Monday, October 4, 2010

The Smell Test.... The Decision-Making Process of Five-Year-Olds

Seth normally eats very little lunch at school. His school makes an announcement about 5-10 minutes after he sits down to eat that the kids can go outside and play when they finish eating. When Seth hears the announcement, he immediately throws everything in his lunch bag and heads out the door.

Mom usually packs him a lunch that he can sit down and eat quickly. Today she threw him though by packing a new type of yogurt. Lydia enjoys it, and she thought she'd let him try it. When he came home today, he told Mom he liked it.

He then explained how he decided to try it. He said he saw the package and wasn't sure about it. He asked his favorite pool friend from the summer Whitney (who is in the other kindergarten class and not sitting with him) to smell it and see if she thought it would be ok to eat. He passed the open container through all the (germy handed, dirty little) kindergarteners between him and Whitney and back. She yelled that it smelled ok, and she thought it would be ok to eat. He took her word and tried it. He decided he liked it. If only Whitney could come home with him and smell all his food... he would be a lot less picky.

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