{"id":6965,"date":"2017-04-27T20:51:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T03:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2020-07-11T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T14:44:19","slug":"stapleton-four-year-old-eats-dinner-without-having-to-be-yelled-at-whole-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6965","title":{"rendered":"Stapleton Four Year Old Eats Dinner Without Having to be Yelled at Whole Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4-year-old-eats-dinner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7990\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Beau Schwab is like most four year old kids when it comes to eating. If it\u2019s not the actual time to eat, he eats just fine. He\u2019s great with snacks and treats throughout the day, but when he sits down for a meal, it takes constant yelling and prodding to get him to eat anything. \u201cIt can be extremely frustrating said Beau\u2019s mom Kara. \u201cWe will even ask him what he wants, give him that, and still, it\u2019s a fight to get that little bastard to take a bite.\u201d The Schwab\u2019s seem to try everything. \u201cWe will play games, try bribes, threats, nothing seems to be effective,\u201d said Beau\u2019s father Grant. \u201cWe even explain to him there are kids who don\u2019t have any food so he should be grateful. Apparently, he doesn\u2019t seem to care about those kids.\u201d The Schwab\u2019s know it is nothing wrong with them as parents, but it is still frustrating. \u201cEvery other parent of a four year old we know goes through the same thing,\u201d said Kara. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t make it any less painful, however.\u201d Last Tuesday night, something improbable happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Beau sat down for dinner and ate his food without yelling, prodding, cheering, or negotiations. \u201cIt was really amazing,\u201d said Kara. \u201cWe had never seen him do that before, so we were just dumbfounded.\u201d Grant was equally impressed with what he saw. \u201cWe kind of just sat there silent, not saying anything,\u201d said Grant. \u201cIt was a lot like trying not to jinx a no hitter. We waited until two hours after dinner to even congratulate him on what he had done. Really extraordinary.\u201d Kara says there was nothing special about the dinner. \u201cWe had spaghetti and meatballs,\u201d said Kara. \u201cWhich we have eaten several times before and have had to go through the normal painstaking process of begging him to get him to eat.\u201d Kara said she doesn\u2019t expect to have the event repeat itself. \u201cThat might be a lot to ask for. But we will be absolutely thrilled if it somehow does happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-146","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7991,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions\/7991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}