Making Your Kid Eat His Dinner
Dear Starwitch,
Is there is a way I can make my child clear their plate
at dinner? My mother always made me eat everything I was served and I
feel that my own child should eat all of her food too. She refuses to
eat all of the food that I serve to her and we get into fights over this
every night during dinner! How can I bring peace back to the dinner
table? Help!
Yours truly,
Donna
Dear Donna,
As much as you love your mother and may think that
everything she did was right, let's put things in perspective. Your
mother may have been brought up in a time when food was scarce for her
family. I know my own mother was dirt poor when she was a child. Her
family ate beans and cornbread every day for a very long time. Back
then, it made sense to finish all your food because you may not get to
eat again for half a day or more. But these days, it's a very bad idea
to force your child to eat all the food on their plate. Maybe you
haven't noticed, but childhood obesity is an epidemic now. Kids are
eating WAY too much.
If the Goddess has seen fit to bless you with a child
who doesn't struggle with weight, don't go out of
your way to make them fat by forcing them to eat food that their body
doesn't need. Their body will tell them when they're full. Some people
eat very small portions of food several times throughout the day. By forcing yourself to eat when you're
already full, you stretch your stomach out. Next time you eat, your
stomach will need more food because it's bigger now. That's how people
get fat.
I just saw them saying the same thing on the show "The
Doctors". They said don't make your child finish everything on their
plate. Just let them eat until they're full. Let the child determine
when he or she is full.
If you make food into a huge issue in their life (when
to eat, what to eat, how much to eat) then they will almost certainly
become overweight. The Law of Attraction states that whatever you think
about the most is what you attract into your life. So if you spend all
your energy thinking about food and getting fat, you are very likely to
create a life that is centered around eating and getting fat. Please
don't inflict that misery onto your child. I bet you struggle with your
weight, don't you? That may be why you're so over-involved with your
child's eating habits. Don't make the mistake your mother made and raise
a child who's overly-focused on food and eating.
I would also suggest that you not make sweets into a
huge deal. If you hide sweets, or use them as a reward, you're teaching
the child that sweets have great importance. By making sweets some big
deal, the child will only desire them more. We all want what we can't
have. At the same time, don't make sweets over-available by keeping ten
different treats around the house at all times. You could have a box of
cookies or a bag of candy and maybe some ice cream, but there is no need
to have a bag of Snickers, a box of Chips-Ahoy, Fudgesicles, three
boxes of Breyer's, leftover Halloween
candy, and lots of sugary cereals in the house (okay that just happens
to be the sweets that I have in my own home, lol, and I live
alone!)
The moral here is, don't feel like you're SO BAD if you can't follow the
experts' advice (as if I'm an expert, lol). The experts may not be
following their own advice, ha ha.
If nothing else, I'm sure you can manage to leave the child alone at the
dinner table. You just want to make it seem as though food isn't such a
huge deal. Though it would really be good if you can teach them to eat
healthily so the child doesn't grow up unhealthy like the rest of us. We aren't doing our kids any favors
by taking them to McDonald's every week, even though the playground is
fun (pack a picnic and take it with you, or better yet go to a "real"
park and actually watch your kids play so they don't get kidnapped.)
Fast food is horrible for humans. Just feed them something at home
instead. It's far cheaper and better for them, not to mention usually
better-tasting and your stomach doesn't feel like it's going to turn
inside-out like it does when you eat at McDonald's.
If your child says that fast food makes their stomach
sick, you should believe them. It does the same to me and my
ex-step-daughter because it's so horrible for our bodies. The only
reason your own body doesn't reject it is because you've forced it into
your system so many times that it has learned to submit to your abuse.
Bright Blessings,
Starwitch
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