Re: need help unschooling food
Pam Hartley
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Brit is built like me and is growing up like I did -- tall, thin. I didn't
gain any weight no matter what I ate until I was in my 20s. Now I'm a hefty
Amazon-woman <g> but I swear I was a stick until 24 or so.
Mikey is built like Wally's sisters -- they're short and she's tall, but I
don't think she'll be as tall as Brit, and she's just rounder all over.
She'll have actual curves as a teenager, I think.
Neither one is fat. Brit was a huge baby and toddler -- born at 11.5 pounds,
off the charts for height and weight forever. Now, at 8, she's tall and thin
-- a perfect child's size 10. She looks like a kid model in jeans. Mikey was
a big baby and toddler, but nothing to compare with Brit, but looks
definitely "fatter" compared to her sister.
They both run around inside and out like wild lunatic heathens at least
several times per day. <g> I don't ask them to exercise, and since we're in
a townhouse and share a wall with a very kind elderly neighbor, I even ask
them NOT to race around after 10 p.m. ;) They seem to have worked out their
own exercise needs. I'm sure it helps that we live in California where the
weather is good enough to be outside even on most winter days.
Pam
>From: [email protected]It has been fascinating to me to watch my two daughters grow up.
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 2867
>Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2003, 10:41 AM
>
> I was wondering, do all of you who let your children eat
> whatever they want have concerns for their childrens' weight? And I am
> not talking from a societal view, but a health view.
Brit is built like me and is growing up like I did -- tall, thin. I didn't
gain any weight no matter what I ate until I was in my 20s. Now I'm a hefty
Amazon-woman <g> but I swear I was a stick until 24 or so.
Mikey is built like Wally's sisters -- they're short and she's tall, but I
don't think she'll be as tall as Brit, and she's just rounder all over.
She'll have actual curves as a teenager, I think.
Neither one is fat. Brit was a huge baby and toddler -- born at 11.5 pounds,
off the charts for height and weight forever. Now, at 8, she's tall and thin
-- a perfect child's size 10. She looks like a kid model in jeans. Mikey was
a big baby and toddler, but nothing to compare with Brit, but looks
definitely "fatter" compared to her sister.
They both run around inside and out like wild lunatic heathens at least
several times per day. <g> I don't ask them to exercise, and since we're in
a townhouse and share a wall with a very kind elderly neighbor, I even ask
them NOT to race around after 10 p.m. ;) They seem to have worked out their
own exercise needs. I'm sure it helps that we live in California where the
weather is good enough to be outside even on most winter days.
Pam
[email protected]
In a message dated 1/14/03 5:51:29 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< > what if you guys are right? >>
This is the very thing that wouldn't let me quit thinking about total,
radical unschooling.
I kept getting flustered at all these things people were saying, it just
couldn't work! Or could it?
I mean it was working for THEM, maybe it really did work?
Oh how the brain cells just couldn't leave it alone until I fully grasped it,
and what an eye opener it was!!
Cook thing is, they WERE right.
Ren
"The world's much smaller than you think. Made up of two kinds of
people--simple and complicated.....The simple ones are contented. The
complicated ones aren't."
"Unschooling support at pensacolaunschoolers.com
[email protected] writes:
<< > what if you guys are right? >>
This is the very thing that wouldn't let me quit thinking about total,
radical unschooling.
I kept getting flustered at all these things people were saying, it just
couldn't work! Or could it?
I mean it was working for THEM, maybe it really did work?
Oh how the brain cells just couldn't leave it alone until I fully grasped it,
and what an eye opener it was!!
Cook thing is, they WERE right.
Ren
"The world's much smaller than you think. Made up of two kinds of
people--simple and complicated.....The simple ones are contented. The
complicated ones aren't."
"Unschooling support at pensacolaunschoolers.com
[email protected]
In a message dated 1/15/03 9:22:58 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< Oh I am definitely with you on this one. Living in Florida, I can't
understand why in heavens name they come out with major winter stuff here in
Sept. It's hot until at least Nov. And now when we have some cool weather,
our Target has out bathing suits. What is up with that???? >>
Oh, I SO agree.
We don't even ever need some of the clothes they sell here, who buys them?
We seem to be on the same retail cycle as the rest of the nation, and it
makes zero sense!!!
Ren
"The world's much smaller than you think. Made up of two kinds of
people--simple and complicated.....The simple ones are contented. The
complicated ones aren't."
"Unschooling support at pensacolaunschoolers.com
[email protected] writes:
<< Oh I am definitely with you on this one. Living in Florida, I can't
understand why in heavens name they come out with major winter stuff here in
Sept. It's hot until at least Nov. And now when we have some cool weather,
our Target has out bathing suits. What is up with that???? >>
Oh, I SO agree.
We don't even ever need some of the clothes they sell here, who buys them?
We seem to be on the same retail cycle as the rest of the nation, and it
makes zero sense!!!
Ren
"The world's much smaller than you think. Made up of two kinds of
people--simple and complicated.....The simple ones are contented. The
complicated ones aren't."
"Unschooling support at pensacolaunschoolers.com
Mary Bianco
>From: starsuncloud@...<<Oh, I SO agree.
We don't even ever need some of the clothes they sell here, who buys them?
We seem to be on the same retail cycle as the rest of the nation, and it
makes zero sense!!!>>
You know what really makes me nuts? At Halloween year before last, Alyssa
had just turned one. The only costumes were these huge snowsuit looking fur
things. How can I send out my kid in that when it's 85 out at night?
Everything for little ones here were those things. Cute as heck, but only if
you're up north.
Mary B
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