"You're starving the African kids!"
I’m glad I already DON’T say this, but when I have kids I’m never going to say this to them: There are starving kids in Africa and you won’t even finish the food off your plate.1) That’s guilt tripping and I don’t want my kids to listen to me just because I guilt tripped them. That’s mean and kids don’t understand that. You’re just a bully to them if you do that.
2) If you make a fist with your hand, that’s the size of your stomach. If they’ve already eaten more than that, why would I force them to eat more? That’s causing them to over eat which causes weight gain, nausea, tummy aches and just all around discomfort, like it’s doing to me right now (I just had lunch.. Wish I read this sooner).
3) How in any way possible is the food that is going either in my child’s stomach or the trash going to help the starving kids in Africa. If they were in the kitchen or the dining room or wherever we were, they wouldn’t be worried about the fact that the kid has to eat the last bit. They’d be asking for it!
4) You know I can get whenever a kid won’t eat after saying they’re hungry. But that’s when you leave them and the food alone. If they’re hungry, and they ask for more food tell them they already have some. They’ll eat it eventually. That’s a way of parenting. But if they don’t want to finish what they’re eating because they actually can’t, you’re being a bad parent by forcing them to finish it.
So parents…think before you make your kids eat what they don’t want. That’s their bodies way of telling you NO MORE FOOD.
posted by Cortty @ 10:40 AM
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