Do you treat your kids different?

Comment by Keem on February 6, 2013 at 8:03am

I think you guys handled it well together--as a team--and looking at it as being healthy, not skinny. :)

 

As for our house, it's strange---I'm vegetarian with garlic/onion sensitivities.  My daughter is just picky.  My husband likes most everything.  98% of the time, I eat a different meal from them-something vegetarian (which is usually something calorie friendly) and do a total of 2 or 3 meals for dinner.  I feel like a short order cook sometimes. 

I've already tried to do the healthy eating thing around here--where I did all of the baking myself instead of buying cookies or other stuff--to healthify junk if we had to have it.  Well--then, my husband started to "import" junk--Hostess, Little Debbies, candy, etc--and also had boxes at work....and I realized that nobody is forcing us to eat junk--we choose to eat healthy or not to. I think not having it around the house is a good idea if everyone will cave.  I also think it's a good idea to have stuff in the house that's healthy and already made--like home baked goodies--so everyone might pick that over the Hohos etc.  I learned just because I wanted to eat healthy and I wanted THEM to eat healthy, too,  didn't mean that they did. 

Comment by LindaB on February 6, 2013 at 8:11am

We are a team as well at our house.  My oldest son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 9.  For the past 13 years our family eats the same all the way around.  Its not a bad thing to teach our kids healthy eating habits regardless of where they are in the scheme of things at this very point in time.  If we teach them while they are young, it will carry with them throughout their adult lives.

Way to go with the "Veggie of the Month" --- I love it.  There are sooo many neat fruits and veggies out there that are really good for us.

Comment by Christy on February 6, 2013 at 11:30am

I like your idea of being a team. Skinny does not equal healthy and I think it is important to teach kids that they need to eat  certain way so that they can be HEALTHY regardless of their weight/build. Eating healthy should not be seen as a punishment, so I don't think there would be any long term negative effects. If anything, I could see there being long term resentment if they were treated differently because of their size.

Comment by Becky Trejo on February 6, 2013 at 1:10pm

I think what ur doing is great. I feel bad but my younger girl 5 yrs is not overweight but solid and has the body that i feel if i dont watch her she could gain fast. As a infant/ toddler she was so tiny dr even did test to make sure nothing is wrong. now she is about 80 percent tile. She is a huge carb eater and would eat all day if i let her. My teen daughter eats so slow it drves me nuts but is probably a good thing. 5 yr eats fast so she can get the last of everything and eats like me til she has a belly ache so i do make her eat moreveggies and she doesnt get seconds unless fruit or veggie. I dont know if its bad or not but i want to stay on top of it before it goes too far. Does that make since.

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