It's all about how you ask ...
A few months ago, we struck a small problem with S not eating her school lunches. This came to light as a result of a "mummy clean out" of the bottom of her wardrobe, where afore-mentioned un-eaten school lunches were un-earthed.
Since then, I have asked, at reasonably regular intervals (ie. whenever I remember) "Not hiding food in the bottom of your wardrobe again are we ?". The answer is always no.
Tonight, after dinner, I asked again ... and again, the answer was no. However, the MOTH noticed something I didn't ... a slight hesitation before answering.
So in the bottom of S's school bag tonight we found ...
- 7 old bananas
(some rather rotten)
- 5 bruised apples
- 3 days homework
- 2 meusli bars
- 1 mandarin
- and a flask full of soup from last week.*
Apparently I should have been asking "Are you hiding your school lunch ANYWHERE at all ?!?!?!?!?"
* With a little poetic licence, you can almost sing that to the tune of Twelve Days of Christmas
posted by Kassi @ 10:15 PM
2 Comments:
at our house we call that the difference between obeying the letter of the law (ie exactly what it says) and obeying the spirit of the law.
One of our children is gifted at obeying the letter and ignoring the spirit.
so you now know she is gonna be a lawyer when she grows up... or a priest...
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