What about eating issues?

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What about eating issues?
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Fri, 06-10-2005 - 2:24pm

We have debated sleeping issues to death once again....so what about another one of the issues of childhood....eating and/or not eating?


My kids eat just about anything and have a pretty well rounded diet.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 06-21-2005 - 5:11pm
Didn't you say something about unlined cotton being too uncomfortable for your skin? Would that be a visceral and inborn reaction, or one that you've acquired over the years?
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Registered: 12-03-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 5:12pm

My mds.

He is just a difficult child--he is prone to ehining and crying, he has severe impulse control problems, he frustrates becasue he cannot do everything he wants, he wakes up grumpy and goes to bed grumpy, and although he has lovely moments in between, I doubt we've ver had a whole day without tears, anger, frustration and struggle. I love him immensely. That's never in doubt, but he is just a difficult child. He's better now (4) than he was last year. I didn't know if we'd survive the threes. Or maybe I'm just getting used to it more.

Everyone we know comments on his "spiritedness." Even those people who love him most, need time away from him. (And he needs time away from us, too.)

Were ods and dd my only two kids, I'd probably think you had three ehads when you post sometimes. But instead, I think of my mds, and i feel like I do understand where you are coming from. I just think you are more honest about things than a lot of people.

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Tue, 06-21-2005 - 5:14pm
yes, I have known children at age three who were whiny, demanding, and clingy. But not as a rule, and not so much that people who loved them wanted to take breaks from them -- unless there was some underlying unhappiness in the child.
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Registered: 08-19-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 5:14pm

>>Why do you equate wearing clothes from 1995 with looking bad?<<

I don't. I'm sure there are some clothing items from 1995 that are still stylish and not out of date.

IME, "vintage" refers to a classic piece like a Channel suit or a beaded 1950's cardigan, not old clothes in general. The vintage stores I've frequented carry items that are timeless and therefore never "out of date."

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 5:16pm

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Yep.


Ds is my "troublesome" child. He has such a strong personality. He REALLY frustrates me (and allen). He, too, is getting better, but it is slow progress. This spring (the end of age 4; he turned 5 last week) was a HUGE time of progress fro him; he matured so much.


If all my kids were like dd, I might also be saying "nothing about parenting is negative; its all a bed of roses" like some others here ...


Alas ...



Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 5:17pm

People with whiny demanding kids don't want breaks from said whiny demanding kids?


BWAHAHAHAH.


Ds was very frustrating to us yesteday ... i was so glad when it was bedtime and I had a break ..



Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 08-19-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 5:17pm
My pink ruffled taffeta junior prom dress looked good on me in 1990 - if it still fits me, should I not still wear it now that I'm 32?
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 5:21pm
"The vintage stores I've frequented carry items that are timeless and therefore never 'out of date'". And yet, when pnjsmom says that's what she BOUGHT 10 years ago, nobody believes her. If a vintage store can find clothes that are "timeless and therefore 'never out of date'", I am confident pnjsmom can too because her stated modus operandi has been all along that that is precisely what she looks for in clothes that she buys.
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Registered: 12-03-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 5:23pm

I think you, pnj and I have boys with very similar personalities/temperments.

This reminds me of a thread that Kristi posted a while back--Kristi, are you taking a break from us again? It had to do with the housewives show--name escapes me, I don't watch it, but I'm sure you know which one I mean. One of the moms had run away and was found crying on a soccer field about how being a mother was so hard and no one ever talked about it, so she thought she was the only one to feel that way, or something like that.

Most of the posters here agreed that being a mom is hard, and that talking about it should not be taboo. But it seems that whenever Felicia talks about the difficulties of parenting, or what she misses from her pre-child days, or how it has been such an adjustment for her, she gets scorched. It seems we can say we should talk about it, but we still can't actually talk about it.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 5:25pm
A prom dress should only be worn to a prom. There are some clothes that are situational and will look bizarre outside their proper setting. A prom dress is one. I assume you are never again going to the prom. But if by chance there was another item (jeans, a sweater) that looked good on you then- by all means wear it now if it still fits and is not worn out.

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