Pudding Tips

I wanted to give all the toddlers and parents out there a few tips on pudding.

#1- Choose a flavor that everyone likes. If Mom likes butterscotch and no one else does, Mom will have to eat all the pudding herself.

#2 - Make the pudding ahead of time and put it in several small serving dishes: more than two. Only two servings of pudding per box makes for large servings.

#3- Use a plastic spoon. Metal spoons hurt when they bang against your face and tap on your teeth.

#4 - Cold pudding and sensitive teeth don't mix.

#5 - When toddlers want to feed Mom pudding, let them or there will be alot of screaming.

#6 - When toddlers are feeding Mom pudding, some spoonfuls will be tiny and others will be huge.

#7 - Huge, cold pudding glops off of metal spoons pretty quickly if the server isn't getting it towards the mouth fast enough.

#8 - The mouth is the big open part of the face where the teeth and tongue are: pudding doesn't belong to the sides or top of that area.

#9 - If they tilt the spoon just so, the humongous blob of cold, sticky pudding will fall on Mom's chest and she'll shriek. Then she'll laugh. Then everyone laughs.

#9a - The laughing shakes the pudding blob in different directions and Mom shrieks again.

#10 - If you keep at it, eventually all the pudding will be near Mom's mouth, not just on her shirt and face.

#11 - As soon as they get the hang of it, they can usually shovel spoonfuls faster than Mom can swallow.

#11a - More laughing and faster shoveling equals...more laughing, hence even faster shoveling.

#12 - Moms need to open their mouth with any approaching pudding spoons. Do not think the toddler will wait until your mouth is open.

PS - It's a good idea to have baby wipes or a wet washcloth handy to wipe everyone up after all the pudding is...not in the bowl anymore.