Nobody likes to burn their tongue. It's a fact of life. If you're a toddler you really don't like to burn your tongue because you think everything you eat after that will have the same affect. Or at least that's how my toddler operates.
Since we don't have a microwave out here everything must be heated up in the oven or on the stove which usually means its too hot for her highness to eat right away. We try very hard to tell her this whenever it happens (which is about every meal) and rejoiced when she learned to say "hot". Because of this, Grace now thinks anything that is hot must be bad.
This is what I've learned. Don't ever teach your child something that they can use as an excuse later on in life.
This evening at the supper table while Grace was enjoying her grilled cheese, I held up her broccoli and asked her if she would eat it.
She held her hand a centimeter away from it, looked me in the eye and said "hot". The broccoli was raw.
Does anyone know what to say to that? Because I certainly don't. I just stared at her and said it wasn't hot. Grace repeated that, yes, it was in fact "hot" therefore she couldn't eat it. She then went to sit on the couch where she could finish her sandwich in peace.
I honestly thought that I would always be able to explain things to her in a way that would make her respect and love me even more than before IF she ever talked back to me. Mom has many surprises yet to learn.
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