This is another one of those posts that I hesitate to write. We are so, so happy with the eater Henry has become (he eats things like vegetarian sushi and seaweed salad with us!). I want to share our general approach and strategies, but I have no way of knowing if there’s a causal relationship between our strategies and the current outcome or if it’s merely a correlation. 

That’s what happens when your science experiment (er, parenting) only has a sample size of one. 

Regardless, I want to record our approach in this space because I want to adhere to it if we’re lucky enough to have a second child.

Last week I dragged myself to a parent education event at Henry’s school, despite the fact that it was rainy, I was tired, and I didn’t think it was going to be very good. 

Boy was I glad I went! It was awesome. It was all about the importance of crafting a literate life as a family. For example, the presenter told a story about a family who read an old book together about a pony-related festival on the eastern shores of Virginia. Years later, they found a picture book related to the same topic, which led them to suspect that the festival might be real. After a little research,