Intentionally Ruining Her Food
A question from a concerned parent...
How do you handle it when your child intentionally ruins their food? My 4 year old specifically asked for teriyaki noodles for dinner. She's eaten them before and she loves them. This time, she intentionally poured her drink in her noodles. She only apologized once she was caught and then asked for more noodles because she didn't want hers anymore. How would you discipline your child in this situation? I want her to learn from this that we don't waste food. Would you ONLY offer them their ruined noodles for the rest of the night (when they say they're hungry or want different noodles)? Or would you make them more?
What a very, very rich paragraph to talk about. In this podcast episode, I dive into what a 4 year old does intentionally, making kids apologize, the adult baggage of "waste," and how to be on their team so you both have better relationships with each other, and with food. Here you gooooo
4 year old intentionally ruining food
Rather watch the video? Here you go!
Resources I mention during this episode:
The Recreative Online Art Group (formerly known as the Play with Purpose group)
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Connect with Courage Parenting Course (10 week online course)
Transcript Coming Soon!
Roya Dedeaux is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a focus on using creative tools like art, writing, and recreation as a way to help teens and their families who don't quite fit the mold.
Roya’s first book, Connect with Courage: practical ways to release fear and find joy in the places your kids take you is the result of her background in Recreation and Leisure Studies and Marriage and Family Therapy and is the base of her Connect with Courage Parenting Course.
She loves running her private practice, creating art prompts for her
two online art groups, and running games and challenges in the
free Recreate Parenting Facebook community! When she's not doing that, she loves to make messes with her three wild & wonderful kids where they live and play hard in Southern California.
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