What about eating issues?
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What about eating issues?
| 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.

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<<You've given me no reason to believe that you understand Joey's temperament or are making any effort to deal with what you describe as his whiny, demanding, and manipulative personality.>>
Why should she? What are you to her or Joey?
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.
Bailey is very smart, unbelievable smart, and he clearly understands, "YOu cannot take the bag of cheerios onto the carpet," or "Get out of the pool now," or "Come lay down," or "You need to leave your shoes on." And he does trust me, and his father, and his grandmother.
Nine times out of ten, he refuses anyway. Just about every single thing he does, even small stuff, takes struggle. He just does not like to be told what to do, and he fights it. He fights everything. That is just part of who he is.
For you to claim that nine times out of ten, kids just don't understand what they are told to do, or trust the person telling them, might be truwe of your kids. Might also be true of one of my three. But that doesn't mean that other kids out there simply behave differently, and it isn't because we are bad parents.
Yep.
When Callahan had his first offical Parent/teacher conference last fall,
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.
<<She doesn't shop with them, she doesn't go to church with them, she doesn't exercise with them, and she prefers not to socialize with them.>>
And that equates to not enjoying them? Because those are the only activities that would indicate enjoyment of one's children. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
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But you don't know that she hasn't tried ways. That's a biased assumption on your part. And it also implies that they have no positive family interactions, which is a biased assumption as well.
<<But if I had a kid who was consistently demanding, manipulative, and whiny, to the extent that I sought ways to avoid being with said kid,>>
Again, interpretation and bias. I don't think she avoids being with said kid, but instead avoids being with said kid in situations that aren't a good fit with his natural temperament. If the kid is a pita in the grocery store, don't take the kid to the grocery store. That isn't avoiding the kid; that is avoiding puttin the kid in a situation that causes him to be a pita. HUGE difference.
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.
I have been to a parenting coach and the biggest thing she said to do was to disengage with Zak. It is infinitily hard. If he does not do his homework, shrug it off and go on with life. Tell him he has to face the consquences. Beforehand, I was making him stay at the kitchen table until it was done. One night, he stayed until 10:00 when I finally sent him to bed. Making an ultimatum out of something with him is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. The game is on and the battle of wills has started.
Some friends have expressed disbelief at that story. He really stayed until 10? Did you make him sit there the next night too? No, because he would still be there.
A famous story about his father is his grandfather made him sit at the kitchen table until he apologized for something. Devin did not think he should. He sat there for three days. Zak gets it honestly.
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