I don't know if any of you watch South Park, but yesterday's conversations with Little Bug reminded me of the Chewbacca Defense. Here's the link, but be ware that there are plenty of bad words in it...
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103454/?searchterm=Chef+Aid
Little Bug has been having difficulty with eating again, but more in a "I'm finally 2 developmentally and I am going to push your buttons" way then in a sensory way. This of course means that at dinnertime there are tons of negotiations. I put food on his plate and he immediately yells Yucky and pushes the plate away. We eventually divide up the plate to the point where I get him to eat what he wants and he doesn't complain so much.
Last night, he used a beautiful argument- HIPPO! This was shouted, whispered, and said every time we asked him to eat. What might you ask does this have to do with dinner? NOTHING! That is what makes it a beautiful argument. It distracts you from the point at hand and is ridiculous and forces you to not be so frustrated. All the while, the child gets to not eat his dinner as you are mulling what Hippo could mean- was there a hippo on his plate, did we talk about hippos, is it animal month at school?
Nope, just Hippos. Much like the Chewbacca Defense, it has *nothing* to do with the subject at hand, and yet is hard to argue with.
One day, Little Bug may well create a new defense- the HIPPO defense. Heaven knows that he thoroughly distracted me with it many times last night. Now, if I could only use the Hippo defense as a grownup....
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