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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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 10:02pm

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That's partially why I don't do more to stop cal's challenging behavior. I think he will grow "into it" as opposed to growing out of it. He wont' ever be one of those kids that is passive and gets bullied or goes along with the crowd. I suspect he'll be the type to resist peer pressure too.


However, in the meantime, I will complain to family and close friends.

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: 12-29-2004
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 10:04pm
Of course, that only gets them fed. Next we have to figure out who gets the "house beverage" and who gets tap water because they didn't bring their own.
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Registered: 09-25-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 10:18pm

A child psychologist MIGHT find touch aversions (and food textures are a bit different from the

Virgo
 
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Registered: 09-25-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 10:23pm

Hey, I'm just lucky she's 14 now. . .she smack wore me out as a preschooler.

Virgo
 
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Tue, 06-21-2005 - 10:23pm

Oh STOP stop STOP with the choices!!! I'm getting a migraine. I have to CHOOSE the choices of beverage?

Why can't they just drink out the hose in the front yard? They expect ME to accommodate their choice of caffeine and not? Alcoholic and not? Sparkling and not? Warm and not? What the heck do you think this is? A friggin restaurant?

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 10:32pm

"My children were both wanted and planned for" - that they fit into your Grand Scheme means nothing as to whether you actually enjoy their company.

I'm glad you get enough of them. I wonder if they feel the same about you.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 10:40pm

Why would you make that assumption? People who claim to enjoy their children and be into doing kid stuff must be lying because its just not possible for anyone to feel that way????


Reminds me of the discussion not long ago regarding the honesty of posters saying they didnt find parenting overly difficult. That same type of comment got put out there-that they must be glossing over things or being less than honest.


Dj

"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 10:47pm

No, previous comments were that there were NO negatives to parenting. None. That it was NEVER difficult. Not that it wasn't overly difficult. And I think that is hyperbole for the sake of argument and this board.



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: 03-16-2005
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 11:06pm
"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 ..." And then maybe, just maybe, you'd get why it's preposterous that people who gripe more about parenting than others get told they're just more honest than everyone else.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Tue, 06-21-2005 - 11:16pm

Not hyperbole. Failure of imagination on your part, I'm afraid.

So far, I've heard that I'm supposed to find it a negative of parenting that I can't jet to Paris on a moment's notice now that I have a child. As I never did that prior to having him, and never cared to, I'm having a real hard time gnashing my teeth and wailing over that one. I fully understand that other people find a wide variety of things to be a negative of parenting in their lives, yet have yet to hear one thing often cited as a negative that applies in my own life. I fail to see how being thoroughly content means I must be dishonest. Don't flatter yourself that I would bother with being dishonest just for the sake of debating with you.

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