I found an amusing anecdote that I thought I would share. It was from a longer story about the little white lies we tell our kids.
When he was around 3, we went to Kauai for vacation and he discovered Fruit Loops at the hotel’s breakfast buffet. He fell in love and would make a beeline for them every morning. His mom and I weren’t happy about all of that sugar, but let it go as we were only there a week & hoped he would forget about it as soon as he stopped getting his breakfast at a buffet. Wrong. The first morning back home in Seattle, he started getting a little belligerent about wanting Fruit Loops. After a few minutes of firm no’s and trying to reason with him, he was still insisting. So she told him that unfortunately they were a regional food available only in Hawaii. He thought about it for a few seconds and that was it. He calmed down and ate his normal breakfast without further complaint. I thought it was genius.
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