Food, food glorious food........ oh.... and mothering stuff.....
Tonight I made delicious and tasty rissoles for the kids. Miss 3 ate all of hers, although it does take some time for her to eat!! When she grows up and asks me what annoying habits she had when she was young, I will tell her that taking what feels like a million hours to eat any meal was tedious, and the closest thing to annoying that she ever did. It is seriously the only time I have lost patience with her. It is nothing for her to take an hour and a half to eat dinner. At least she eats what I cook for her, though!
Mr 2 eats quickly, but will only eat from a couple of options. I try him on new and exciting foods, and he turns up his nose. Hey, he not only turns up his nose, but every part of his body refuses the food. He basically has pureed meat and vegies every night....... still! It's all homemade and healthy and is actually quite yummy, but so are rissoles, so are roast dinners, so is pasta, etc, but he will not eat them. I am open to any hints. I have made dinners which he will not eat to the point of almost spewing as I pry his mouth open to get him to taste the food. I have let him sit for over an hour with food in front of him which he doesn't eat. I have arranged food into funny shapes, I have tried mashing foods but if it's not the vegies and meat then it's no go! Miss 3 and I will come and eat it in front of him and make oohing and aahing sounds of pleasure, but he is wise to our feminine wiles already, and remains firm in his refusal to open his mouth. Miss 3 had limited success feeding him herself (hey, I told you she was handy), but once he realised it wasn't his regular food, it was spat out and no go! The weird thing is that he will eat cake and chips and chocolate witho
ut any qualms or apparent hesitation. Even when his cake is quite a virulent blue or green. (Exhibit A: Mr 2's 2nd birthday cake - name changed to preserve his anonymity!!)
Regardless of his apparent love of unhealthy food, he hardly ever gets those things. I am quite obsessive about feeding the kids healthily. They have never tasted soft drink or cordial (other than Ribena!) They aren't allowed to eat flavoured chips, biscuits etc, or any lollies. In fact, I recommend mothers stay away from processed foods as much as possible.
Handy Hint Number 20: Check food labels for flavour enhancer 621 (MSG) and 635. They are dodgey for kids (and I think they're a reason for a lot of the Attention Deficit Disorders and learning difficulties in kids today). Also steer clear of red lollies, cordial, and anything with red food colouring.
I can't believe that foods advertised as being 'healthy options' often have those flavour enhancers in them. 621 and 635 are in pretty much every variety of chips, other than plain potato chips or plain original corn chips. They're also in all those little snack biscuits that have sprinkled 'flavour' you can see on it. Flavour enhancers can also be in sausages, and meats, and sliced ham etc from deli section of a supermarket. They're in some varieties of tinned tuna, they are in pretty much any flavour sachet for any type of quick preparation meal, and definitely in 2 minute noodles and stuff like that (Oh, how I miss my 2 Minute Noodles....) I wouldn't eat anything with flavour enhancers while I was preggos either. OK, I'll get off my anti-flavour enhancer band wagon now......
I just had to reprimand Mr 2 for being too rough with one of his toys, and he flew, crying his little heart out, into Miss 3's arms. She cradled him to her and reprimanded me for being mean to Mr 2, while comforting him and saying 'I've got you little darling. It's ok. I've got you.' She is quite simply adorable, and I am so proud of her being so protective of her brother, and yet I now should reprimand her for being cheeky to me. Ah.... for the love.....!! Sometimes being a mother is like a minefield!
Handy Hint Number 21: When you are reprimanding your children, make sure your threats of punishment are logical and enforceable. For example saying "If you don't stop doing that nothing good is ever going to happen to you, ever!' is not the best example of mothering (a lapse my sister Mrs A will never let me live down!!)
Another problem reprimanding children is when they call your bluff. One night when Miss 3 kept getting out of her cosy warm bed (which I, by the way, would happily have fallen asleep in!!) I said that if she didn't stay in her bed I would put her outside in the car in the cold and she could sleep there (something I would obviously not do, so don't call DOCS!!) and she starts crying and begging, (yes, begging!) for me to put her in the car in the cold so she can sleep there. Aaaaaagghhhhhhh!
