Question of the Day — Trashed Kitchens

~ Laura

I fed my kids couscous yesterday.

“What?!!”, you say. “That’s a rookie mistake. They trashed your kitchen yesterday, didn’t they?”

Yes, they did trash the kitchen. At some point during the meal, Ian was eating the stuff by the fistful. Half of his dinner had slid into the folds of his shirt, his chair, and a fifty feet circumference around the table.

I still say that feeding the kids couscous isn’t a rookie error, like letting them fall asleep at 6:00 (I did that the day before). It’s a rookie error to try to clean up immediately after the meal. A pro knows to let it harden first and then clean it up.

Question of the Day: What’s another rookie error? Is couscous the worst thing you can feed your kids? Or should corn muffins win the prize?

Published by Laura

15 thoughts on “Question of the Day — Trashed Kitchens”

  1. Not putting the bulging bag of Halloween candy into a top cupboard they can’t reach immediately after they come home with it. THAT’s a rookie error.

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  2. Don’t consider them rookie errors. Actually they are the actions of a more adventurous parents who is willing to let their children experience a wide range of textures, cultures and flavors of foods rather than taking the easy way out. How’s that for spin? LOL

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  4. For our son, chocolate pudding is the worst. We can still see remains in random places throughout the home for weeks afterwards. And once he realizes that it’s in the house, he will stop at nothing to get to it in the fridge.

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  6. What kind of error is to forget to feed your kids? We do this, because we are, ourselves, odd eaters who eat at odd times, and will sometimes go the whole day without eating, if we get interested in something else.
    But, you know, that apparently doesn’t work with children. They do not come and ask us for food. Instead, they happily play, until they go insane, because they haven’t eaten all day. We’ve started to set alarms, to make sure we feed them occasionally 🙂
    bj

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  7. So long as you have a dog, couscous is not the worst thing you can feed your kid. Likewise, dogs can also snarf up crumbs of varying sizes and textures. We hardly ever have to vacuum the floor or clean after a meal. And the dog loves the kids even more because of it.

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  8. I introduced Lyra to shredded cheese. Much like couscous, it creates a wide halo effect.
    Actually, this afternoon, I was really hungry (fixing lunch) and ate a piece of belgian chocolate in front of her. What was I thinking!?!?!?! She demanded some, then she stole another piece after dinner when someone (not me, ahem) left the box on the edge of the counter.
    Chocolate immediately before bedtime is a BAAAAAD scene.

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  10. I’ve done the white karate uniform error. I’ve done the chocolate before bedtime error. Have done the candy on the top shelf, but nothing bad has happened… yet… Ianqui, loved the photo.
    As I read over this post, I realized I provided misinformation. I wrote that a pro knows to clean up a day after the couscous hurricane. A pro may know that, but a pro wouldn’t be out of vacuum bags like I am. We haven’t vacuumed in a month, because we can’t figure out where to get the stupid bags. We’re so busy that this stupid problem is really flooring us.

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  12. Having a vacuum cleaner that needs bags? Having had cast-off vacuum cleaners for decades, I finally splurged and bought one. Cool as they are, they do get clogged if you use them to vacuum up walnut shells.
    .. which brings me to I don’t know what you are talking about. I feed my kid whatever. It will be a mess no matter what … walnuts, pomogranates, etc.

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  14. Oatmeal for a one-year-old is good. Yogurt produces some memorable effects, too, especially when combed into the hair with both hands.

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