My toddler takes everything so literally! 🙄

New Netflix show Waffles and Mochi about food for kids....my inquisitive, super literal 3 year old loved Episode 1 about tomatoes. episode 2 about salt really scared him and led to me licking a tablespoon of salt off my hand to demonstrate that it would just taste yucky but be perfectly fine otherwise. 😂

The cartoon depiction of taste buds and their reaction to salt and other tastes, plus the blaring red alarm lights that went off after a puppet ate too much salt had him headed down nightmare road. He asked if those little creatures on his tongue were going to be angry at him tonight and when I did my demonstration in the kitchen with salt, he was nearly in tears, covering his ears in fear or the big red alarm he was sure was going to go off.

So I hammed it up at I spit out the salt, laughing and talking about how silly it was and how yucky it tasted and explaining that the little cartoon tastebuds were just a story to try to teach him why some foods and some food combinations taste yucky. Kept it as light hearted as I could, but I’ll bet he has a nightmare tonight....and then he’s going to ask to watch that same episode over and over again until he either conquers his fears or figures it out.

Anyone else have a kid like this? He’s super smart and learned language early, I think that’s a big part of it. He understands and uses hundreds more words and phrases than other kids his age so lay he notices/hears things on TV other kids wouldn’t notice, but still can’t process it and truly understand it.

I don’t know, but this most recent example really hit home and I’m wondering what I can do to either offset how literally he interprets everything or comfort him when he does...other than talking it to death!