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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My kids aren't vastly older than yours (though they are older than biancamami's) and my 7 yo and 4 yo's teachers have them for much more than an hour a day.
But the biological need for regularity varies from individual to individual.
I may be slow to warm, but my biological rhythms are more fluid or flexible.
My boys and I are going to a costume party/Potter trivia contest at our local bookstore. Starts at 9 pm, and they pass the books out at midnight.
But you know what? I wouldn't go with a five year old. My oldest started reading Harry Potter at just past his 7th birthday and if I knew now what I knew then, I would have waited a year or two to introduce the series.
I think our kids are lucky to be growing up as the first Harry Potter generation. I know that mine already look back on their childhood and define the time frame by when Harry Potter books or movies are released.
And we found the oldest house in Paris while wandering around a few days ago. It's a place built in 1407 for Nicholas Flamel. The boys were so excited --- the bottom floor of the place is a very expensive restaurant right now --- we peeked in, but no way can I afford a hundred fifty bucks per meal.
Do you always assume a cranky child must be sleep deprived? Kids can be cranky and having a bad day even when they get plenty of sleep.
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
Is your issue with taking a five year old the staying up late part or the subject matter of Harry Potter or how dark some of the later books are getting? I'm curious--what do you know now that you didn't know then?
I will probably be taking all my kids (the little ones will four and five by then), if they want to and it works out that they can stay up that late. There aren't too many Harry Potter books left to come out and I'd like to give the little guys a memory of the excitement that the older kids got.
I am also feeling very lucky to have my kids growing up at this Harry Potter time. It has really shaped my oldest son's life. I can remember when my dh and I were in Dublin six years ago and we stopped in this fabulous book store. I needed to pick up a gift for my 13 year old babysitter back home and I grabbed a copy of (the British version of) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. She loved it and was hooked and handed it around to all her friends. This was way before the whole HP media frenzy. I still think how odd it is that out of all the books to choose, I chose the one that would go on to be the start of a huge phenomenon and my own child would end up being the number one fan.
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