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: 11-12-2003
Wed, 06-15-2005 - 12:31pm
My grandfather was a cook (at that restaurant in LAX, at the top of the Theme Building)
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Registered: 12-10-2003
Wed, 06-15-2005 - 12:31pm

Maybe once every other night. We brought him in bed with us and everyone went back to sleep. No problem for us. We didn't mind a modified cosleeping arrangement. Although, I could see it being a problem for others.

I have a close friend who is very much like you in regards to sleep and schedules. There is no way she could have done what we did. But it was way more about her and her husband than about their children. Babywise was her guide. She marveled however, how my son could sleep anywhere, how he would ASK to take his naps if it was earlier than normal naptime and easily fell into a bedtime routine. It's not that I didn't have a schedule. I just didn't STRICTLY adhere to it. If I was out and about during naptime, he had no problem taking a two hour nap in his stroller. If we were out at a friends later in the evening, he would just fall asleep there or as he got older went to bed a little later.

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Registered: 03-29-2003
Wed, 06-15-2005 - 12:32pm

The superiority of my parenting is not the issue here. The issue here is your need to protect yourself from opinions that threaten your worldview by completely dismissing the people who proffer those opinions. Other posters are too fat, or too thin, for their views to count. Their kids get Cs. They're too lazy to enforce naps. This isn't a new observation of mine. I wonder why you need me to spell it out again?

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Wed, 06-15-2005 - 12:33pm
Exactly how badly does your 3yo behave if he misses his nap?
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Registered: 09-25-2003
Wed, 06-15-2005 - 12:34pm

It's not that I have more taste buds. . .it's that science is starting to identify what they have termed "super tasters" meaning that the tastebuds of some people are MORE SENSITIVE.


And actually, there have been studies that introverts and extroverts (because those personality types are the most easily measured) have brains that react to certain neurotransmitters in quite different ways. . .So it may not be that my brain is less flexible. . .but is wired to respond to neurotransmitters in a different way.


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Registered: 11-12-2003
Wed, 06-15-2005 - 12:34pm
Or possibly not intelligent enough to understand? ;)
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Wed, 06-15-2005 - 12:41pm

We talk about being good hostesses a lot on this board, but what does that actually mean, and why is it important?

IMO, it's important because when someone is on your turf, among your closest loved ones, that someone is a bit of an outsider. Your guests are a little bit at your mercy. You can take that minor glimpse of power and use it as an opportunity to bring your guest down a peg, to show him that he's not important to you. You could serve meals that obviously don't contain much sustenance for him, and you could then smirk at the fact that he is hungry enough to need several snacks to compensate.

Or you could go the other way. You could spend a little bit of an effort to show your guest that, although he is surrounded by your family and friends and your things, he still matters. You're willing to go to a little bit of trouble to make him feel comfortable. It's just a choice, like any other, I suppose.

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 06-15-2005 - 12:41pm
I'm definitely an omnivore. I didn't realize that when I have spaghetti and salad, I'm trying to "play vegan."
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Wed, 06-15-2005 - 12:43pm

Well I personally think its a pretty poor host who invites someone into their home, knowing they have certain food restrictions (self imposed or not-I dont think its anyones business to make the call as to whether or not their restrictions are *valid* enough), and then not providing anything they can eat. That doesnt mean one has to prepare a strictly vegan meal, but to make sure there is adequate food for all parties attending.


I would still serve a meat dish in my home, even with a vegan there, and I wouldnt tolerate commentary on it (I've known some vegans who were quite obnoxious in their beliefs), but I would also serve dishes that were vegan along with the main dish.


And I dont like inviting people to my home for dinner, while expecting them to bring their own food.


Dj

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-15-2005 - 12:44pm

People can be thin and still have health issues related to diet.

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