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01-19-2006, 12:18 AM | #16 | |
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*Maybe nonparents too, but I only ever get those twinges when I'm trying to get my kids to do or not do something I used to not do or do. |
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01-19-2006, 05:13 AM | #17 | |
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DOCTOR ~ Sometimes it's easier to tell parents to let the kid have what they want, to avoid whining parents.
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01-19-2006, 10:03 AM | #18 |
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Regular meals are an impossibility in our house so it's become buy what you want them to have and "Root hog, or die."
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Ahhh, the "Clean Your Plate" club. Hard habit to break, thanks Grandma.
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01-19-2006, 11:26 PM | #20 |
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There are still children starving in China, aren't there?
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01-20-2006, 01:09 AM | #21 |
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I never got the starving children in where-ever routine. I got the "there is no other option" routine. I wasn't forced to clean my plate, but if I didn't eat my dinner and I got hungry, I could have hot milk with bread dipped in it. Period. My mother was Swiss and didn't believe in American food. I would be amazed when I went over to my little pals' homes and they had stuff like cookies or even peanut butter. My Mom refused to buy sweets (my Dad would sometimes sneak them home), soft drinks, peanut butter, or cold cereal. I had to eat either oatmeal or soft boiled eggs for breakfast and I DID have to eat breakfast, I got a thermos of soup and some fruit for lunch, and dinner was usually hamburger or pork chops, rice or potatoes and a veggie. No dessert. Like it or go hungry.
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01-20-2006, 12:32 PM | #23 | |
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01-20-2006, 02:29 PM | #24 |
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This thread is bringing up soooo many food issues for me. At my house you had to eat with your arm around your plate, guarding it, if you will, because my father would say, in a booming voice, "NOT GONNA EAT THAT?!!" and before you could even begin to formulate your response, he'd have your dinner forked and in his mouth.
My father sired three girls. He was a big man.
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01-20-2006, 09:48 PM | #28 | |
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Esp. their grilled cheese. When I was a lad my dad took me to all the places in NYC that he sensed were "going out" so I could experience them before they were gone. I really appreciate that. Horn and Hardart's Automat, Zum Zum, Chock full of nuts coffee shops, Schraft's, and when we moved from Chicago to NYC he insisted we ride the train, pullman cars, dining cars, it was great. I have only fleeting memories of it, but when I see old movies with x country train scenes, it comes back to me.
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01-21-2006, 10:50 PM | #30 | |
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Bread and warm milk was common in the UK too.
OK, back to the OP, sounds like this kid had serious mental health problems. If they managed to bring up 6 other kids to eat reasonable diets, then it can't all be down to the parents. It sounded to me like he would have happily starved if they hadn't given him what he wanted to eat. For most families, the "food battle" is resolved by them getting so hungry they'll try it and find it doesn't kill them. Doesn't sound like this was the case here. Admittedly, they don't sound like the most nutritionally clued-up family either, but I don't think this can have been the sole cause of the boy's dietary problems. Someone asked why the pediatrician didn't say anything. Children in the UK visit the regular family doctor, not a pediatrician. There are no regular examinations after the age of 2 -you just go when you're sick. Quote:
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