It is frustrating sometimes!
We have a funny house...my mom was VERY anti sugar and snacks and stuff...
My sister and I are both overweight (me from childhood...her on and off after high school)..
But we BOTH are TRYING to include some more “treats” for our kids in the hopes that they will not CRAVE them like the sugar addicted adults we have become!!! :-)LOL!!!
I have started to include a treat in EVERY lunch that I send to school...and we have been having some deserts!
Doesn’t that sound STUPID!
And..it’s NOT like we are the “health kick” people.
We have just as many bad carbs and fats as regular families...but I am a FREAK about giving them treats!
So..I am TRYING!!!
Wish me luck!
And..I know what you mean SO MUCH about the worrying!!!
We just, for the FIRST TIME, last Saturday let our oldest go across the street to the school to play BY HIMSELF!
I made him take a walkie talkie...and he was only gone for 1/2 hour.
But I am BOUND AND DETERMINED to get him outside a TON this summer and I CANNOT always go with him.
People in the area have mixed feeling about my “mission” to LET MY CHILD PLAY...but I am going to go for it.
Wish me luck with that too!
Hug your stocky one from me!
And a VERY HAPPY Mother’s day to YOU!
Good luck! My older (smaller build, underweight until he was 12) son was a maniac for sweets even though we were very liberal with them. He was also a very picky eater.
My younger son will eat anything (his current favorite is salmon!) and we throw away a ton of his uneaten holiday candy.
Sorry! I think this is a battle parents are destined to lose.
Homeschoolers don’t need to wait until summer.
My own kids actively played outside roller blading, bike riding, digging holes and snow forts, swinging, throwing balls, etc, **all** year long.
Other homeschool moms that I have known report the same. Is this the reason I have never met a fat homeschooler who has been homeschooled from the beginning?