Chew and swallow

It's almost 6:30 PM, we've been sitting here since about 5:45 PM. For the past 45 minutes all I've heard is Galen whine. "Daddy, I gotta tell you something. It won't swallow." He's been chewing on a piece of something since then and can't/won't swallow. We tried time; if you don't swallow by whenever, dinner's over, no applesauce. We tried water; wash it down. Nope, didn't work. Not even with a straw.

Is it control? Hard to tell. But now I'm sitting here with him, biding my time, keeping him sitting, keeping him from spitting it out. Watching fun time slip away...