What Kids...!

There is a set of one and half year old twins in my colleagues' class which is truly amazing to watch. Why? because they love eating the way boys love girls..!

Quite quiet and well behaved enough in every respect, when they see the plate of food brought before them on the table their eyes take on a visibly different look; they sort of get aglaze with contented happiness. Their senses of hearing, touching and even seeing become temporarily unconscious. They only see food and derive ecstasy in eating, eating and eating.

So fond are they of this that they keep digging their plates eagerly with their spoons to extract out the most inaccessible scrap of food stuck in some obscure corner after they have finished all the tit bits. Then they lick the spoons and their fingers to get whatever was left. Then they turn their attention towards their neighbors' plate and without warning start eating from it right away, spoon or no spoon. If there is no plate within their sight they start hunting for any left overs and fallen bits on the table, on the dirty floor below or even on the bib or shirt of any other child....!

Today, they were served breakfast cereal with milk in a bowl. They finished theirs in a jiffy , then had the common sense to  pick up the bowl and drink straight from it the remaining last drops of the milk. Their two other partners who were also sitting at the same table and had not yet finished accidentaly dropped their bowls. The very next second, the twins together attacked the fallen food and started eating the bits on the floor. One of them picked up the bowl and started licking it. We rushed to remove the bowls and the mess but they were really unstoppable; they began trying to pick up the milk on the table with their spoons.

A great mercy that they didn't lick the table or worse still,  the floor....!

How can anyone love eating to this extent, beats me especially when kids are notorious for the contrary. Now look at my kid, for instance. He takes out more than he takes in and vomits more than he eats. Any new food, sweet food, tasty food, healthy food, bad food and his reaction is always the same, he pukes. When he was as young as seven months old, he would puke even he looked at his bib, spoon or bowl because he knew they spelt food.

He is, I believe, born with a special ability to live without food and to never feel hungry.