Dinner time fun!

In our house we time-out, only it's different than maybe how anyone else does it. Our kids have to stay in their room (on a chair) until they choose to be happy. It puts the child in control of when they come out. And we want them to be with us so we tell them to hurry and decide because we miss them. Well, during the dramatics at dinner tonight, my son was freaking out and we told him he needed to choose to be happy. In an instant, he gets down from the table and disappears. We shrug. A few minutes later, he comes back all happy and cheery! He put himself in time-out until he chose to be happy! It cracked me up!

Then, we had bean sprouts in dinner and he kept wrinkling his brow, "Worms" he said and pointed a chubby finger to our dinner. Hubby even picked one up and ate it, much to the son's skepticism. Finally we convinced him they were sprouts and not worms.