Love the @hanshotfirst name. I just watched episode IV with the kids yesterday and had to explain to them how the version of the movie they were watching was wrong and why. That's kind of a weird conversation to have with a 5 and 7 year old, explaining why it's a good thing that Han just blew someone away who didn't fire first.

Anyway, I love these conversations with kids. I have similar ones with my own, including one recently that comes to mind with my 7yo about the economics of one of my iPhone games. I was trying to convince him not to spend his game money to hatch something since we were going camping and wouldn't be able to play it anyway, so it made sense to me to let it hatch on it's own. He blew me away with an in-depth economic analysis as to why (give a number of factors I wasn't aware of) if he hatches it now and does one thing with it, he'll end up (three days later) with more in-game money than he'd have otherwise along with the hatched beast. I was impressed.

And yes, you're not the only one to use various mechanisms to get kids to actually eat their dinner. Sometimes, it can be a bit crazy. :)