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it's all in what works for your family
| Sat, 07-18-2009 - 6:38pm |
I don't believe that children that have parents that work outside of the house are at a disadvantage... I also don't believe that children that have a parent that stays at home somehow benifit.

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Well, you've asked me several questions about problems that haven't happened to me, such as kids who won't pick up backpacks, and I did my best to answer.
But I finally understand what your answer is: you don't know what you would do because it hasn't happened to you, which is something I said a million posts ago.
That's sad. My dad tried that with my brother and brussel sprouts (the theory was he couldn't know he didn't like them because he hadn't tried them). After an hour or so of sitting there, he gave in and ate them and promptly threw up.
That was the last time my dad ever did anything like that.
Well, if you've ever barfed chocolate before, it'll put you off eating it for a good while. Ask me how I know that ;)
So if your allergy to it manifested as an upset digestive system, I'm guessing it's not as hard to give up chocolate ;)
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"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .
It is sad. Of course this woman does have an eating disorder (constantly measuring her food, going on extreme diets etc in spite of being borderline underweight). The other thing I find striking is how this seems to be an area where people often reproduce their own upbringing completely unthinkingly.
Years ago, dh and I had dinner with his brother and our combined 4 toddlers/preschoolers. BIL had a rule that his kids had to clean their plates and if they did not, the left over food would be put in the fridge and they had to eat it cold for breakfast. A comment was made that my kid was not eating well or something, and my darling beloved pipes up that maybe we should start insisting on a clean plate too. So, I gave the reasons why not. Both men looked at me with a perplexed expression and said something to the effect of, "but that is how we were brought up and look how splendid we turned out to be." At that point I cracked up, their sister was then on a slim-fast diet, in spite of weighing all of 100 pounds or so and starving her handicapped child, and both guys were between overweight and really overweight. It had never occurred to either of them to link the way they were brought up to their problems with food as adults.
Dh does actually listen to me once in a while, so a clean plate policy was never started at our house, but BIL has soldiered on tirelessly. In case you have not guessed already he is the one who makes his teens eat specified amounts of salad. All 3 of his kids have horrific eating habits.
What did you do when the didn't try the food at all?
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