My tolerance levels for peoples choices are generally excessively high (in the end its none of my business what people eat or how they live unless they then whinge about being fat, sick, having zits, headaches or whatever other malaise their lifestyle is causing them, then I have NO tolerance!). When it comes to kids though, I have a ZERO crap food tolerance policy when they are little (babies to toddlers at LEAST). This is the only time in their lives they will be completely within your control. They go where you take them, they wear what you put them in, they eat what you feed them and drink what you give them to drink. Make the most of this precious time of innocence (and captivity!) and give them the VERY BEST start in life you possibly can. No sugar, no junk food, no lollies, chips and definitely no soft drink EVER. Preserve their purity, preserve their taste buds, preserve their beauty and preserve their health. No matter what well meaning friends and relatives say, they dont NEED any of this crap, and its not unfair to deny it to them. I still remember sitting in a food hall by myself one day and this young mum pulled out a tub of fruit to give to her 2 year old kid. I was sitting next to her and told her how beautiful it was to see a mum looking after her kid like that and her eyes filled with tears. I thought oh crap, not again, making someone cry! when she said that EVERYONE in her life tells her how bad she is, what a poor mum she is, how strict and mean she is because she doesnt give her kid chips or whatever other rubbish is going around. I was the first person, a complete stranger, who had ever validated her choices. I told her (in my own inimitable way) that she should tell all her friends to shove their opinions where the sun dont shine and keep doing the right thing by her kid. She was ten foot tall and bulletproof by the time I left her. Good girl, I still think of her and wonder how shes going. Its kind of some bizarre inverted snobbery that the poor mums who are trying to do the right thing by their kids are the ones who cop the most flak. Whats with that?? Not on my watch!!!
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 10:23:54 +0000
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