It’s not always easy to get kids to try new things, butJennifer Garnerhas found a sneaky way to make her children look forward to it.
“I’ll say, ‘Just try a bite of this,’ and they’ll say, ‘Can we play “Like it, Love it, Want More of it?” ‘ ” the actress, who’s mom to sonSamuel Garner, 7½, plus daughtersSeraphina Rose Elizabeth, 10, andViolet Anne, 13, told theSkimm.
“They’ll take a bite and we’ll narrate it like we’re a broadcast announcer,” explained Garner.
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She then launched into an example, putting on her best sports-broadcaster voice for the demo.
“We’ll say, ‘Oh,look, Sam Affleck has themeatball on his fork. The fork is going to his mouth. Sam Affleck is … it is in his mouth. He is chewing! He’s chewing, he’s chewing, he’s swallowing! You can’t tell what he’s thinking — what is he thinking? And the verdict is … !’ ” Garner chanted.
“And he’ll say ‘Love it,’ because our goal is if youdon’tlike it, you say ‘Like it’ — I’m sorry, it’s lying, but true,” the13 Going on 30star said. “If you [actually] like it, you say, ‘Love it.’ ‘Wants more of it,’ you want some more of it.”
“You’re never supposed to say, ‘Ew, gross,’ ” she added, further explaining the premise of the game.
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But sometimes it’s not about trying new foods — rather, just generally getting her kids (whom she shares with exBen Affleck) to eat. Speaking toKelly ClarksonWednesday on her new talk seriesThe Kelly Clarkson Show, Garner said the secret is to pretend like you didn’t put any effort into preparation.
“The harder you work on a meal, the less likely they are to eat it. When you really sweat and you’ve really tried something new, that’s when they’re just like, ‘I’m not hungry, thanks,’ ” she joked on the show. “The trick is to care less. Don’t wear caring on your face.”
“I have one who’s quite a foodie,” she said of daughter Violet, whom she recruited to taste-test a smoothie. “She’s like, ‘This is kind of “banana forward” for me.’ I was like, ‘Who are you?’ “
source: people.com
