Friday, March 13, 2009

Seriously...

How do you teach a 2-year-old that it really is possible to close your lips AND chew at the same time?

Any advice?

Sincerely, a mom who is done with hearing three little mouths smacking at every meal...

PS... hal tries with all her might... She presses her lips together really hard, (she cannot exemplify the words, "just let your lips rest together softly.") then she puts on her "thinking face" (Clearly this is a very difficult thing for her mind to convince her body to do) and finally with her lips firmly shut she just ends up swallowing all of her food whole!
I must confess that I just had no idea that the concept of "chewing with your mouth shut" was going to be soo difficult...