Gourmet: Twins' Father and Chef of the Kindergarten-Chapter 49 - 46: Why Is It That Kids Refuse to Eat as Soon as They Get Home?
The night draped over the city softly like silk, embracing the noisy world gently. At this moment, countless homes lit up with warm lights, sparkling like stars, cloaking the city in a golden glow.
It’s still the Liu family.
"Yuanyuan, dinner time!"
Xu Caihong brought steaming dishes out from the kitchen, smiling as she called out to Yuanyuan, who was watching TV in the living room: "Grandma made your favorite meat!"
Meat?!
Upon hearing that, Yuanyuan’s eyes immediately lit up.
She replied joyfully, "Coming!"
Then she slid off the sofa at once, leaving behind even her favorite cartoon, and dashed excitedly towards the dining room.
Looking at the dishes on the table, they saw besides a noticeable platter of white-cut meat, several other dishes also contained many meat slices and chunks. They couldn’t help joking: "Mom, this isn’t just a full Manchu-Han feast, it’s practically a full meat feast!"
Hearing this analogy, Xu Caihong couldn’t help but chuckle: "Oh, stop teasing me. Yuanyuan loves it, so I put some meat in every dish, letting her eat as much as she likes."
Oh!
It can only be said that the way elders express love is always so simple and direct: as long as the child loves to eat, let them eat to their heart’s content!
"Let me see, let me see~"
Liu Yuanyuan climbed onto her special chair and took a look at the table...
Wow~
So much meat!
Eh?
But why is it different from the meat at kindergarten?
Just as she was puzzled, Xu Caihong picked up some white-cut meat with chopsticks, dipped it in sauce.
Remembering how Yang Yuxi said Yuanyuan learned to use a spoon at kindergarten and could eat by herself, tonight she didn’t directly feed her but placed the white-cut meat on her special plate, wanting her to eat on her own.
"Yuanyuan, come, this is the meat grandma specially cooked for you, eat up!"
Yuanyuan shook her little head, speaking in a childish voice: "Grandma, I don’t want this meat, I want cooked meat."
"Oh dear, what are you talking about?"
Xu Caihong found her words amusing yet helpless: "It may look white, but it’s indeed cooked meat. Uncooked meat would be raw, inedible!"
As she spoke, she picked up a piece of white-cut meat and ate it, hoping to show Yuanyuan that this meat was indeed cooked, and also hoping to change Yuanyuan’s mind and get her to accept this dish.
However, things didn’t go as she hoped.
Despite her earnest intentions, Yuanyuan wasn’t buying it.
She pouted and said, "I don’t want this meat, I don’t want this meat, I want cooked meat..."
Xu Caihong: "..."
Can anyone tell her what on earth this "cooked meat" is...
"Mom, Yuanyuan is probably talking about braised beef..."
Li Xiuxian belatedly remembered.
It’s not that there’s a special understanding between her and the daughter, but in the afternoon while waiting to pick up Yuanyuan at the kindergarten entrance, she noticed the day’s menu posted on the notice board, remembers today’s lunch dishes.
And though Yuanyuan heard Miss Yang announce the names of the dishes during lunch, since Miss Yang only announced it once, plus there were quite a few dishes, she only remembered the words "cooked meat," making it unclear.
Now, when mom mentioned the lunch content, she immediately realized and responded: "Yes, it’s braised meat, no, it’s braised beef."
So that’s it!
Xu Caihong finally understood!
She would love to immediately make this braised beef for her precious granddaughter, but alas, there was no beef at home, so she had to give up!
She comforted her with a smile: "Yuanyuan, grandma didn’t know you wanted to eat beef, so I didn’t buy it today. How about this, I’ll make braised beef for you tomorrow night, okay?"
Yuanyuan deflated like a punctured balloon, thoroughly dispirited.
Xu Caihong tenderly continued to coax her: "There there, grandma will definitely make it for you tomorrow!"
"Then grandma, you feed me the meal!"
"Okay, sure!"
Xu Caihong immediately agreed and reached out to pick up Yuanyuan’s special plate, only to be stopped by Li Xiuxian: "Mom, don’t feed her, let her eat by herself."
"This..."
Seeing her daughter-in-law’s firm attitude, to avoid family conflict, she could only give up reluctantly.
Li Xiuxian turned her head towards Yuanyuan, smiling as she said: "Yuanyuan, teacher said you did very well today, you can eat by yourself with a spoon, how about you eat on your own now?"
"No!"
Yuanyuan shook her head, pouting: "Mama, if you won’t let grandma feed, then you feed me!"
Li Xiuxian: (((φ(◎ロ◎;)φ)))
At this moment, she once again doubted the authenticity of Miss Yang’s words about her precious daughter eating by herself at kindergarten.
Indeed.
She worried Miss Yang might have said nice things just to reassure her.
She couldn’t help but ask again: "Yuanyuan, tell mom, during lunch at kindergarten today, was it Miss Yang feeding you or did you use a spoon yourself?"
Finally, she added: "You must tell mom the truth, okay!"
Yuanyuan listened and replied without thinking: "I ate by myself!"
Her voice carried a hint of pride.
"Then why won’t you eat by yourself at home? You must have mom feed you?"
"At home it’s..."
She pouted, her gaze catching the displeasure on mom’s face,
Uh-oh!
Not good!
Mom is going to get angry!
In her desperate survival mode, she swallowed back the second half of her sentence "there’s no good braised beef," and raised her little face, cooing: "Because I love mom, I want mom to feed me~"
She even purposely prolonged her childish voice.
Li Xiuxian: "(o__)ﾉ
Loving mom means mom has to feed her, what kind of logic is that?
Looking at Yuanyuan’s cute demeanor, Li Xiuxian felt both angry and amused, but feeding was not an option.
And hearing her daughter’s soft "I love mom," Liu Qiangtao, who hadn’t voiced any opinion all along, felt an itch to experience this love from his daughter, so he promptly offered eagerly.
"Yuanyuan, come, daddy will feed you."
The little one didn’t mind who it was, immediately bringing her bowl to Liu Qiangtao’s side, saying sweetly: "Papa feed."
"Yuanyuan, tell daddy, why do you want daddy to feed you?" Liu Qiangtao quickly asked with hopeful anticipation.
This time.
Yuanyuan was stumped!
She looked up at him with confusion in her eyes: "No reason! Papa, you said you wanted to feed Yuanyuan!"
Cold, cold arrow pierced crazily into the heart...
In that instant, Liu Qiangtao’s heart shattered like dumpling filling.
Upon hearing this, Li Xiuxian laughed gleefully.
Xu Caihong also couldn’t help but chuckle.
Liu Qiangtao sadly handed back Yuanyuan’s bowl: "Yuanyuan, you eat by yourself, daddy doesn’t want to feed you anymore."
But the little one wasn’t so easily dismissed!
She puffed up her cheeks and pouted, "Papa is a big liar, I’m not talking to Papa, hum~"
Finally, she turned her face away.
She just didn’t want to see dad’s face!
Hey!
Tease the daughter for a moment, soothing her is a lifetime in hell.
Ultimately!
Liu Qiangtao tearfully chased after her with the bowl to feed her.
No choice!
The meals at home aren’t as tasty as at kindergarten, if you don’t feed her, she might really not eat, and just run back to the living room to watch cartoons, then snack when hungry.
In fact, Yuanyuan’s case isn’t unique.
Many kids can eat by themselves at kindergarten, but need to be fed at home, some even refuse food despite being fed.
Faced with such a situation, many parents start to question whether the teacher’s words during dismissal are just pleasantries.
Otherwise, why won’t kids eat when they get home?
