This evening I committed what you might call my first lie against Dorothy. She loves sausage, but has never been interested in even trying hamburger. This evening, we grilled some good hamburgers on the grill. We tried putting cheese (another favorite Dorothy food) on both sides of the hamburger to make it more appetizing. I messed up the cheese, and had it wind up sticking to the plate etc. Just as I was serving it to Dorothy, Elizabeth asked her if she'd like some hamburger. I corrected her: "No, Dorothy, would you like to have a big sausage for dinner?"
She gobbled it up.
Well, half of it anyway. And we can't complain about her eating 1/6 of a pound of beef for dinner. But I have now entered that gray realm of morality - is it excusable to mislabel food (i.e., lie about what it is) if doing so will convince my daughter that it's ok to eat?
Posted by Tom Nugent at July 24, 2005 10:19 PM