Lazy bloody town and damned sports candy

[ailbhe]

Linnea is really confused by what constitutes "healthy" food and since I explained that fruit contains sugar (we were talking about dental health) she's not sure whether she's ALLOWED to eat fruit any more. I can't see why any child likes bloody Lazytown because it is incredibly irritating and all the people are wholly unattractive and the puppets are horrible, but they do - and it's a bit crazy about the whole food thing.

Sports candy. Fruit is FRUIT, it's not a substitute for sweets and cake. It's worth eating in its own right. And conflating sugar and refined sugar is really annoying.

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[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

This. I'm a firm believer in intuitive eating, and our only rule around food is "If you're hungry, you can eat it" (with due regard for allergies, necessary safety precautions, asking the owner if it wasn't bought out of general household money, etc). My daughter was raised on intuitive eating principles, and at nine years old, she was amazed - amazed - to discover that there are people who eat when they are not hungry. She reported it to me in the tone I might use if I suddenly discovered ET living at the bottom of my garden.

(The other kids were older when I started doing this, so can remember it being different and aren't surprised by people with broken satiety mechanisms - but both of them have now internalised intuitive eating pretty well. Meanwhile, I think some of their friends suspect I myself am some sort of alien in disguise because I don't make them finish their plates when they aren't hungry or don't like my cooking.)

[ailbhe]

I sometimes have to stop my children eating things while they're recovering from minor illnesses - seven satsumas in a sitting feel lovely and cleansing as they go in, but bode ill for later on.

I don't eat when I'm not hungry. But sometimes I don't remember to eat when I *am* hungry, which makes me cross and unreasonable.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes, we do encourage them to be sensible when ill and to follow medical advice, but I've had success with phrasing that as advice rather than a rule, or encouraging them to make their own rule rather than having me impose one - it even worked when C was unable to eat chocolate for a while due to IBS-like symptoms.