Parents are constantly looking for ways to please their children. While we don’t want to admit it at all times, we do want our kids to be happy. Sometimes, we don’t always agree with the things that make them happy, but, we find ways to make it work anyway. After all, our kids happiness is our happiness, too. Right?
Every parent has gone through the whole ‘we have food at home’ discussion with their kids.
When your kids love a particular food or restaurant, they are constantly asking to go there. We all know the pattern: We drive past a place and our kids begin begging us to go.
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Those cravings can be super real.
Like our kids, we, too, go through those times when we’re just craving our favorite place. We even have to have that talk with ourselves and say, “we have food at home.”
Sometimes, no matter how great we cook, it’s just not the same as takeout.
Craving something so specific and trying to replace it with something else never tastes as good. We try to tell ourselves we’re doing the right thing but, hey, nothing tastes as good as what we really want, right?
However, there are ways around the whole dilemma.
We may not be able to fool ourselves, but we can pull a fast one on our kids — especially the young ones. Sometimes, the little white lies pay off. Every parent knows that.
It’s no secret that every kid loves a McDonald’s Happy Meal.
The one thing every kid wants, when it comes down to it, is a Happy Meal. We drive past those golden arches and our kids are drooling all over our back seat.
But, when you have food at home, you have food at home.
Not to mention, McDonald’s isn’t the healthiest option for our young ones. So, one mom came up with a brilliant solution to combat the “I want a Happy Meal” conversation that our kids are constantly bringing up.
Facebook user Tanesha Baldwin shared her hilarious and clever hack on social media to help out all parents.
She wrote, “My son loves McDonald’s. But let me tell you who ain’t finna [sic] be running cross that street every time he wants ‘chiccy nuggets and fren fwies [sic].'”
I mean, who else’s child does this?!? All of ours.
So, she became innovative.
“Like the innovative mom I am, I got a solution for allat [sic]!!! … I made sure he ain’t tear up the boxes like he usually do and I saved the containers[…] I had the whole meal already in the freezer, the trick was to make sure it’s shoestring fries [because] the little crumb snatcher knows the difference,” she said in her Facebook post .
Her son totally bought the entire thing!
She added, for a parenting tip, that if you want to make it truly believable, you can throw in a toy. That way, they think it’s a real Happy Meal!
When Tanesha shared her brilliant hack on Facebook, it went viral with many parents commenting that they were going to do this with their kids. I love it!
Last Updated on August 26, 2020 by Lex Gabrielle
