Gaps in Education

I am now making up for a severe deficiency in my children's life experience education. I had a craving for some real fried chicken. You know the kind you either eat out of a bucket, or you spend the rest of the evening cleaning grease from every horizontal surface in your kitchen. I'm talking the REAL thing in all its greasy fattening glory. Well, not being willing to spend my evening scrubbing counters, and having a few extra dollars in my back pocket we called upon the Colonel to provide said feast. As we were sitting down to eat, I began my feast as my children stared blankly at their plates.

"I thought we were having chicken?"

"That is chicken."

(puzzled look)

It was then that my three year old promptly picked up his drumstick by the eatin' end put the entire bone end in his mouth and tried to bite down. I was stupefied, mortified, aghast! I had neglected an integral part of my children's childhood experience. They didn't know how to eat chicken with a bone! When the shock from the realization that I had deprived my children subsided, I was able to give a quick lesson in proper fried chicken eating (i.e. Don't use a fork, and make sure you lick your fingers). They caught on pretty quick, and in no time became fried chicken fans doing justice to their southern heritage.

The moral of the story? You cannot avoid gaps in your children's education, but you can make up for them.