Comments on: We Are What We Feed Our Children?

By: Nurit - 1 family. friendly. food.

Nurit - 1 family. friendly. food. — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:53:42 +0000

It’s on.
Thanks!

By: Nurit - 1 family. friendly. food.

Nurit - 1 family. friendly. food. — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:12:00 +0000

Cindy, I’d like to link to this post in my upcoming “Bite size” post about mothers and daughters. I hope that’s OK.

By: Sarah @ Semi-Sweet

Sarah @ Semi-Sweet — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:40:21 +0000

Variety and moderation are key for me, as is studiously avoiding “fat talk” and really most “body talk” in general. When my daughter and do talk about these things, we talk about food and bodies from the standpoint of health, not “shoulds” and “don’ts.” There are foods that are great for our bodies and foods that aren’t so great (but damn, a lot of those taste good). So we maximize the “grow foods” and eat the treats more occasionally – but I agree, forbidding categories of foods often creates a disproportionate desire for those foods! So Cheetos sometimes, broccoli always . . . .

By: Cindy

Cindy — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:32:25 +0000

Yes. Variety is a must. Some nights mama just needs to make mac & cheese. Some nights scallops. It’s all good. I also keep hot dogs and stuff to a minimum, but don’t forbid them. I loved them as a child and don’t think my kids should be denied the spoils of an American childhood. Plus you can get the free-range, bottle-feed, all-beef kind now – probably all-beef-eyeballs, but whatever.

By: Nurit - 1 family. friendly. food.

Nurit - 1 family. friendly. food. — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:12:12 +0000

Oh, there’s so much to be said about a mother-daughter relationships… This is just another tiny aspect of this complex bond.
Feeding is way more than just “feeding” and so much beyond the physical act of serving, cooking, giving, preventing, etc of food.
And, I agree, I think that eating disorders/abnormalities are a sign that there is a problem in the parent-child connection.

By: Coogan

Coogan — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:45:13 +0000

I just read the article while feeding my baby her first carnivorous meal (ground turkey, bought from my local German butcher). My mother thought I was crazy for making my own baby food and not just buying the Gerber stuff. Maybe she’s right. After all, I credit my mom’s laissez-faire attitude toward dining for my own lack of food neuroses: some nights we ate Kraft Mac n’ Cheese with hot dogs, other nights we had fresh pan-seared scallops in an organic orange glaze. When I got to college and was confronted with the all-you-can-eat cereal buffet, I just ate Cheerios, while other people who had grown up in strident anti-sugar households gorged themselves on Capn’ Crunch till they landed in the campus food issues clinic. So for now my strategy is to embrace variety.