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| Mommacat | Feb 18 2013, 08:34 AM Post #1 |
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I work with some women that are having kids and/or have very young children and I hear all sorts of stuff about what a person should, or should not, feed small children. I just have to shake my head and laugh. No wonder we've become a nation of sickly, neurotic, obssessed food phobics! Wow! They often ask me what I think about the latest "research findings" about certain foods and medications. They are usually sorry they did. My standard response is: "Its mostly a bunch of crap." I have raised 3 children that have no food or medicinal allergys, have no immune system problems and are healthy, strong adults. Go figure....cuz OMG - I fed them honey to sweeten their nasty tasting infant rice cereal -nobody ever told me that was DEADLY to a baby. I gave them peanut butter on toast as soon as they were able to chew - nobody ever told me I was inviting a peanut allergy. I filled their sippy cups with milk fresh from the cows, who knew I was laying the groundwork for later lactose intolerance! Yikes - poor little dears - its a wonder they lived to the age of 5! I also take great umbrage at the fact that small children are now forced to suffer with stuffy noses and coughs. You see, apparently the parents of small children are not to be trusted to judiciously administer cold preparations and so now they are simply not available. The mindset that its better they suffer than, perhaps, be over medicated by irresponsible adults is beyond me. The latest fad with the women in the office is that they ALL give their kids probiotics....hmmmm...these are the same people that freak out at the idea of additives in anything....oh, but I guess, since its "all natural" that makes it not only okay, it makes it wonderful! I would point out that there is no more natural substance than nightshade, but I doubt the irony of that would register. They bemoan on a daily basis the "picky eaters" they have been blessed with and worry incessently that they are not getting adequate nutrition. They go on and on about how they have to make this special food or that seperate side dish so the little darling won't go hungry and shrivel up and waste away. Good Gawd!! I am quite certain that a week under my care would quickly cure the "picky" and they would not go hungry...well, maybe they would once or twice when they went to bed without dinner after a tantrum about my choice of what's for dinner. When, in heaven's name, did toddlers take over the province of planning the family meals or deciding what they would or wouldn't eat? Whatever happened to eating what your mother put in front of you and keeping your lip buttoned, even it you were NOT fond of it? At what point did parents believe it was good parenting to cave into the demands of a spoiled child? As you can see, I do get worked up about it. But, I cannot help thinking that the woes of parenting have been self-inflicted on the ladies I work with....if they themselves grew up and got a spine, there would be no arguments about what was eaten, when, and in what proportions....I quite honestly do not ever remember arguing with my parents or grandparents about my menu choices - I didn't have any and that was how it was supposed to be - my parents understood that life cannot be sustained on the choices of a small child. So, to wrap it up, I asked one of my co-workers who complains of her daughter's refusal to eat what she offers her, if she gave the child a daily multi-vitamin. The answer was, of course, "Of course I do". To which I replied, "Then don't worry about it. She isn't likely to get scurvy or develop rickets or be damaged in any way. But, serve what you think best and then, STAND YOUR GROUND!" I'm pretty sure she now thinks I am a female version of Atilla the Hun...how could I be so heartless.....??? |
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| Grizzly | Feb 23 2013, 09:43 PM Post #2 |
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Like I've said before, you should just start writing books on various subjects. If people don't like to be told about certain subjects, you might have some hot sellers. The more contravercial the better and might become a good side job. I don't know much about kid's food but I have noticed if current affairs come up at my job site, some of the opinions just blow me away. Some times I have to ask why they believe certain stories, cause the news told you so it must be completely true? If I question it then of coarse I'm the weird one but once in a while I get them wondering also. |
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| Mommacat | Feb 26 2013, 01:30 AM Post #3 |
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LOL I might do that, someday....probably wouldn't have time until there was some sort of catastrophe that meant I didn't have a job! But seriously, I am amazed, too, by what people believe cuz they heard it on the news or read it in the paper. They sure don't do any investigation and try to read any other points of view. When the SHTF, everybody is going to be in absolute shock cuz they thought things were going so well....CNN and MSN SAID all was well, didn't they? Yeah, right!! |
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| Raven | Mar 5 2013, 04:14 AM Post #4 |
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Selective reduction...the political manipulation of the human gene pool to reduce the ability to think for themselves, thereby increasing the role of the government to think for us. Good Lord. I can't believe that anyone is the past lived long enough to procreate at all! But then again, these are the very same parents that line up for "happy meals". |
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| Mommacat | Mar 12 2013, 10:44 AM Post #5 |
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It isn't the happy meal people I worry about, its the ones that insist that every item that passes their lips has been gov't inspected, approved, and sanitized, and proccessed into near oblivion. The same people that make it illegal to buy whole milk from a farmer and lemonade from a kid on the sidewalk. They are the ones that honestly believe if it says "General Mills" on the box that its gotta be GOOD FOR YOU!!! The ones that would not ever, ever, not even THINK about gathering berries in the woods and eating them! Yikes!! You could get poisoned by all that nature!!!! LOL |
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| HandFarming | Mar 15 2013, 03:29 AM Post #6 |
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So these kids that eat all that processed crap end up with some pretty weird "conditions" sooner or later. The last one I heard a doctor was attributing genetics to a bone disorder when this person ate junk all her life. The loose of commen sense seems rampant is society, but then, why not eat that crap when real food is so hard to find. Oh My Dear Lord- to think that only a few would be so humble as to grow their own food, process their own meats, dairy and eggs when all that processed food meant to turn you into a Happy Meal addict is out there....in which they have spent millions to taste test for the perfect food addict. Again, I refer to the starving obese food addicts, the chron ill and the zombies. |
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| Mommacat | Mar 18 2013, 06:54 AM Post #7 |
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I kind of chuckle about the fact that if the SHTF, we're ALL going to end up being 'healthfood nuts"!! We won't have any choice in the matter! So, it will be good for the human race in two respects; weeding out the gov't handout babies (they'll be the first segment of society to die off) and making the surviving people healthier. What's not to like about that?? LOL |
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