Who has influenced your sah/woh

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Who has influenced your sah/woh
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Thu, 02-09-2006 - 2:39pm

opinion to DIFFER. What I mean is--is there anyone on this board or in real life whose opinion/reasoning/debating/facts started to make your thinking more to the middle? As in if you thought sah or woh was best & then after some discussion/thought, you began to think that whatever is best for each family--really there is no one best way, etc.

We just really needed a new thread here!!!!!!!!

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 1:31pm

Because you have listed a lot of reasons as to why you don't serve bread after lunch, mostly basic common sense ones, but I still haven't seen one from the nutritionist or one directly related to your children's medical condition.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 1:33pm
Why don't you get to sleep much when camping?

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 1:33pm

ITA


PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 1:35pm
I was just about to post the same thing. I can find much better ways of providing nutrition than giving them fruit snacks and they don't miss them. Then again, they also don't get juice on a regular basis either, even if it is 100% fruit juice.
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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 1:35pm
i dont know, when it is your daughter you see kissing on a boy it sure looks sexual :)
Jennie
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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 1:36pm
Ok Children with dsyphagia tend to stay with one thing. It is hard for them to fluctuate from food to food. So my son loves bread and my little one loves crackers. Instead of fighting with them over this issue at night I don't serve these foods. Unless I have a variety of food for my dd to play with and eat she won't ever do it. It is very complicated to explain. I guess it is more so for her medical condition and his love of bread we just don't do it. There are a lot of foods that we don't serve at certain times because of these issues. If my son is having a hard time with acid reflux we don't go to a pizza place and eat. He can't have it. So we don't serve it or go there. It is really hard to explain how this works. I guess I am just not doing a good job of it. We also know not to serve pizza for lunch and spaghetti for dinner. That would be disaster for our son.

 

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 1:36pm
I think peer ressure plays a part on some occassions, but it's hardly the strongest motivator. The strongest motivator is biology. It's purely social convention that has people (here at least) being told to wait 5,6,7 years AFTER puberty before having sex. Our bodies certainly didn't evolve that way and highschool students are being told to essentially fight against what their hormones are ordering them to do. In order to convince them that they should override biology at least until X happens (highschool graduation/college graduation/engagement/marriage/whatever our personal timetable is) we need to have some very solid arguments on the "con" side. Because nature has sent a very convincing "pro" argument running through their veins at the onset of puberty and overriding that will take some convincing.
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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 1:38pm
Yes, I'd rather they have a clementine or apple any day.

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 1:40pm

Great conversation. We went through this last year when my daughter was picking a college. Some of her friends chose to stay local, in part, because of boyfriends. My dd chose to go away. Her reasoning, "I will only get this chance once. If our relationship is going to make it, it will make it with me 2 hours away from him." IMO, pretty good reasoning for a 17 year old :)

Robin

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 1:42pm
Since you asked, the government has actually put in its 2 cents with age of consent laws which is 16 in (I think) most states. Which of course they made not to prevent 15 year olds from having sex with each other, but to prevent (or prosecute) adults from having sex with 15 year olds and younger. I don't know how excatly the lawmakers arrived at age 16, but it does "feel" right to me as a legal age of consent.

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