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I had endeavoured to introduce some vegetal variety to their dinner, in the hopes that their – in fairness, long-established – distaste for peas had worn off. This was folly. The moment I’d sat the offending orbs down in front of them, their grief-stricken faces told me that their hatred for peas had not abated. Absence had not, in this instance, made their hearts grow fonder. No, since their last exposure to the concept of peas, they had clearly spent every waking moment seized by torrid nightmares of their return. My daughter merely burst out crying and threw her plate asunder, casting the spherical projectiles everywhere around. My son looked at me like I was forcing him to eat human flesh. ‘You can’t be serious’ he said, scanning the room for hidden cameras. For the next 20 minutes, catatonia reigned, as they wailed with such ferocity that my heart began to harden. Gone was the gentle urging and soft, coaxing voice. I became as implacable as a tax collector, glaring at them dead-eyed while they sobbed into the table, trapped in one of those pathetic parenting standoffs to which one instantly regrets committing, until there was naught but silence and stifled, sniffled sobs.
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM