It seems like every time I have a discussion with Archer there's just as much conversation happening mentally as verbally. This morning, for example. Archer wanted ice cream for breakfast. I offered several other alternatives, but he was set on the ice cream. Every time I said no to him, I thought about how much I would like to have ice cream for breakfast.
"You can have cereal." Gosh ice cream sounds good!
"You can have a waffle, or yogurt." I'm responsible for this boy eating healthy. When he's not looking I'll have ice cream.
"You can have toast." I can't wait till he takes a nap later on so I can have some ice cream.
"You can have anything in the house except ice cream." I want nothing but ice cream right now!
Mmmm. Archer just went to bed and I just finished my bowl of ice cream.
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I remember that when this Mom was a little girl, she defended her act of eating ice cream for breakfast with the argument that "Ice cream is dairy" My parent response at the time was to make a silent mental note not to buy any more ice cream for this household... ever again.
Ice cream IS dairy! Compare ice cream nutrition to sweetened yogurts and it's not so different. There's another rationalization - nobody questions yogurt for breakfast! And pie is like a homemade pop-tart, only probably 10 times more healthy (or at least with one-tenth the artificial ingredients :^)
By the way, there's a song my youngest son and I enjoy called Ice Cream for Breakfast - available here: http://payplay.fm/nachmanoff3
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