Handy Hint Number 22: Some days your kids will make you feel like you are a bad mother. That's the day you are convinced that everything you are doing is wrong and it's the day that you worry about how you will be able to afford the therapy you think your child is going to need to get over your mothering mistakes!!!! Remember that day will end ...... and chocolate is a valid sustaining option until the new day begins.
Mr 2 eats quickly, but will only eat from a couple of options. I try him on new and exciting foods, and he turns up his nose. Hey, he not only turns up his nose, but every part of his body refuses the food. He basically has pureed meat and vegies every night....... still! It's all homemade and healthy and is actually quite yummy, but so are rissoles, so are roast dinners, so is pasta, etc, but he will not eat them. I am open to any hints. I have made dinners which he will not eat to the point of almost spewing as I pry his mouth open to get him to taste the food. I have let him sit for over an hour with food in front of him which he doesn't eat. I have arranged food into funny shapes, I have tried mashing foods but if it's not the vegies and meat then it's no go! Miss 3 and I will come and eat it in front of him and make oohing and aahing sounds of pleasure, but he is wise to our feminine wiles already, and remains firm in his refusal to open his mouth. Miss 3 had limited success feeding him herself (hey, I told you she was handy), but once he realised it wasn't his regular food, it was spat out and no go! The weird thing is that he will eat cake and chips and chocolate witho
ut any qualms or apparent hesitation. Even when his cake is quite a virulent blue or green. (Exhibit A: Mr 2's 2nd birthday cake - name changed to preserve his anonymity!!)Regardless of his apparent love of unhealthy food, he hardly ever gets those things. I am quite obsessive about feeding the kids healthily. They have never tasted soft drink or cordial (other than Ribena!) They aren't allowed to eat flavoured chips, biscuits etc, or any lollies. In fact, I recommend mothers stay away from processed foods as much as possible.
Handy Hint Number 20: Check food labels for flavour enhancer 621 (MSG) and 635. They are dodgey for kids (and I think they're a reason for a lot of the Attention Deficit Disorders and learning difficulties in kids today). Also steer clear of red lollies, cordial, and anything with red food colouring.
I can't believe that foods advertised as being 'healthy options' often have those flavour enhancers in them. 621 and 635 are in pretty much every variety of chips, other than plain potato chips or plain original corn chips. They're also in all those little snack biscuits that have sprinkled 'flavour' you can see on it. Flavour enhancers can also be in sausages, and meats, and sliced ham etc from deli section of a supermarket. They're in some varieties of tinned tuna, they are in pretty much any flavour sachet for any type of quick preparation meal, and definitely in 2 minute noodles and stuff like that (Oh, how I miss my 2 Minute Noodles....) I wouldn't eat anything with flavour enhancers while I was preggos either. OK, I'll get off my anti-flavour enhancer band wagon now......
I just had to reprimand Mr 2 for being too rough with one of his toys, and he flew, crying his little heart out, into Miss 3's arms. She cradled him to her and reprimanded me for being mean to Mr 2, while comforting him and saying 'I've got you little darling. It's ok. I've got you.' She is quite simply adorable, and I am so proud of her being so protective of her brother, and yet I now should reprimand her for being cheeky to me. Ah.... for the love.....!! Sometimes being a mother is like a minefield!
Handy Hint Number 21: When you are reprimanding your children, make sure your threats of punishment are logical and enforceable. For example saying "If you don't stop doing that nothing good is ever going to happen to you, ever!' is not the best example of mothering (a lapse my sister Mrs A will never let me live down!!)
Another problem reprimanding children is when they call your bluff. One night when Miss 3 kept getting out of her cosy warm bed (which I, by the way, would happily have fallen asleep in!!) I said that if she didn't stay in her bed I would put her outside in the car in the cold and she could sleep there (something I would obviously not do, so don't call DOCS!!) and she starts crying and begging, (yes, begging!) for me to put her in the car in the cold so she can sleep there. Aaaaaagghhhhhhh!
Handy Hint Number 22: Some days your kids will make you feel like you are a bad mother. That's the day you are convinced that everything you are doing is wrong and it's the day that you worry about how you will be able to afford the therapy you think your child is going to need to get over your mothering mistakes!!!! Remember that day will end ...... and chocolate is a valid sustaining option until the new day begins.
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