Pam Hartley

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>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 2865
>Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2003, 7:14 AM
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> << My kids like candy like the next kid, but they don't crave it, don't
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> nag for it and eat it as a treat. >>
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> My kids like candy less than "the next kid," it seems.
> Other kids come here, see it, and get excited because it's limited at their
> house, but our kids mostly leave it sitting around because they don't think
> it's as good as other things.


Mine eat more "junk" (candy, chips, etc.) than I'm sure
healthy-eating-advocate parents would find comfortable. But they don't
regard it as a treat or leap on it when I bring it home, it's just part of
the landscape.

My daughters know they can have ice cream for breakfast if they want it.
Mikey (5) invariably chooses a bagel or toast. Brit (8), her mother's
daughter, doesn't eat until she's been up and around for several hours.

Brit considers green salads a treat and when we're out of lettuce that's the
first thing she wants me to put on the shopping list. And she's currently
going through a binge of sandwiches four times per day.

Both have free access to soda, neither tend to choose it. Mikey likes water,
both like milk.

I have asked them, and they are agreeable, to eat a multi-vitamin every day.
They're healthy, happy, fewer tooth problems than I had at their age.
There's still a lot of Christmas candy left in the bowl.

Pam