The Locked Cupboard

Our kids, some more than others, love to snack. We repeatedly find Jenna in the kitchen helping herself to whatever is in her reach. And if it's not in her reach she finds a way! It has gotten so bad that Jason decided to move all the snacks into the cupboard above the stove and put a lock on it. Now Jenna finds herself with a stool but no where to go. Jason tells our kids, "If you want something to snack on then eat a piece of fruit." Okay, I agree but. . . what I don't get is what then made Jason do the following. See we just started Eric on oatmeal and I wanted to start introducing him to fruits and vegetables. Since Jason was on base I asked him to pick up a few jars of squash, sweet potatoes and peas. But what does he come home with? I open the grocery bag and find, no kidding, coconut pudding, banana apple dessert and banana pudding.

To Jason, I say this, quoting the movie Ever After,

"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?"

So basically, let's get Eric hooked on sweets now, and then when he gets older let's punish him for being not being able to live without them. Needless to say, I quickly locked up Eric's desserts before he too entered this corrupt system.