My little boy isn’t what you might call a dainty eater. He smears spaghetti sauce in his hair. He grabs hunks of sausage and mashes them on his face until his eyebrows are painted with grease and flecks of fennel. He’s never met a spoon he likes as well as his fingers, and he’s never met a fork at all — something about the way he wields a breadstick makes me sure he would see the fork as an ideal weapon.
To make matters worse, I’m not exactly chill about him eating off tables in public restaurants. He can’t be trusted with a plate (unless it’s at a Greek restaurant where throwing plates is part of the action), he rips up those silicone placemats that suction to the table, and he thinks nothing of licking the table to get up that last pile of mashed potatoes.
No matter how many times I clean or sanitize the tabletop, I never really feel like it’s the same as eating off his little high chair tray at home. For a while I just went through two packs of sanitizing wipes every time we ate at a restaurant, hoping I would feel better about having him eat directly off the public table. Then, I found these — the greatest thing about eating out with kids since crayons and paper menus.
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