raw dough

ok yeah. my niece cracks me up. she has been labeled as a picky eater. but i think she just likes to play with her food and do her own thing. understandable.

so the other day she was sitting in the corner of the kitchen with a plate of biryani and a separate bowl of raw dough she was playing with. i sat with her and was munching away. she started separating her food and putting what she did not want to eat into the raw dough bowl and mixing the rough dough in with her biryani and eating that. but then i saw she was pretending to eat the raw dough and it was fine.

she then started putting what she did not want to eat from her plate into mine - picking out the potatoes and chicken from the biryani and putting it on my plate. whatever i ate it. and then she put something else on my plate so i ate that and i realized it was the rough dough after i had started munching away.

i shrieked and told chotu that she had given me raw dough and i thought it was chicken. she saw the look of panic on my face. it was met with a look of solidarity. of understanding. of being forced to eat something that was not desired. of being tricked. she felt my pain. in a very serious, incensed, and roused way she shouted 'paikdo!' and pointed to the ground.

she was telling me to spit it out. and i have seen her do this with her own foods when she doesn't want to eat something. only we put her in time out or say we will put her in time out. she just does not want to eat it. leave the baby alone. im not giving her stuff she doesn't want to eat anymore.

i will lay out the healthy options and let her decide on her time and on what she wants to eat.