My two friends have a gorgeous two and a half year old daughter. She is their first, intelligent, and precocious.  Jennifer is the type of friend, who in one conversation, I can exhaust my entire cell phone battery!  Catching up usually takes place either when I'm at the airport waiting for my flight or when the baby is down for a nap.
 

My two friends have a gorgeous two and a half year old daughter. She is their first, intelligent, and precocious.  Jennifer is the type of friend, who in one conversation, I can exhaust my entire cell phone battery!  Catching up usually takes place either when I'm at the airport waiting for my flight or when the baby is down for a nap. 

In our last catch up session, she shared the funniest thing.  At lunch time earlier that day, she had prepared a salad for herself and was feeding her daughter a standard lunch of mashed veggies and yogurt.  Now this little girl is very much like her mom in personality and also eating habits.  On many previous occasions, Jen would share her salad with her little one.  Sounds like a good thing, right.  So this time she decided to take some of her salad and put it into a separate bowl for her daughter.  Again, sounds like a good idea, right?  Wrong. 

The baby wanted nothing to do with her own bowl of salad, but rather wanted to share mommy’s bowl. She pointed, she fussed, and she won.  Mom shared her salad and all was good again.  This story reinforced what we all have read and heard:  your child emulates your behavior, and that includes your eating habits. So next time you sit down to a plate of food, remember your little one is watching.