Stand off

[lathany]

bateleur is trying to train Ryan to feed himself without anyone holding his spoon or arm.

Ryan is trying to train bateleur to feed him without Ryan himself having to hold the spoon or participate beyond opening his mouth.

Any bets on who will win this one ?

Comments

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Ten bucks on the kid!

[condign.livejournal.com]

I'll take bateleur, if you'll give me two to one odds.

I've argued with him before, he never gives up. Then again, the kid's got his blood, and the advantage of youth on his side.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, it may come down to which one of them dies of old age first!

[condign.livejournal.com]

Not quite.

Assume neither of them eats. I'm betting he's got more fat than the kid, and he'd succumb to starvation first.

If it came down to old age, though, I think the kid wins.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

They can both win, if the spoon learns how to levitate.

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

I reckon it's just Ryan's attempt to communicate: 'There is no spoon'

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

If he's not careful I'll enlighten him further with 'There is no dinner' and 'There is no milk'... he'll soon be wishing he took the red pill !

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

There is no dinner: Seems a pretty good way to train Ryan. Put the dinner and spoon in front of him. Have a spoon of your own, and every minute, eat a spoonful. When it's gone, it's gone. He'll pretty soon get the idea that if he's not going to eat it properly, you will. Problem is:
1 You have to eat his food, which may or may not be fine.
2 If he is not fed, you get a grumpy hungry Ryan
3 It won't work: If it was that easy, raising kids would be a doddle.

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

Couldn't you get one of those collars people put on doggies to stop them biting their stitches off? Ryan couldn't reach his mouth with his hand then. Of course, if he picked up the long-handled spoon , that would enable him to get the food into his hungry mouth....

Or you could just cave before the NSPCC read this post, and get him finger food.
:o)

Nice Try !

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

The problem is that with the exception of the first spoonful or so, Ryan doesn't care about his food. (Same applies to dr_bob's comments above.)

It's simple: Beas like to eat food, Ryans like to Go !

Re: Nice Try !

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Good grief, so the lack of reasonable selection criteria on homo sapiens has reached the point of a kid too dumb to realise what "hungry" means?

He'll regret it when he's older and reads Daddy's livejournal, that's the main thing.