I can't get over what people will feed their kids!

[autumn]

*nods* I hear ya. I spent some time on a political forum and a pro-choice forum, and boy...I learned some new words!

I imagine being in public health you have a very unique perspective. Mine is limited to being a parent only. As I was writing my post, I wasn't thinking at all about anyone here but instead about a handful of individuals who were more than happy to provide unsolicited instruction back when my girls were small. Man, that drove me nuts.

Yep, you get tougher and expand your vocabulary. I won't even say what kind of forum it was b/c they should have known better.

Public health is eye opening. I learned some people have absolutely no desire to promote health.

Oh, the unsolicited parenting advice is everywhere. I could write a whole thread on it.

 

[Peaceful Rainbow]

I remember our annual trip (yes, once per year!) to Pizza Hut was on the last day of school. My mom would take me, my sister and a friend each to Pizza Hut. It was a treat.

We do the once a year to Pizza Hut, too, because the last couple summers the boys got free personal pizzas as part of the summer reading program at the library. Though last time my oldest was too big to be full from that and got spaghetti, too.

I would love to run around with a wand and change the way the kids today are eating, but they aren't mine. I'd never say anything to anyone about what their kids are eating and thankfully, mostly because our friends all eat healthy, I've not had to deal with anyone taking me to task for NOT letting them eat the junk.

As they get older though, things change. Their baseball club has a concession stand and last year we agreed that at games, with their own money they could get certain things. Fortunately that's only a couple months out of the year. They are pretty good about it and it was funny last week when the 10 yr old won the hitting contest and his "prize" was a Gatorade. He shared some with his brother and it took him a couple days to finish it.

 

[gettingfitmom]

Every once in a while my DS won't want to finish his dinner. We warn him that there will be no dessert and no snack later if he doesn't finish what's on his plate. If he agrees, then we take the plate away and that is all he gets for the night. If he's truly still hungry but just trying to get out of eating what is in front of him then his appetite will "magically" come back and he'll finish what he was given. LOL

We did this with our DS, he's 14 now and eats everything. My DH grew up with having to eat Everything on his plate or he got more! I was raised with having to at least try everything.