Why does my infant only seek restricted items?

My 8-month-old just wants to put cursed stuff into his mouth.

My nasty ass flip-flop, baby crack.

The muffins I prepared fresh this morning: dog poop, not going anywhere near his lips.

My nasty home keys are wonderful.

Homemade meatballs are filthy and only suitable for throwing on the floor.

My TV remote is a delicacy.

Expensive salmon. Darn: inedible.

Any article of clothing: nectar of life.

Literally any purée: poison.

When I tell my baby she can’t eat yogurt melts, she cries out for them. Reverse psychology sometimes works lol.

Oh absolutely, I will place her snacks or toy on the table and say, "Oh no, you cannot have this! “Do not touch it!!!”

She’ll grab it with a shit-eating grin, like, “Haha screw you, I’ll take it.”

Yes! It’s always the “tell me no and watch me do it anyway” face :joy:

Ngl, as an adult in her 30s, I have to confess yogurt melts slap :purple_heart::joy:. I remember snatching them from my small brothers and sisters when I was little, and when my baby reaches the age where he can eat them, I’ll definitely steal them from him as well :joy::joy: The apple cinnamon cereal puffs are also delicious :joy:.

lol it’s fun when the babies want to share. I eat them with her lol.

Oh try eating some of his food. My baby wants to devour anything coming close to my mouth, so when he sees me eating something of his tray, he immediately wants to take it. Helps us during the majority of the meals!

As in for the flip flops, as Syndrome put it, when everyone is special, no one becomes special, so just clean it and allow your kid to take it a few times and like magic, the interest disappears :joy:

Unfortunately, snatching his food does nothing for him; he simply stares at me like “good luck with that”

My baby also loves forbidden things.

It’s almost as if babies have a built-in radar for the objects we don’t want them to touch.

Exactly, and you’d think they’d have built-in radar to protect themselves from poisonous berries or whatever. But instead, he goes right for the power cords to try out his new fangs.

Appetite reduction in toddlers is linked to the ability to walk. We didn’t have electric cables everywhere even a hundred years ago; humans have been around for about a half-million years.

Toddlers make sense when you consider that human tribes used to have a large number of nursing mothers and elderly individuals to keep an eye on them.

Why do people crave something more when you try to take it away? :sweat_smile:

Babies usually seem to have a talent for desiring the one thing they aren’t meant to have; it’s like a hidden superpower!