Ice Cream for Burger...

2009, February 17, Tuesday

I brought Ivan and Immanuel to Mac's today. Forced him to eat a McChicken. He had never taken this burger before. He hates the sight of the white cream and the green vegetables. It really puts him off. I didn't really give him a choice. I brought the boys there and got them seated while, I ordered the lunch. I passed him his burger and simply told him, "If you can finish this burger, I will get you an ice-cream". He was very disappointed when he saw all the white stuff and the green vegetables. But for the sake of the reward (ice cream) he braised himself for the challenge.

This could not have been a great achievement, if Ivan had not shown me his new interest last week. Last Saturday, I decided to buy in lunch and so I did. We had burgers and fries and a sundae. Ivan got his fillet-o-fish (with all the tartar sauce scrapped out, as usual). As we sat down to eat, shockingly, he was shifting the bowl of fries nearer to him. He started to eat the fries, he normally doesn't like the fries unless it's cheese fries at KFC. Once we finished lunch, I took out the sundae for Immanuel, with an angry look, Ivan snatched the Ice cream from his brother. So they shared. Making use of this incident, I chose the same kind of food and the ice cream but I changed the burger, leaving the rest a constant.

In the end, instead of the sundae I got them each the ice cream on a cone that they could finish faster. Ivan does have a habit of eating stuff that he likes at a very, very, very slow pace. He savors every moment of his food.

Result: Success! success! He finished his burger and got his ice cream which he still took pretty long to finish.

-bittersweetz-