Remember how I said I threw the crackers away? I mentioned the dumpster, but that wasn’t quite accurate. I threw them in our garbage can, with plans to take the garbage out to the dumpster when Addie woke up from her nap.
Only, you know how it is. She woke up, she wanted a snack, I decided to do a little cleaning around the house. One thing led to another and I still hadn’t taken the garbage out a couple hours later. That’s when Addie calmly walked over to the garbage can, opened the lid to throw something away, and spotted the crackers.
“Crackers!” At first she was just excited. But then she saw the look on my face. Without a word, she knew I wasn’t going to let her have them. So she started screaming. “Crackers!!! Craaaaaa-ckers!”
The lesson here is, obviously, take out the garbage right away when there’s something in it your kids aren’t allowed to have. There’s another lesson, too, though.
Even today, with the crackers long gone, she occasionally goes over to the garbage can and asks, almost timidly, “Crackers?”
I don’t think it’s about the food, so much. I don’t even know that she wants to eat them. I think she feels a property interest in those damn crackers. That kindly old homeless lady gave those crackers to Adeline. Who am I to take her property away without her permission? In Adeline’s little toddler mind, I stole those crackers from her and that’s just not right. You guys, I think we’ve just seen that the foundation of a property-rights-based legal system is rooted in our nature as human beings.
Bet you didn’t know things were going to get that deep.
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When I find a time that I am not in a hurry to check ‘stuff’ on fb, I click on this blog and the enjoyment begins. Thank you for your words, that are so nicely placed and your thoughts that are so nicely shared.
That whole incident is a really tough situation. I’m polite to a fault too and I wonder if I might have allowed my child to eat the crackers, given that they were in a sealed wrapper. I can imagine how awkward it must have been with the lady opposite you.
Given my child eats “floor food” and shares with our dogs too, I’m not super picky. I would have a hard time justifying not letting her eat crackers in a sealed package. And then my husband would probably yell at me for letting her have food from weird strangers.
As for the trash can, our kitchen trash has a latch with I have to use every time, or else strange things end up in the trash, and things come out of the trash. All the time. I hate that latch – it defeats the purpose of having the little foot pedal to lift the lid. But it’s for my sanity. I feel your pain.
Ok, am I overly lax if I’d let my kid eat the crackers, IF and only if, they were handed over in a sealed package? Obviously unwrapped stranger food isn’t on our list.
I had an awful moment once when a homeless man wanted to give our dog a treat, and I said no thanks. It was a knee jerk, instand reaction and I hated myself the rest of the day. Poor guy was trying to be nice, and I herded my dog away like a paranoid crazy lady.
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