04/21/2022
I have my own confession- I stole this saying from one of my MOMS Club members named Stephanie. Her name has not been hidden to protect her identity 🤩🤩🤩
Stephanie has 2 boys and they often have friends over to play at her house. She has the usual pantry full of "let me not be the lame house" packaged snacks 🍿🥨🍟.
A few weeks ago her kids had friends over and they were playing video games 🎮. Stephanie went to her kitchen, chopped up a bunch of multicolored raw vegetables- carrots 🥕, peppers 🌶, & cucumbers 🥒 and placed them on a platter in front of where her kids and their friends were playing. Wait it gets better…
Now here is the GENIUS part. Stephanie went, delivered the food, turned around, walked away and said....ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 🙊🙊🙊🙊🙊🙊!!!!!!
She didn't say
👋🏼 "hey kids here's a snack for you"or
👋🏼"I cut up some healthy veggies for you all to eat" or even
👋🏼”if you eat these then you can have something from the fun pantry"
She said NOTHING.
30 mins later Stephanie came back to the TV room to find the plate EMPTY.
Can you guess what she said? Once again Stephanie said NOTHING!!!!
Not "wow guys I'm so proud of you for eating these"or "hey did you like the veggies I cut up"" ...NADA.
So the theory is this- if you say NOTHING you are taking away your kids' power to accept or reject what you are giving them, there is no discussion positive or negative, it's just food and it's just there. No tantrum if you don't want to eat it and no party if you do.
I told you, GENIUS 🤓. The next time your kids have friends over I challenge you to channel your inner Stephanie, cut up some veggies or fruit, etc and say NOTHING.