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    Parents let their kids eat trash?

    Posts: 48
    edited January 30 in Food and Nutrition
    Between Instagram and people-watching at restaurants, I notice that parents will make healthy decisions for themselves, but order deep-friend/fatty foods for their own kids. Why is that?

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    • Posts: 317 Member
      From this question, I surmise that you do not have children, right?
    • Posts: 1,418 Member
      I don't have kids, but I can't imagine kids are all that complaint with healthy eating. I'd definitely mind your own business on this one.
    • Posts: 62 Member
      From this question, I surmise that you do not have children, right?


      this
    • Posts: 1,752 Member
      Fat is good for a growing child's brain.
    • Posts: 39
      I can only assume it's because kids like to eat with their fingers.. I don't have kids. I just notice it a lot too.... and I think that's one of the problems with obesity. Kids learn their eating habits at a young age..
    • Posts: 674 Member
      Sliding in on this one....Gonna be fun to watch.:drinker:

      Edit: for spelling
    • Posts: 14,025 Member
      I can only assume it's because kids like to eat with their fingers.. I don't have kids. I just notice it a lot too.... and I think that's one of the problems with obesity. Kids learn their eating habits at a young age..

      It is much better that they dont eat at all, right?!
    • Posts: 665 Member
      Sleep deprivation & Pester Power.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pester_power

      But don't take my word for it - babysit someone's kids for about a week (or 3 days) and it will be glaringly obvious.
    • Posts: 712 Member
      I guess it's because I'm a horrible parent?
    • Posts: 847 Member
      This will not end well. :huh:
    • Posts: 6,800 Member
      oh brother
      Oh bother, I read that wrong.
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    • Posts: 347 Member
      I don't always order "fatty" foods for my daughter but one of the fun things about being a kid is eating stuff like french fries and chicken nuggets without worrying about it. She also eats ice cream!! *gasp!*
    • Posts: 875 Member
      Please don't allow your children to eat from the trash can.
    • Posts: 202 Member
      This will not end well. :huh:

      Agreed....in for impending drama!
    • Posts: 2,712 Member
      Uh, we used to get food out of the trash all the time. You only go for the sealed stuff, and it's fine...
    • Posts: 1,624 Member
      I can only say that when I was a child, if my parents had handed me a Happy Meal toy and a salad, I would have eaten the toy.
    • Posts: 12,589 Member
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    • Posts: 347 Member
      Please don't allow your children to eat from the trash can.

      This made me lmao.
    • Posts: 674 Member
      I don't always order "fatty" foods for my daughter but one of the fun things about being a kid is eating stuff like french fries and chicken nuggets without worrying about it. She also eats ice cream!! *gasp!*

      I agree, just because some kids are eating ice cream and "not so healthy choices" doesn't mean that they are doing this on a daily basis. Some just assume this is how children eat all the time.
    • Posts: 6,833 Member
      I don't know what you're talking about. My kids are on raspberry ketones and the green coffee bean enema cleanse, just like all the sensible adults.
    • Posts: 16,356 Member
      Someone wants to monitor the world and make Judgy McJudgerton judgements on others despite a complete lack of background or understanding.

      Seems legit.
    • Posts: 27,732 Member
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    • Posts: 106
      Society almost TELLS kids to hate vegetables. Tons of television shows show children turning their nose away from broccoli and brussel sprouts and such, so it's no wonder thousands of kids say they hate these kinds of foods...even if they've yet to give them a try! Parents need to feed their kids. If a kid is stubborn enough and refuse to eat, there's really nothing left to do but *sigh* give them what the want.

      Also, companies know how to market to kids. This means kids want to eat fruit loops and chicken nuggets because the box as spongebob on it.
    • Posts: 542 Member
      My kid will eat nuggets and fries, but will have an apple, carrot sticks and yes even broccoli as a snack.

      Just like adults, it's fine to let kids indulge, especially when out at dinner.
    • Posts: 256 Member
      I have two kids, one six year old boy and one two year old boy. When we go out to eat the six year old is allowed to order what he wants. It's normally Mac' cheese or corndogs or some other disgusting food. That he doesn't get at home. He enjoys it and it allows us to eat a meal out without fighting with him over the menu. We order a fruit plate for the two year old and cut off bits of ours or order him chicken fingers depending on where we are. Snacks at our house include string cheese, fruit, veggies with PB, and roasted flavored almonds. Dinner is what we eat or they don't eat. Now if you only saw our kids eat in public you would think that they only eat crap, but since we only eat out once or twice a month..... But a stranger can judge me all they want, I only listen to my family and my kids pediatrician. Oh and they're both little string beans as far as weight goes.
    • Posts: 28 Member
      Well for me, it's because I cook very healthy meals at home (that my son happily eats). Restaurants are about his only chance for fried/unhealthy food. I give him a menu and let him order what he wants. Since his calorie needs are a lot higher than mine and we don't eat out every day, I don't worry about it.
    • Posts: 12,589 Member
      No Foods are Inherently Fattening!

      This study showing that “reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they emphasize.” - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19246357

      This study which found “diets differing substantially in glycemic load induce comparable long-term weight loss.”- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17413101

      Professor Mark Haub who lost 27lbs and improved markers of health while eating a diet consisting of Twinkies.
      http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

      Flexible dieting
      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11707550
    • Posts: 4,140 Member
      Because they haven't classified letting your child get obese child abuse.
    • Posts: 39
      My sister in law feeds both her boys greasy finger foods all time time. And neither of them will eat veggies.
    • Posts: 8,138 Member
      This reminds me of my own childhood. Day after day, I was fed peanut butter sandwiches and sugary cereals, when all I really wanted was some beets and brussels sprouts. I called Child Services for the first time at age 4, when my parents tried to make me eat fried chicken instead of the grilled tilapia I had been begging them for.

      *ptsd kicking back in*
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