re: Are Parents Killing Their Kids With Kindness?

Alaskadood — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:39:23 GMT

Parents are killing their kids with ignorance and stupidity.

re: Are Parents Killing Their Kids With Kindness?

Note Taking Nerd — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:27:43 GMT

"Kids Will Always Take The Sugary Way Out"

I have a 2 1/2 year old nice and when it comes time to eat lunch if I give her the option between eating a salad or an ice cream cone, guess what's getting chose every single time.

The other day we were at the grocery store and I made the mistake of not strapping her into a cart. While cruising around on foot she was grabbing everything within eye sight.

We cut through the chips/crackers section to get to the soymilk and I cringed at what happened next.

She was lagging behind and I look back and she had a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos in her hand. She looked at me and said "I like these."

Egh.

This is sooo telling into what she see's consistently at home.

And guess what? I had her put em back and later she saw at eye level "surprise, surprise" those Pepperidge Farm cheese flavored goldfish and I bought them.

Now she probably ate only 20, maybe 30 of those teeny crackers because I did jumped on the grenade.

I ate the rest of them. Yeah, I liked em but in the back of my mind was the belief that she needs me to protect her. That's my number #1 job. This comes from my desire to express love to her.

Kids don't deserve for us to pollute their bodies with all the processed junk available.

Our small children can only follow our example. Why would we sentence them to life of pain because we can't control our own eating habits?

Are we following the same dysfunctional programming passed on by our parents?

If so we are lucky because we have the power of choice. We don't have to follow the crowd. We can lead our children to health by making better eating decisions.

Isn't that cool?

Note Taking Nerd #2
http://www.mynotetakingnerd.wordpress

re: Are Parents Killing Their Kids With Kindness?

Islander — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:45:53 GMT

What confounds me is how parents can be unaware that their kid has a problem - or maybe aware, but clueless what to do about it. Likely these parents are role-modeling eating habits for their children. If they are going for shortcuts, fast food, takeout, ready meals, bagged snack foods and sodas - and if these foods are kept in the house - well, there's the problem, innit?