SC - chopsticks use?

[Phil & Susan Troy]

Bonne of Traquair wrote:
> 
> >and came back with some "trainer" chopsticks for her.  Basically they
> >were the same break-apart chopsticks, but he had added a small roll of
> >paper between them near the top, and a rubberband at the top holding
> >the two together, making more of a tweezers sort of thing.  She was
> >delighted.  Has anyone else seen this before?
> >
> >Tyrca
> 
> Seen it?  Heck, I've made 'em!  We had eaten at a resteraunt that
> actually had chopstick/tweezer things for the kids.  The girls both
> managed to bring theirs home, but they were supposed to be disposable
> and so broke a few meals later.   Inspired, I cut and whittled two
> little pieces from another chopstick into "dumbells", carved out a
> little cradle at the top end of two more pair of chopsticks (think
> Lincoln Logs) and rubberbanded the peices together.  These lasted for
> years, until each girl realized she could manage regular chopsticks.
> 
> Bonne

Those surely are great, and very common, but you can also get small-sized kid
chopsticks in various Asian markets, and if the kid is introduced to them
early, it usually takes no more effort or time to learn to use them than it
takes a kid to learn to use a spoon or a fork. My son has been using his since
age three, but now uses the adult size ones, now that he's a _big_ boy of
seven. (But yes, he still spears his dumplings ;  (   ! )

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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