Honey, We're Killing The Kids

[Dodgergirl]

Has anyone else watched this show? It's on TLC and is interesting. I honestly can't believe how complacent the parents are.

[Kim]

I watched that last night. Mom in the first show really needed to take a harder look at herself long before a nutritionist got involved. I thought, too, that the extreme changes in the kids' diet were guaranteed to fail. Baby steps!!!

[Dodgergirl]

Yup, after years of cookies & fast food, their first 'family' dinner is Tofu? http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/rofl5.gif

[BGW]

Or how about the kid that packed up his video games and was going to run away because the new rule of only 2 hours a day was way way too harsh!!?? Everyone stopped him (after he had run into the nearby woods).

I thought the reason behind cutting the amount of TV down to the 2 hours a day was to get the kids up, out of the house and active!! http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/rofl5.gif

[Ironhorse]

I eat wrong, no doubt about it, and it shows. But when I first started babysitting my grandkids, they drank no milk, ate no vegetables and pretty much ate nothing but PBJ, donuts, pizza, fries and chicken nuggets. Oh yeah, and grilled cheese. Now 2 years later, they eat most veggies, including broccoli, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes (you can't believe the struggle it was to get them to eat cooked potatoes that weren't french fries!). They're just as happy with salads as anything else during summer. I make the food fun for them too, such as "ants on a log". They're mom will only eat potatoes or corn for a veggie, period. I used to get so p.o.'d when I'd make a meal (I cook dinner on the nights I stay down there) and I'd watch her take one piece of meat and make faces at the other stuff I cooked. Worse yet, she would go "yuck" when my son and I gave the kids veggies on their plates. So it was a struggle getting them to try stuff. And sometimes it was just a matter of finding a different way to fix something to get them to eat it (instead of crushed tomatoes in a stew, I used beef broth based, now my grand daughter loves stew, that took me a year to figure out). We now have a rule, they have to eat at least a spoonful of something at every meal, no exceptions. They have learned to eat a lot of things, and like them. I eat better when I'm at their house, less junk food, because I want them to eat right. Cake, cookies are treats, and not for everyday. Muffins for breakfast are a treat, fruit is eaten with every breakfast. And when we go shopping, the kids get what they ask for, as long as it's good food and not junk food. If they ask for apples, they get bought. If they ask for cookies, the answer is "not today". And they're learning how to pick out fresh veggies and fruits that is ripe and not over ripe or rotten. The funny thing is now they'll tell me "Grandma you forgot milk, or bananas, or apples or salad" or whatever. They have gotten used to my not cooking with salt (I hardly ever add it), aren't drowning their food with ketchup. Even my daughter-in-law is eating a bigger variety of foods and trying some new stuff and finding out it won't kill her, LOL. Now, if I could just eat better at home, LOL! But I do during the summer, because I love fresh fruit (grapes and melons) and salads.