Cormac, age 2 and a half.
Even republican parents tell their children that their table manners need to be nice enough to eat with the Queen.
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Kiddos using cutlery correctly is all kinds of adorable.
For a few years, we talked about dining with Helen Clark, and then dining with Julia Gillard. Now that we’re back in NZ, I’m not quite so keen on the concept of dining with our current prime minister, so we’ve swapped to channeling. We have a friend who has superb table manners, so we tell our daughters to “Channel [Jane Doe].” It works very well.
Also, beautiful control from Cormac.
Oops, probably a good thing we are unlikely to be invited to dine with the Queen then…
My two year old loves to use cutlery, with so-so results. Her 4.5 year old sister prefers to eat with her hands. I’m mostly happy if she eats (I often joke that she must be getting most of her seemingly boundless energy from photosynthesis) so I’ve decided she can eat her pasta with her hands for a little while longer. No chance we’ll be dining with the Queen anytime soon, anyway….
oooh I struggle with this. I know that there are many more important things in the world to worry about, and that by the time they reach high school, or at least university, they won’t still eat like wild animals (will they?). But my table-manner-obsessed parents imparted their judgmental and frankly snobby views to me and it is surprisingly hard to let them go. Holding your fork like a pen doesn’t make you a bad person, I know this, I do, I really do.
wow, that’s adorable. I think at that age one of my sons was doing OK with cutlery, the other would at best use his hand to shove food into the spoon.