[email protected]

In a message dated 4/23/02 3:27:51 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< I agree with her.
Moms should respect their kids' feelings, and if a hot dog isn't really a
dog
but a kid wants one, there's no advantage to naming off the ingredients in
World's Cheapest Hot Dogs. The parent could go get a fully organic
all-beef, no-by-product, fine-ground sausage instead of whatever's on sale
at
the grocery store.

I think in some cases the stress and shame and pressure some people put on
others about their choices has GOT to be worse for them than the effect of
"bad" food eaten in peace. >>


Yes, exactly!
It took me a long time to "get it" with the food issues.
I at least have my kids liking the tofu and veggie weinies....I don't think
I'd handle it very well if they liked the other variety!!!
We even found decent corndogs...what a treat.
I have an unschooling friend that is very controlling over diet....maybe I
should forward your post....
I often mention emotional/mental health as the more decisive factor in over
all health.
Ren

rumpleteasermom

Well, I don't think anyone should make diet a huge control issue. But
I also don't think we should sugar coat how we talk about our food
(sorry for the pun).

Now, that the squeamish are off meat, go check out how they make Tofu
and Tempeh.

Bridget


--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., starsuncloud@c... wrote:

> Yes, exactly!
> It took me a long time to "get it" with the food issues.
> I at least have my kids liking the tofu and veggie weinies....I
don't think
> I'd handle it very well if they liked the other variety!!!
> We even found decent corndogs...what a treat.
> I have an unschooling friend that is very controlling over
diet....maybe I
> should forward your post....
> I often mention emotional/mental health as the more decisive factor
in over
> all health.
> Ren

Julie Stauffer

<<But if you have a child obsessive-compulsive, it doesn't really help to
only hear advice about how to unschool children that don't have it>>

My Danny (3) was born addicted to cocaine. He is a "wild child". He is
intense and problematic and wonderful and funny. Much more "pressure per
square inch" than any of my other 4 children or any of the 14 foster kids we
had. He also has Hepatitis C and tends to get tired a lot. So he has "the
crankies" on top of everything else. He has great difficulty regulating
himself. He often hurts himself or others because he is either angry or too
wound up.

Point being....we unschool Danny the exact same way we do the other
children....we PARENT Danny differently. Danny has special issues that when
left to his own devices (not taking a nap and getting tired) he interferes
with other family member's rights to their lives (he gets too wound up,
angry and hits the 2yo).

That doesn't mean that unschooling doesn't work. It means that everyone is
an individual, even within a diagnostic category.

Julie

Lynda

Does anyone remember those "veggie" burgers from the dark ages? It was like
biting into sawdust and was gritty! And then, of course, there were those
slimey Loma Linda veggie hot dogs in a can, eeeuuuuu! Or, worst of the lot,
vegemite!!!

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "rumpleteasermom" <rumpleteasermom@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:58 AM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] The "UCKY" Meat thread WAS Re: Digest Number
1984


> Well, I don't think anyone should make diet a huge control issue. But
> I also don't think we should sugar coat how we talk about our food
> (sorry for the pun).
>
> Now, that the squeamish are off meat, go check out how they make Tofu
> and Tempeh.
>
> Bridget
>
>
> --- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., starsuncloud@c... wrote:
>
> > Yes, exactly!
> > It took me a long time to "get it" with the food issues.
> > I at least have my kids liking the tofu and veggie weinies....I
> don't think
> > I'd handle it very well if they liked the other variety!!!
> > We even found decent corndogs...what a treat.
> > I have an unschooling friend that is very controlling over
> diet....maybe I
> > should forward your post....
> > I often mention emotional/mental health as the more decisive factor
> in over
> > all health.
> > Ren
>
>
>
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