1. Carrots can help your eyesight. (Alright, you have to be severely deficient first, which most of our children, thanks to Flintstone's, are not.) What our kids hear: Eating carrots will give you super cool night vision like a ninja! Net effect: carrots are eaten off their plates like mad.2. We have dinosaur stories particularly herbivores like the brontosaurus. What our kids hear: Pretending broccoli is a small tree and eating them voraciously will make you a brontosaurus. Net effect: broccoli is eaten of their plates like mad.
3. Eating fruits and vegetables helps you stay healthy and wards off sickness. (Mostly illnesses they're really not worried about yet, but you don't tell them that part!) What our kids hear: If you eat your fruits and vegetables, you will never get a cold again and I'll never have to help you blow your own nose in public again! Net effect: Fruits and vegetables are flying out of the fridge into our children's mouths like mad.
4. A new study conducted by scientists at The University of Wisconsin suggests that 90 percent of bone growth happens at night. What our kids hear: If I go to sleep earlier and sleep in later, I will be a foot taller tomorrow! Net effect: You can get your children into bed without drama.
4. A new study conducted by scientists at The University of Wisconsin suggests that 90 percent of bone growth happens at night. What our kids hear: If I go to sleep earlier and sleep in later, I will be a foot taller tomorrow! Net effect: You can get your children into bed without drama.
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