The Explorer way

Lyla is generally very reticent about eating anything she ever previously decided she didn't like. When she was one, she reacted negatively to a potato, so potato hatred is now an unalterable aspect of her personality. I'm Lyla: I'm a girl, I have blue eyes, and potatoes are the devil's food.

Occasionally, however, she'll move up a room at daycare, so for a week or so Julie and I tap into the imagined ethos of her new classmates to manipulate her into doing our food bidding.

"Lyla, kids in the Explorer Room always eat their tacos."

"Well, I think I will eat all of it," she responds importantly.

"Indeed, Lyla.  It's the Explorer way."