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.

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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 5:01pm

I'm sorry . . . apparently I've missed a good joke. I haven't read this entire thread. I'm going to sign off now . . . my eyes are buggy . . . and go do something fun, like hang with DS.

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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 5:03pm

I SAH and I do not consider my life as a bunch of downtime interrupted only by sleep, lol. Maybe that will change when the kids are older. Right now, I get my downtime when I go out somewhere or once the kids are in bed.


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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 5:04pm
You mean you missed QM's post that she's a Slacker Mom? I can only infer that Lunchables are on the menu chez QM. Like it or not.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 5:07pm
No. Meaning you can serve meat, *and* you can serve a meal. The meal doesn't have to include the meat if you don't wish to partake.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 5:25pm
You know, I really think you are intelligent enough to figure this one out for yourself. This is another case of you talking to hear yourself talk.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 5:40pm
Well, now, see, there's a difference between you and me. I have learned to prepare different ethnic dishes from friends of those ethnicities; I know the basic rules of kosher cooking and can ask a Jewish friend to what extent he/she keeps kosher, and preparing a meal without use of animal products is no challenge for me whatsoever. We do it several times a week, actually, because it's good for us. I can do Chinese meals from several regions of China, several kinds of Thai curries and other Thai dishes, cajun food, mexican food, and good old southern US of A cooking. I can do a few Indian dishes rather well. I'm not an expert in any of the above, but have had the good fortune to have friends invite me into their kitchens to learn to do different kinds of things. But this is all rather silly anyway, because my Thai friends certainly do not demand that I serve them Thai food at my home. Quite the contrary -- they are usually eager to try the things that we consider family specialties in our home. And sometimes, they even ask for the recipes.


Edited 6/16/2005 6:47 pm ET ET by lois_15354
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 5:44pm

Why do some people find it stressful to WOH FT and have young children? I know some of the reasons, but obviously not all.
For me, it's because my children are happier and less stressed out when they have more time with their mother.

Why do some people think a SAHP is important, yet think they don't need to closely supervise their children?
I think having a SAHP is lovely, and one of the major benefits is that children aren't supervised closely. It's a less regimented, structured, routine-oriented life. That's a good thing, IMO. Children who are overly supervised never develop their own problem-solving and social skills.

Why are some people satisfied with more free time and less money, and others want more money and care less about the amount of free time they have? It depends on how much free time and money you're talking about, I suppose.

Congratulations! I'm so happy to hear it. I just heard the good news and popped back over, just in case you were still checking in.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 5:51pm
I am very confused myself about what is so difficult about all this. My SIL is Jewish. They don't keep strict kosher, but the family doesn't eat pork or shellfish. So I don't serve pork or shellfish when they come over. How difficult is that? I have another dear friend who is diabetic. She and I share a love for good cheese. So I put out some cheese and bread at the end of the meal so she can eat something she considers a treat while everyone else is having dessert. Again, not very difficult. My vegan friends do not demand or expect a fully vegan dinner. They expect that there will be enough food to fill them up. So I make sure to have some sort of hearty grain and vegetable side dish that could also serve as a main course along with a regular vegetable dish. Geez. Some people on this thread are acting like they've been asked to cut out one of their own kidneys and fry it up for their guests or something.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 6:10pm

I think it's a function of age, with the percentage of relaxing/not relaxing ebbing and flowing. Being with dd has grown steadily more relaxing as she's gotten older (now 5). I expect that to change when she hits puberty and the percentage of tense times will shoot back up and possibly surpass the unrelaxing times when she was 2. At least that will be the case if she inherits my reaction to teen hormones. Then again, perhaps she will NOT be a chip off the old block and her puberty will be less turbulent than mine (which was turbulent and unrelaxing for both me and my mom).

My mom and I have discussed this, since now her times with her kids (now all middle aged) are 100% relaxing. She found the baby and toddlerhood exhausting and unrelaxing, but not tense. She found 4-11 to be pretty much what posters here are calling "downtime", with tense times of breathtaking misbehaviour thrown in- but not so frequent that she could never let down her guard. She found our adolescence to contain little "down time" for her when we were together because we fought like cats and...rival cats. It became smooth sailing the minute I (and sibs, later) went away to college and any time we spent together past my 18th birthday (which was in 1980!!) she could characterize as downtime.

So be patient:)

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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 6:14pm

Can I answer, as someone who doesn't eat beef? I would never in a million years announce to my hosts that I don't eat beef. If I'm eating at a friend's house, that friend would probably already know that we don't do the cow thing. At any rate, especially at a barbecue, there are usually plenty of choices. We went to a big bbq party last weekend, and there must have been six different meats to choose from -- chicken salad, grilled chicken, homemade grilled sausage, steak, and meatballs in sauce (Italian family, and I mean a family from Italy).

If I'm invited over for a real dinner, the hosts usually ask if there's something we don't eat. If they don't ask, and all they serve is red meat, then I just pretend to eat it. No harm, no foul.

Congratulations! I'm so happy to hear it. I just heard the good news and popped back over, just in case you were still checking in.

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