Frequently adults are so busy with planning holiday meals, cleaning for the company and simply preparing all the little details, that they don’t stop for a minute to check in with their children to ask them what they think about the holiday or what they would like to see served at the meal.
Just for fun, I decided to ask each one of my piano students what their favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner was. My students range in age from 5 through adult, so the answers were quite varied. The usual, expected answers were things like the turkey, the stuffing, the mashed potatoes and gravy, the pumpkin pie, etc. However, one of my students took me by total surprise and I found myself doubled over, laughing hysterically. I asked, “Susanna, what is your favorite part of Thanksgiving Dinner?” She thought very carefully and then looked at me and said in a most serious tone, “When it’s over!” My immediate response was, “I guess that means you don’t like turkey, right?” She then leaned close to me and whispered, “Miss Fern, you must know–I am a very picky eater!”
So the next time you are sitting at your holiday meal, enjoying all the fixings, you can be certain that there are definitely children out there who just cannot wait for the meal to be over so that they can go back to their favorite macaroni and cheese!