It is a holiday meal, and the table is full of foods I do not know.. Read it together, at your pace. Every page is written in your child's voice.
1. On some holidays, the table fills up with special foods. Some of them are new to me.
2. New foods have new smells, new colors, and new shapes. A full holiday table can be a lot for my nose and eyes.
Steamy dishes, strong spice smells, foods touching each other on platters.
3. Here is the good news: my plate is my plate. I get to choose what goes on it.
4. With a new food, I have lots of choices, and every one is okay.
just look at it this timesmell it without tastingtry one tiny bitesay "no thank you" and choose something I knowask a grown-up what is in it
5. "No thank you" is a complete answer at a holiday table. Nobody has to eat everything. Grown-ups skip foods too.
6. Before the holiday, I can ask a grown-up what foods will be there. We can plan for one food I always like to be on the table. Planning makes new tables easier.
7. The meal ends when people push back their chairs and the dishes get cleared. Then come the good parts: games, family, maybe dessert. The new foods were just one part of the day.
In the app, your child can choose what happens next, rehearse lines out loud with Spark, and try different endings — including hearing a kind "no" and being celebrated for respecting it. Parents can also create fully personalized stories.