It was past six already. Naturally, this is a late dinnertime for a kid that small so the boy of

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[mouseycat]

Freakin' awesome! :D

As for the broccoli thing: it tastes delicious when cooked properly. Evidently the kid has good taste. And his parents didn't make him eat gross overcooked broccoli.

And random bonus WTF... yeah. I got nothin'. Besides "oh god the poor kid's gonna be teased so much".

[somniumdraconae]

I agree on the broccoli. The Chilis by me steams their broccoli just right. Yum yum! It's just amazing to see a kid that young eating something like that =) green veggies usually take some getting used to for a kid.

[spaceship505]

Could also be they haven't numbed his taste buds with overly sweet things (yet), then properly cooked vegetables will taste just sweet enough :)

[kat144]

Or he hasn't been exposed to the "ewww it's icky" mindset yet. I always said that if I DID have a kid, it would be acclimated to all sorts of foods-- ethnic too-- before it was old enough for all its little friends to teach it that everything besides hot dogs and chicken nuggets are "icky."

[l_o_lostshadows]

Its sad when good parenting sticks out like that.

In the grand scheme of strange kid names, that one isn't that bad.

[michiru42]

I know, right? Think "Moon Unit Zappa!"

[l_o_lostshadows]

Or Dweezil Zappa. Or Moxie CrimeFighter Jillete (for a more recent one.)

[chocolate_frapp]

I used to be the biggest Penn and Teller fan on the planet but that name kind of killed it for me.

[firehauke]

random wtf - the hell? That poor kid. So many years of therapy are in its future...

[crossbow1]

You would be impressed with my niece. She has EPIC tantrums but never in public, and the only food she ever wants is raw veggies. And lo mein. Crazy for lo mein.

[kitszoo]

Isn't it sad when an episode of good parenting stand out? Something that would have been the norm 20 years ago?

Years ago a friend of mine, myself, and her probably 18 m/o ish or so were shopping at the local discount store. The little one decided, upon leaving the shoe aisle (shoes were a fascination of hers at that point) to start screaming SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES!! and melting down. My friend scooped up the toddler and left ... came back in like 20 minutes later after the toddler had settled down.

That whole parenting concept is a fast fading one ...