Tales from the LFM School of Child Rearing
Posted By Randy on April 6, 2016
I write about cannibalism now and then, most commonly revisiting the quaint and rustic social custom in my October annual Dark Sentiments series. As you read what follows, I would remind you that thanks to good old fashioned fairy tales, the subject has already entered the curriculum as taught in our house.
SFM #1 went off to daycare yesterday with, among other things, a slice of Mrs. LFM’s lovingly home made pizza in his lunch bag. In one of those little snippets of conversation one has with one’s toddler about his or her day away from home, Mrs. LFM found herself engaged in this one (victim’s name changed):
Mother: “Did you eat your pizza today?”
Son: “No. Tommy ate it.”
Mother: “Oh. OK. What did YOU eat?”
Son: “Tommy.”
When the laughter subsided, we did follow up because we are talking about the fruit of our loins here, and we know how we are. As it turned out, “Tommy” had pizza of his own, which he was quite entitled to (and did) eat free from slaughter. You will be happy to learn that the whole thing was more about a toddler’s grappling with the subtle difference between being eating fish and chips and being dead.
We’re still laughing though.
😉