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I've always thought they should make little babystands for this problem. You wheel it into the clothes store, stick the little dude on it, and gauge the sizes directly.
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I've always thought they should make little babystands for this problem. You wheel it into the clothes store, stick the little dude on it, and gauge the sizes directly.
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As a parent with another child driving for the first time this winter I felt like this should be shared widely.
Izo
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I donno, dirk. I feel like we, society, people and coorps could do a lot with more education/tuition and technology to better traffic safety, patience being part of it. Phones is where I'd suggest a freedom limitation, specifically blanking while en route, however that could be done without limiting passengers. Young ppl just txt and drive way too much. Maybe a nagging alarm when in the wrong lane for too long. Cars have so many sensors now, drive autonomously too. Sucks whomever is brought in as trauma ptt, old, young, experience or not so, implicated or causal. We all bleed red.
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As a parent with another child driving for the first time this winter I felt like this should be shared widely.
That driver could be a reasonable human being who doesn't speed through snow...
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Izo
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Sorry. Let's get back to how much we reproduce and care for our offspring.
Today I had a lengthy discusion with my 7 yo on why she should eat her vegetables. This ended in a rudimentary 'take 2 samples of what you like on the plate, then 1 sample vegetables. Repeat til full. Stop when full'. As opposed to 'eat all the good stuff, then say you're full when only the vegetables are left'.
What do you guys do to get kids to eat a varied, balanced plate? Vegan for a month?
I choose their servings at meals. Provide veggies first, when they're hungry. No dessert/playtime until veggies are consumed. If they're really being bastards about it, veggies appear again, cold, at breakfast. By the time they're elementary age they'll actually like the greens.
As for most things with kids, you pick your battles carefully but you fucking win, every time, or you're hosed. One battle of wills now, settled decisively, saves you 10 down the line.
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Sorry. Let's get back to how much we reproduce and care for our offspring.
Today I had a lengthy discusion with my 7 yo on why she should eat her vegetables. This ended in a rudimentary 'take 2 samples of what you like on the plate, then 1 sample vegetables. Repeat til full. Stop when full'. As opposed to 'eat all the good stuff, then say you're full when only the vegetables are left'.
What do you guys do to get kids to eat a varied, balanced plate? Vegan for a month?
lol it's no big deal. It's just that Lamarck is like second half of 18th century and Darwin is 19th century.
I'm only up to 2.5 years old so far. My son's food choices seem to consider size. Big apple, big carrot, and tiny meatball taste much better to him than pieces or normal sizes.
When he's older, I was thinking about sort of telling him that he must eat 1 thing i pick for him, and then he can have 2 things that he wants for himself.
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Gurgeh
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What do you guys do to get kids to eat a varied, balanced plate? Vegan for a month?
The very first food my daughter was allowed to eat on her own was boiled vegetables and fruits, she very much liked be able to eat on her own and not be fed. So now she loves boiled vegetables and fruits. It's even a problem, because sometimes she'll eat 1 pound of broccoli, be full and not eat anything else...
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That's amazing, wish I'd done that. Broccoli is the best antioxidant iirc. But sure, they need fat, protein and sugar in different proportions to adults, building blocks to grow efficiently.
Same problem with my son. He'll eat a serving of broccoli the size of his head and then be on the toilet the entire next day.
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The first solid food all of my kids ate was vegetable and fruit puree. Squash, pumpkin, peas, apples, pears, and the like. We grew it all ourselves so it was cheap as crap. Also, we simply had a policy that you were expected to eat what was on your plate. We tried hard to make sure there were plenty of things the kids loved on the plate in addition to the vegetables. Most of my kids like the veggies, but not all. But when you have meat (which all my kids adore, they're bloody carnivores for sure) and a starch they love (pasta or mashed potatoes or such), they can choke down the veggies they don't like among the food they do like.
But the expectation is clear. If it's on your plate, you're going to eat it without complaining. There certainly have been occasions when they haven't eaten the veggies, but there are consequences. The next thing they were going to eat was the veggies they didn't eat when they were supposed to. Clear expectations bring clear results. My sister essentially cooked a different meal for each of her kids because they wouldn't like what they were eating. That was crazy.
But the expectation is clear. If it's on your plate, you're going to eat it without complaining. There certainly have been occasions when they haven't eaten the veggies, but there are consequences. The next thing they were going to eat was the veggies they didn't eat when they were supposed to. Clear expectations bring clear results. My sister essentially cooked a different meal for each of her kids because they wouldn't like what they were eating. That was crazy.
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Gurgeh
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Gotta love the broccoli and blueberry meal... The diaper the next day is... Oh I don't even want to think about it.
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Gurgeh
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I don't mind if she's not clearing her place personnaly, but what she doesn't eat isn't going to be substitued by something else.
If she wants something extra, like a biscuit or some chocolate, she's got to finish her plate.
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We didn't ever give ours blended food, we didn't want to get him into the habit of that being how food works, so we did the baby led weaning thing; when he was young we just gave him a bit of well cooked carrot or broccoli to chew on until he was ready to start with proper meals. He's not even 3 yet so isn't starving every day and I know he gets a proper meal at nursery Monday-Thursday, so if he clears his plate great, if he doesn't then fair enough but it doesn't get swapped for other crap. In general he's pretty good though, there isn't much he wont eat, and very rarely will he not eat something if hes hungry, just because he doesn't want that thing. He does love a roast dinner though, he shovels in almost a full chicken breast, broccoli, roast potato or 2 and 2-3 full carrots and a Yorkshire pudding, then always room for a dessert (of course).
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My kids ate really well, very diverse, when they were young. They got increasingly picky as they got older. My oldest now will at least give everything a solid try, especially if she gets to help cook it. There are some random things she just insists she doesn't like though, like pasta or potatoes.
The other two though, not so much. They both have sensory issues. Which, when I first heard that, could barely contain the spontaneous jerk off motion. But it's a real thing and over time I see it. It's easier to see it manifest in stuff likes sounds and stimulation etc, taste not so much. But I give them a wider leeway. They still try stuff but not so much. What I won't do is cook separate meals for them. I make something, I take all these caveats into account, if you don't eat it, not my problem.
I shied away from doing the "clear your plate" thing because my family has a problem with obesity and I don't want to instill that in them. I want them to eat until full and then realize the food will always be there later. I talked a bit about one kid having adhd, this is a particular problem for her as the meds make her not hungry but when they wear off she's ravenous.
The other two though, not so much. They both have sensory issues. Which, when I first heard that, could barely contain the spontaneous jerk off motion. But it's a real thing and over time I see it. It's easier to see it manifest in stuff likes sounds and stimulation etc, taste not so much. But I give them a wider leeway. They still try stuff but not so much. What I won't do is cook separate meals for them. I make something, I take all these caveats into account, if you don't eat it, not my problem.
I shied away from doing the "clear your plate" thing because my family has a problem with obesity and I don't want to instill that in them. I want them to eat until full and then realize the food will always be there later. I talked a bit about one kid having adhd, this is a particular problem for her as the meds make her not hungry but when they wear off she's ravenous.
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