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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 115097" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>With the food - if it is hunger-driven, what we did might work for you. I would cook healthy snacks and make other food available for him to 'raid' from the fridge or cupboard. I had a certain place where food could be raised - the only rules were, put wrappers in the bin, and tell me (or put it on the shopping list) when you take the second-last one. Because if it's not on the list, I don't know to buy more, do I?</p><p></p><p>I would cook sausages, rissoles, chicken - and lay in stores of carrots, tomatoes, other fruit & vegetables that the kids likes to eat raw. They could help themselves whenever they were hungry, unless I specified I wanted it left because I was planning on cooking something with it.</p><p></p><p>But if a kid came home from school and got stuck into the fridge and ate a lot of chicken, carrots and tomatoes and as a result had no appetite for dinner - it's not a problem, because the kid had already eaten a healthy meal, while snacking.</p><p></p><p>I remember sneaking food when I was a kid - I loved raw carrots (hated them cooked, but my mother always insisted I eat cooked carrots with everyone else at dinner time) and I would also sneak packets of sultanas or dried fruit. Really, it was very healthy, but for some reason I wasn't permitted to eat those things. I still don't know why.</p><p></p><p>By giving the kids free access to healthy food when THEY were hungry, I had fewer dinner table fights and they seemed to find their own routine which worked for them. A really hungry kid can be very unreasonable.</p><p></p><p>For this to work, I had to eliminate unhealthy food from the house. Given a choice between a bag of carrots and a bag of choc biscuits, the kids would fill up on choc biscuits. But if they had a craving for chocolate, they could make themselves a chocolate milkshake or choc banana smoothie.</p><p></p><p>Removing the opportunity to steal as well as the need to steal is a help. I know that sounds simplistic, but if you can work out why he's doing this, and under what circumstances - it can help.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 115097, member: 1991"] With the food - if it is hunger-driven, what we did might work for you. I would cook healthy snacks and make other food available for him to 'raid' from the fridge or cupboard. I had a certain place where food could be raised - the only rules were, put wrappers in the bin, and tell me (or put it on the shopping list) when you take the second-last one. Because if it's not on the list, I don't know to buy more, do I? I would cook sausages, rissoles, chicken - and lay in stores of carrots, tomatoes, other fruit & vegetables that the kids likes to eat raw. They could help themselves whenever they were hungry, unless I specified I wanted it left because I was planning on cooking something with it. But if a kid came home from school and got stuck into the fridge and ate a lot of chicken, carrots and tomatoes and as a result had no appetite for dinner - it's not a problem, because the kid had already eaten a healthy meal, while snacking. I remember sneaking food when I was a kid - I loved raw carrots (hated them cooked, but my mother always insisted I eat cooked carrots with everyone else at dinner time) and I would also sneak packets of sultanas or dried fruit. Really, it was very healthy, but for some reason I wasn't permitted to eat those things. I still don't know why. By giving the kids free access to healthy food when THEY were hungry, I had fewer dinner table fights and they seemed to find their own routine which worked for them. A really hungry kid can be very unreasonable. For this to work, I had to eliminate unhealthy food from the house. Given a choice between a bag of carrots and a bag of choc biscuits, the kids would fill up on choc biscuits. But if they had a craving for chocolate, they could make themselves a chocolate milkshake or choc banana smoothie. Removing the opportunity to steal as well as the need to steal is a help. I know that sounds simplistic, but if you can work out why he's doing this, and under what circumstances - it can help. Marg [/QUOTE]
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