I’ve been making a conscious effort in the last couple of months to make sure Sly knows what she’s eating. It can be all too easy to just slap a meal on her plate and expect her to eat it, even though she has no idea what it is — and as a toddler, this is the perfect time to coach her on recognizing different kinds of meat, fruit and veggies in all their various forms.
So, at the start of each meal, I go through the items on her plate. “This is macaroni. These are beans. These are apple slices,” on so on. Or, I ask her — ”What is this? And this?”
She’s learning to recognize that peaches, apples and so on can come diced or sliced, and will tell me things like, “That’s cantaloupe, not peach.”
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