diet and misunderstanding
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<< Should she simply follow her taste buds,
she could still get into trouble..... >>
When kids are allowed free choice, they don't go by taste buds.
It's seeming impossible for some people to begin to grasp what we're talking
about. Kids who have free choice eat protein, vegetables, fruit. Not ONLY
those, but they eat all kinds of food, by choice. And when it has been
choice (because they become hungry for all kinds of foods--the body balances
itself), they have no aversions to any foods they've been forced to eat.
The same way my kids will play with dictionaries or maps for fun, because
those things have not been identified as "educational" or "school stuff,"
they will eat the kinds of foods that some families have to force. Holly
prefers broccoli and spinach over all other vegetables, and will request them
for lunch in a house full of all kinds of foods, or from the store.
My kids reject American cheese and want Colby or Cheddar. They think
American cheese is yucky. I do too, but I didn't tell them so. I offered
them both and they rejected the "cheese food."
They reject processed meats. They think pork rinds are poison. The only
want real meat they've seen clean, and rarely even that--they don't at all
prize or crave meat, as my husband does who had to eat lima beans and other
tacky vegetables to get his very small portion of meat for years and
years--to this day he will eat NOTHING with peas in it because his mother
laughed at him and said he did TOO like peas, and he was TOO going to eat
them. I can picture it clearly, because she once told me "yes you are" when
I told her I wasn't going to eat tongue for lunch at her house. "Yes you
are." Guess whether I did.
So those who think the children of those families in which there is freedom
to eat food are all eating ice cream and donuts are wrong and hugely wrong.
I wouldn't have believed it before I saw it, but I'm totally glad I've seen
it.
Last night Kirby took two of his older (college age) friends out to eat,
because they've treated him several times. So he took $30 of his own money,
and they went to IHOP. It's not a health food restaurant, but neither is it
burgers or pizza or an ice cream shop. I doubt that he ordered anything
junky; I doubt that he ordered dessert. He probably had milk, or maybe soda.
If it had been breakfast he would have ordered juice, even in the total
absence of parental witness.
Sandra
she could still get into trouble..... >>
When kids are allowed free choice, they don't go by taste buds.
It's seeming impossible for some people to begin to grasp what we're talking
about. Kids who have free choice eat protein, vegetables, fruit. Not ONLY
those, but they eat all kinds of food, by choice. And when it has been
choice (because they become hungry for all kinds of foods--the body balances
itself), they have no aversions to any foods they've been forced to eat.
The same way my kids will play with dictionaries or maps for fun, because
those things have not been identified as "educational" or "school stuff,"
they will eat the kinds of foods that some families have to force. Holly
prefers broccoli and spinach over all other vegetables, and will request them
for lunch in a house full of all kinds of foods, or from the store.
My kids reject American cheese and want Colby or Cheddar. They think
American cheese is yucky. I do too, but I didn't tell them so. I offered
them both and they rejected the "cheese food."
They reject processed meats. They think pork rinds are poison. The only
want real meat they've seen clean, and rarely even that--they don't at all
prize or crave meat, as my husband does who had to eat lima beans and other
tacky vegetables to get his very small portion of meat for years and
years--to this day he will eat NOTHING with peas in it because his mother
laughed at him and said he did TOO like peas, and he was TOO going to eat
them. I can picture it clearly, because she once told me "yes you are" when
I told her I wasn't going to eat tongue for lunch at her house. "Yes you
are." Guess whether I did.
So those who think the children of those families in which there is freedom
to eat food are all eating ice cream and donuts are wrong and hugely wrong.
I wouldn't have believed it before I saw it, but I'm totally glad I've seen
it.
Last night Kirby took two of his older (college age) friends out to eat,
because they've treated him several times. So he took $30 of his own money,
and they went to IHOP. It's not a health food restaurant, but neither is it
burgers or pizza or an ice cream shop. I doubt that he ordered anything
junky; I doubt that he ordered dessert. He probably had milk, or maybe soda.
If it had been breakfast he would have ordered juice, even in the total
absence of parental witness.
Sandra