Like all families, we have to negotiate the tsunami of junk food that swamps our kids daily. We have food rules but we are an "everything in moderation" family. Right now, we have leftover (homemade) chocolate cake at home and we were out at an event tonight where Katie was offered cake. She apparently accepted and enjoyed her cake. Later in the evening, when she told us about the small piece she had, I told her that she'd reached her limit and she couldn't have a piece of chocolate cake when we got home later. She protested this and told me that this wasn't fair because she was just following the rules. "When you are a kid and someone offers you cake, you *have* to take it, Mommy. You adults can say no because you can just go out and get your own cake anytime you want, but kids can't do that. We depend on cake being offered to us. So we have to take it when someone offers it. HAVE to."
This has become the Katie Mandatory Cake Acceptance rule. As the Chief Justice in the Court of Mom Law, I thought she presented a good case, so I must admit, I almost gave her the second piece of cake. Almost.
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