Adrian is a slow and distractible eater. Ingrid used to be the same, but is the opposite nowadays. I think she’s been forced to learn to eat fast at school. I remember in grade 0 she used to get stomach aches because they had so little time to eat lunch. She’d start out slow and then finish at a frantic pace. Now it’s a more even, consistently fast pace.

I believe in family meals taken together, so I encourage her to stay at the table until everyone has finished. She gets rather bored while waiting.