Comments on: Everything I needed to know I learnt from my toddler

By: DrSusanCalvin

DrSusanCalvin — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:08:35 +0000

For longevity and almost museum quality preservation you can’t go past waterchestnuts. Fed them to the dogs once, and three weeks later they threw them up, tumeric in colour, firm, globular in shape, untouched by the recent stay in Dog’s Gutz.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:44:48 +0000

“is still, identifiably, chorizo”

So will he recognize it when it next appears in his lunch box? With a “thinking of you” note from Mum? “Since you liked it before….”

My mum used to do that. Stick provocative little notes into our school lunch boxes (after the servants had prepared them).

My favourite was “Dad and I won’t read your school report unless you make it interesting.”

By: Armangac Esq

Armangac Esq — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:09:58 +0000

Well… how about pieces of corn that have been cooked up into corncakes, eaten, processed through a 15 month old colon and shattds… and are entirely recognisable as pieces of corn?

Then there’s sultanas by the dozen, but they aren’t cooked so…

By: Mindy

Mindy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:07:15 +0000

This is the glamourous stuff the parenting books never tell you about.

By: Crit

Crit — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:04:58 +0000

Not in the stomach of a toddler, though. I reckon they are weird.

By: ampersand duck

ampersand duck — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:38:28 +0000

I thought corn kernels were the only foodstuff that had that very minor superpower.

By: Crit

Crit — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:31:20 +0000

Scary innit?