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Yes! Have alternatives available. But don't make the Oreo into some forbidden fruit.(OK, if it was a fruit, we wouldn't be all Mom-like about this and want to forbid it in the first place . . . :) . . . you know what I mean.)
 
My DS eats his fair share of junk. But, amazingly, for a boy who is a pretty picky eater, if there are celery sticks and strawberries available, he'll choose those most of the time.
 
And someone mentioned not beating ourselves up -- this is such good advice imo. We are all trying to do our best. We change over time. Our kids change. Allow yourselves the freedom to change without a ritual denigration of former thinking.
 
My 2 cents anyway! :)
 
Nance
 
 
In a message dated 6/1/2004 11:51:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
> It seems we have done this. So how do we best handle the
transition
> time?

Ride it out.  :)  And do have healthy stuff at hand as well.  Not
things that are hard for the kids to just grab or that need prep. 
My kids love having a veggie platter in the fridge... chopped up
veggies and a dish of ranch dressing... sliced cheese on a plate
covered in plastic in the fridge... and some crackers... think of
things that are easy to grab.  I even eat "junk" if I'm not feeling
like prepping something - even if I'm craving something healthy. 

[email protected]

<<<My DS eats his fair share of junk. But, amazingly, for a boy who is a pretty picky eater, if there are celery sticks and strawberries available, he'll choose those most of the time.>>>

I think it's really important to stop treating some food as junk or bad. Food is just food.

When you continue to attach lables to the food your kids are going to pick up on that. You can smile swwetly and not say anthing as you son or daughter grabs cookies instead of an apple, but if you consider it "junk" and call it "junk" your kids WILL pick up on it and it will continue to be a power/control issue.

Let food just be food.

~Rebecca
--
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help."
-Calvin

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Ok, my turn,  I have an overweight son. What would be the "right" way to handle this situation, being unschoolers.  I do not monitor (or try not too) his food, I do have to remind him to slow down when eating.  I stopped buying junk food, but that doesn't stop the eating.
This has been on my mind for years.  I don't ever want him to think I think less of him for being heavy, and I have always told him how much he is loved no matter what, and that we just want his body to be healthy.
  any ideas?
thanks
syndi
 
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he
is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher

Dana Matt

Maybe instead of worrying about the food, try as a
family to burn more calories....Plan a hiking or
biking vacation? Take up ice skating or swimming? If
you do enough exercise you will burn up the
calories....
Dana
from Montana
--- Onesnotenough@... wrote:
> Ok, my turn, I have an overweight son. What would
> be the "right" way to
> handle this situation, being unschoolers. I do not
> monitor (or try not too) his
> food, I do have to remind him to slow down when
> eating. I stopped buying junk
> food, but that doesn't stop the eating.
> This has been on my mind for years. I don't ever
> want him to think I think
> less of him for being heavy, and I have always told
> him how much he is loved no
> matter what, and that we just want his body to be
> healthy.
> any ideas?
> thanks
> syndi
>
> We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we
> forget that he
> is someone today.
> Stacia Tauscher
>





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