After a 6 hour battle over getting the toddler to take his vitamin, I’ve decided to give the play-by-play for such an event.
- Get vitamin.
- Get toddler.
- Politely offer vitamin.
- Retrieve vitamin from the floor.
- Demand ingestion of vitamin in a stern voice.
- Walk away from the crying toddler.
- Return to stop him from throwing toys.
- Hide vitamin in cereal.
- Return an hour later to find that he’s eaten around the vitamin and all the cheerios that touched it. Silently congratulate his cunning.
- Give him television, water, and put the vitamin nearby.
- Mention vitamin every 30 minutes.
- Consider duct taping child to wall and force-feeding vitamin. Realize you don’t want to go to jail.
- Start singing with toddler and pop vitamin in when he opens his mouth.
- Retrieve vitamin from the wall that he spit it at. Openly show amazement that it stuck.
- Get some work done and forget about the vitamin.
- Snap and try begging while holding out vitamin. Ignore toddler cackling like a madman.
- Sit and pout. Try not to laugh when toddler imitates.
- Get vitamin in his mouth during imitation.
- Chase him to the bathroom where he plans to spit vitamin into the toilet. If successful, keep trying. If failure, give up for the day.
- Lay on living room floor in defeat with drool-covered vitamin placed on forehead. Acknowledge insanity has begun to set in.
- Toddler wanders in and asks for cupcake.
- Point at vitamin and negotiate.
- Toddler eats vitamin and runs to the kitchen for a cupcake.
- Revel in victory. Ignore that it took 6 hours.
- Despair when the same fight starts over him eating his lunch.
Legends of Windemere 
I hope I’m laughing WITH you. If not, then I’m just laughing out loud about this. Aren’t kids the best? Hahahaha
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Fantastic. So great that I’m willing to share my joy by mailing him overnight to anyone who wants him. Little imp hid his chicken nuggets in his diaper, so I’d think he ate them and give him the cupcake. He won this round, but I have 4 trays of chicken nuggets to fight him with.
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Your stories of him today have been my only entertainment. Thank you. And good luck
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You’re welcome. I think.
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Thanks. I’ll work on a speech.
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No worries mate.
Hard to pick 15 people you “REALLY” like as people.
It takes a SECOND to be nice and human and decent.
Thanks bud
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I’m trying to work on the speech, but I think I’m at the end of my sanity and energy here. 2.5 hours before the wife comes home to let me sleep. That is after I make dinner and clean the dishes.
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A woMANs work is never done mate….
I know the feeling..
Leave it another day lol
It is only an Award..Our lives are more important
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I soooo understand. Have you tried the gummy vitamins?
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This are prescription vitamins that the doctor told us to give me. He used to eat gummies, but turned on them one morning.
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He turned on them, as in flushed them down the toilet or something?! LOL Silly boy.
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Just refused to eat them. Short of jamming them into his mouth and forcing him to chew, I can’t get him to eat if he doesn’t want to. That’s why he’s now whining about being hungry and wanting chips, which he won’t get since he refuses to eat lunch. Hopefully, he eventually figures this out.
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Stubborn. I have one of those. My boy is a tough nut to crack.
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This sounds just like my oldest boy Elijah and vegetables. Poor daddy. It gives you great blog material.
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He turned on vegetables recently. We can’t get him to eat beyond snacks, which is getting frustrating. He’s too stubborn and will go to bed without lunch and dinner.
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I have one like that too. parenthood. 🙂
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Sorry Charles for the rough time of it, but this was pretty hilarious, lol. This is almost like a good flow chart. If yes go here, if no go here, repeat step 3, lol.
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Trying to find some humor in the day. My new goal for the week is simple survival.
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Haha! Frustrating but yeah, it’s usually bribery that does the trick. Does he like yogurt? Try crushing it and stir it in. My autistic 17 year old will still only take his vitamin that way… there’s no way I’m duct-taping him to the wall. He’s 6′ tall.
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He liked yogurt until today. Without warning, he will refuse to eat a food that he loves and not give us anything to replace it with. Last week, he was devouring chicken nuggets for lunch. Over the week, he refused to eat chicken nuggets and being sick meant that he got spoiled. So, now we have maybe 2 weeks of denying him treats before we can get his diet back to normal.
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Ah yes, another problem I recognize well. Fickle little things these kids are at times.
It got so bad at one point we had to resort to suppositories. It only takes one of those – after that they’ll eat anything.
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If the doctor suggests that then we’ll do it. Though with my luck, he’d still try to hold out for snacks.
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Hey, as long as the snacks work to get him to take what he needs to it’s much better than the trauma. 😛
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I don’t know about that. Eating only chips and cupcakes can’t be good.
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I can laugh now. I wasn’t laughing 40 years ago!
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Excellent point. I get revenge when he has kids. Oh, I’m going to have fun then.
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🙂
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This is why I bought my daughter gummy vitamins as a toddler :3 they look and taste like gummy bears – no kid turns those down!
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We thought that too once. Then my son proved that he hates gummy foods. Never does what we expect.
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ah man, that’s tough! he doesn’t even like flinstones? i loved those things as a kid. heck, i’d still take them. I thought they were candy XD
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He’s not a fan of candy. Maybe 3 weeks ago he started showing an interest in M&M’s. Such an odd toddler we have here.
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not that odd. my daughter didn’t like any sweets for the most part until she turned six XD she still won’t eat cake.
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I like people who don’t eat cake. Leaves more for me. 😉
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hahaha i’ll tell her you said that XD she’s the only 9 yr old i know who doesn’t like cake on her birthday -_-
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Does this include cupcakes?
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yup. because they have cake in them. LOL she’ll lick off the frosting then she gives the cake away.
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I worked with someone at an ice cream shoppe who hated ice cream. All she did was eat the cake frosting.
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blasphemy. how can anyone not like ice cream? D:
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She claimed allergy. I think she just didn’t want to go near it.
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To be honest, she did have a lot of allergies. Not sure why she wanted to work in an ice cream shop when the only safe thing for her to touch was the frosting.
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Lol! Thanks for the laugh, Charles! 🙂
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Very, very funny from where I sit. I do however, sympathize with you and am glad that my days of fighting toddlers are long over. Sainthood most surely awaits. 🙂
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If sainthood comes with a nap, I’m all for it. 😉
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Thanks. 😀
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Oh, I remember THOSE days but in our house it was the SOCKS! The SOCKS! The seam never lined up the way they wanted. Once it was comfortable (30-45 minutes later) it would get jacked up again when putting the shoe on and the process would start all over again. It’s not right, Mama! It’s not right! It was only when they were older that I discovered seamless socks but they had outgrown the sensory issue by then. Ah, the joys of parenting…but they’re worth it 🙂
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We just switched him to pull-up diapers, but they don’t have Mickey Mouse. So, he screams bloody murder whenever we put them on. He calms down eventually, but it’s a long way to eventually.
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How funny! (Sorry Charles, I’m laughing with you, not at you, promise!)
Bribery always seems to do the trick. And there is nothing wrong with a diet of chips and cupcakes! Especially the cupcakes! 🙂
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Just 3 is the complete opposite. Wants vitamins and medicine all the time.
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This is fairly new and is going along with him not wanting to eat anything other than cupcakes. This morning has been extremely rough because he got some juice, which took away the hunger we were trying to use to get him to eat real food.
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