On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 16:41:37 +0000 (UTC), jinx the minx
> wrote:

>"Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> Ever since my daughter was born, I have been trying to get her to eat
>> breakfast. But she just never wanted to. She does eat. Just not very
>> much. For the longest time she would only eat baby carrots. After that
>> it might be a piece of cheese or a pack of apples. Not unhealthy food.
>> But if I did actually cook something, it would go uneaten and I would
>> eventually get tossed out or maybe put in the freezer where she might
>> find it and eat it for dinner if she didn't like what I was fixing.
>>
>> But I was explaining to her today that now that she has her own car, this
>> will free up a lot more of my time to cook. And since I have been
>> cleaning out things, I have some food that I am fixing to use up.
>> Including some whole wheat pancake mix and some eggs. Plus that little
>> bit of excess bacon that I still have.
>>
>> So imagine my surprise when she said to me, "Well, since you're still up
>> when I get up... Why don't you make me breakfast?" I thought at first
>> she was joking. So I said, "You mean like pancakes or something?" And
>> her eyes lit up. Then I asked about eggs and bacon. And yes, she wants me to cook!
>>
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>Sounds more like a command to make her breakfast than being asked. She
>says jump, you ask how high.

Julie really knows how to best raise a child for life in the outside
world <rolls eyes>