My mother, who is – just to be clear, and because she reads this blog – a very good mother and and exceptional grandmother, has given Margaret ideas above her station.
It was, admittedly, not for actual driving, but while we anchored the car seat into place, but Margaret thought it was pretty cool.
The other innovation of our trip to Nana’s house was the multi-spoon approach to feeding.
Margaret is of the opinion that she should get to hold anything she wants to hold, and particularly things that are going into her mouth. Lots of the time this is fine: string cheese? No problem. Cheerios? Let her have them. Yogurt, however, is more problematic. This may be admitting a fatal flaw in my parenting strategies, but I hold that yogurt is not finger food.
Margaret vehemently disagrees. In her world, everything is finger food.
So as I bring the spoonful of yogurt to her mouth, she grabs the spoon.
Nana’s solution? A three spoon approach, whereby both hands are occupied with unyogurted spoons, leaving the approach open for the yogurt-laden one.
In theory, this works well. In practice, not so much. Because in practice, she can cover her mouth with the two clean spoons.
Of course, sometimes it works. I’m just not sure that I approve.
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