#daughterofthebeard

Courtesy of Daughter of the Beard, who recognized the irony even as it left his mouth. 

mammamanna replied to your photo “we all want to be loved.”

Because of what you choose to show me, I see you. because of who you are, I love you. You deserve to be SEEN and LOVED.

i always think of your gigantic little family, mammamanna. i often here RuPaul or somebody verbalizing your screen name in my mind:

“Yes,  mammamanna...eleganza!

 how can someone not look in on you themostinterestingbeard, & the daughterofthebeard, and not feel the power of family & love.

 for opening your lives up to those who want tho share your life, i love you right back.

Thank you daughterofthebeard​ for this submission for today's discussion about how our kids eat! 

My (4yo) daughter is actually a pretty adventurous eater and usually likes most of the food she tries (if she’ll give it a chance). However, that doesn’t mean she always wants to eat. In fact, she usually has much more “important” things to do and it can be a battle just to get her to sit down at the table. Usually the promise of desert, if she eats, can get her to the table but then she is so focused on getting to desert it only takes a couple bites before, "I’m full, can I have desert now?"

BUT! We have a game. We have a game that works almost every time. All we have to do… is encourage her to steal and lie! You read that right, and I’m not sure how I feel about it either.

Here is how it works: First we put some food from her plate on her fork and say, “Phia, I think I’d like to eat this bite so keep an eye on it and make sure no one else eats it!” and then we turn our head to look at something else; she immediately STEALS the bite and eats it; she then taps the person on the shoulder and points to the empty fork and they say, “What!? Who ate my bite?”; then she will LIE and blame it on either someone else at the table or on some mythical squirrel/bear/bird etc… that did it. This repeats and escalates in incredulous disbelief at the disappearing bites until all the food is gone!