Playing and eating for adults are totally different in meaning. We don’t do them at the same time. But for 2 years old Matthew, they are just the same things. What we view as playing with his food he is actually eating it.
He squeezed his cheese, blended it with cereal and cookies before put them into his mouth. I gazed and going like “uegh, it’s disgusting!” I thought, I have to teach this little boy eating manner. And when he spilled his milk on the table and licking it, I thought he urgently needs a lesson to be a good human. He didn’t eat with the same manner each time and always invented a new creative way on how to fill his stomach.
It took a while before I withheld any judgment, pretending nothing happen and continue my reading on “Childhood Wounds” which gave me a glance inside the mind of a little child. After sometime, when I got back to look at him, he almost finishes the breakfast. A slice of cheese, a glass of milk, a handful of cereal and 2 pieces of cookies. He was doing all right.
If I just diminish the “graphic motion” on how he ate them, he became a truly responsible young boy and capable human being, with his breakfast.
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