When I was a kid I would look at those variety packs of cereals on the grocer’s shelf and think, “Wow!” They were so attractive. And the idea of slitting open one side of a package of cereal and pouring in your milk and eating it straight from the box sounded very exciting. They had a diagram on the side showing exactly how it was done.<\/p>\n
It’s odd what can be inviting and exciting to kids.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week H.o.p. suddenly had a fixation on getting the variety pack of cereals. He doesn’t even like cereal, but he saw the variety pack in a movie and wanted it. He figured it would all have to be great. “You know how I don’t like Cheerios any more?” he said. “I bet I’d love these.”<\/p>\n
I know H.o.p.’s tastes. “You will hate them,” I said. “You will love the boxes but hate the cereals.”<\/p>\n
We purchased a variety pack for him.<\/p>\n
He first tried one of the Fruit Loops and spat it out. Then he tried a Cocoa Krispie. And spat that out.<\/p>\n
I see no harm in him opening every single box at one sitting and trying it out because I know he’ll hate each one.<\/p>\n
He licked a Kellog’s Frosted Corn Flake. “Yuck!” I ate the rest of that box because I like frosted corn flakes but would never buy them for myself and haven’t had them in 25 years.<\/p>\n
“Will I like these?” he said brandishing the Corn Pops.<\/p>\n
“No.”<\/p>\n
By now he trusted me on the matter.<\/p>\n
“What about these?” he asked, holding up the Apple Jacks.<\/p>\n
“No. You will hate those.”<\/p>\n
“What about the Honey Smacks?”<\/p>\n
“Hate, hate, hate. You won’t like them.”<\/p>\n
“They do look barfable. Like raisins made out of honey.”<\/p>\n
“Hmmm, I guess.”<\/p>\n
“At least the boxes are fun,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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