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Since we are focused on kids today here at Slashfood, I thought there was no better time to look at our less-than-stellar moments as parents when it comes to what we let them get away with in regards to food or drink. iVillage.com has prepared a brilliant little slide show which includes confessions from real-life parents. Though not all of it is related to food, some of the items are really quite shocking. For instance - would you let your kid eat dried cat food? How about licking food crumbs off the rug on the floor? Have you ever filled their sippy cup full of sugary soda?
As for myself, though I'm sure there are plenty more, two situations immediately come to mind when my parenting skills have been more than questionable when it comes to food: At least once a month my daughter and I have popcorn for dinner. This is generally followed up with a chocolate bar, since we need something sweet to balance out the saltiness, naturally. Also, a few times when she was younger and I couldn't leave her home alone, I would wake her up after she had gone to bed, tell her to get dressed, and have carted her across the city in search of a particular food item or restaurant that I had a craving for.
Time to be brave - let's hear some of your confessions. What have you let your kids get away with (or what have you done) when life just happens or we simply get selfish?
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9-06-2007 @3:48PM Angela said... I wouldn't let them cry over spilled milk, I'd make
them clean it up!
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9-06-2007 @4:02PM Susan said... Our popcorn night was about once a week. It never failed. Each year when the nutrition unit came up in elementary school and the teacher asked my two what they had eaten for dinner the previous night, it had ALWAYS been popcorn night the previous night. OOps! And yes - diet soda in a sippy cup was okay in our house especially when hubby and I were having beer as a liquid refreshment. Kids are 42 and 43 now, holding down good jobs - one is an RN in a heart unit - so I guess that wasn't a brain buster.
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9-06-2007 @7:57PM Stacey said... We've gone 24 hours without coming anywhere remotely near eating a vegetable on more than one occasion.
I don't do popcorn or soda with the kids but we've had pretzels for dinner, with Nutella for dipping.
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9-07-2007 @11:08AM KatB said... When our son was young, (7? 8?) hubby was often off on assignment with the military. When it was hot, we'd occasionally, once or twice a summer, "junk it" and go to DQ for dinner. I've also been known to make chocolate waffles with ice cream when its really hot.
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9-10-2007 @12:16AM Michelle said... Hee. That was funny. I haven't given them soda (I'm not a soda drinker myself) but 've let my kids have cereal for dinner before. They kind of love it. But gosh, when they were younger, they sure loved eating stuff off the floor.. Gross, I know.
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