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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!porthos!uts!jil
- From: jil@uts.uucp (Jamie Lubin)
- Subject: Re: Not Limiting Sweets (was Re: Halloween Stories)
- Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:08:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.180816.25527@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <1992Nov10.223428.2227969@locus.com> <119450008@hpsmtc1.cup.hp.com> <1992Nov13.181100.6096@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com>
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- In article <1992Nov13.181100.6096@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com> elise@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com (Elise Wade) writes:
- >In article <119450008@hpsmtc1.cup.hp.com> kperdue@hpsmtc1.cup.hp.com (Karla Perdue) writes:
- >>
- >>I was very interested in Judy's posting. I have one question:
- >>
- >> If you have had more traditional ideas about food (i.e. that some are
- >> "bad") with the parents exercising control and your child in now 5 or 6,
- >> has anyone had experience STARTING a "eat anything" model at that age?
- >> Have their eating habits already become so fixed and dependant on the
- >> parents' control that the parents must continue to exercise some control?
- >> Or will they adapt and after a while and correct to eating a balanced
- >> and varied diet?
- >>
- >>Thanks for any comments.
- >
- >One of my friends had classic battles with her 7 year old son over
- >eating. Things got off to a bad start between her "traditional"
- >ideas about nutrition and her son's bout with a serious illness.
- >
- >After some discussion, she changed her style. She refused to make
- >food the battle ground it had been. She fixed "good" meals &
- >got a lot of "healthy" snacks. Then she quit bugging her son
- >about what he ate.
- >
- >After about a week, the kid had stopped complaining about food.
- >He then started to eat from the "healthy" snacks when he was
- >hungry. After about 2 months, he was pretty much eating dinner
- >with the rest of the family with out too much deviation.
- >
- >I don't know if they went all the way toward "no bad foods"
- >There was such a lot of damage to undo that a cold turkey approach
- >might not have worked at all. Last I talked to my friend, her
- >son seems to be gaining weight like he should now & she's
- >a lot less uptight over food in general.
- >
- >Hope this helps,
- >Elise.
-
- I read this newsgroup mainly to show postings to my girlfriend (who has a
- 4 & 7 year old, but has no net access). I developed an interest in nutrition
- when my children were 4 & 6 and have been the custodial parent since they
- were 6 & 8. They're was a gradual change (for the better) in all of our diets
- & since I was providing the food, I made sure that there was enough of a
- variety of healthful foods in addition to not taking away all of the "foods"
- to which they'd become accustomed. They were aware that I allowed them to
- have some things which I wouldn't have myself (& they were aware that I
- considered these things not that healthy); they also got into the habit of
- taking food supplements (as they saw me doing it regularly) & eventually
- further modified their diets somewhat, possibly from the example that I set.
- They kept some Halloween candy & brought the majority into school the next
- day. To this day they have pretty good health habits. So I guess I can sum
- up my experience with have a lot of healthy food around, set a good example
- & don't be a martyr.
-
-