Jenn wants me to crosspost this for her
May. 14th, 2009 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyhttp://easierthanyouthink.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/make-it-easy-kids-and-vegetables/
I happen to be home today because it's all drizzly and dreary out and what we were going to go to is just not happening in the rain. So I'm online as Evangeline plays around. She just demolished her toy bin. I was a little shocked, but then I remembered that Ana used to do that on a thrice-daily basis and have decided it probably won't harm it, though I told her not to do it again.
I was *going* to make egg salad for lunch, but I totally forgot and as I found the peanut butter (I knew there was no way it was eaten that fast - I cannily bought chunky last time on the grounds that *I* like it better and everybody else seems to prefer creamy, so it's not like they're mixing it up with my brown sugar and eating it for fun, hmmm?) I guess it's not a problem.
I'll make egg salad later, with berbere. Or maybe scrambled eggs, as per Ana's request.
Anyway, the link. Jenn asked me what I think. I think she misspelled "bland" as "blad". (That's okay. Ana's teacher sent out a notice that used the wrong you're. And inconsistent punctuation - I'm a fan of logical periods myself, but then you have to use them through the whole thing! And inconsistent spelling - pick rain forest or rainforest and then stick with it. Better to be consistently wrong than to waver back and forth. It's the whole school. I'm going to have to send them all some firmly worded emails on the importance of proofing your work before sending it out, it looks really unprofessional. Bad enough for a high school, but this is an elementary school. They're teaching kids how to spell and write, they have to look like they know what they're doing! But I digress.)
I also think she touches on something that I've heard that really annoys me - people praising kids for things that are or should be normal. When Ana eats her broccoli and somebody tells her how "good" she is - that just makes her feel weird. Shut up already! And, worse, when I tease her about not eating carrots and somebody drones on and on about one of those books that involve hiding veggies in food - look, Ana *eats* her vegetables. She just doesn't eat carrots. And she's allowed to not like one food, for crying out loud! It's just carrots! Listen when I tell you so you don't look like a twit in front of the kid, and, simultaneously, plant the idea that she shouldn't eat vegetables. Honestly, do people think before they talk? No, no they do not.
So yes, go read the link on how to get kids to eat their vegetables.
I happen to be home today because it's all drizzly and dreary out and what we were going to go to is just not happening in the rain. So I'm online as Evangeline plays around. She just demolished her toy bin. I was a little shocked, but then I remembered that Ana used to do that on a thrice-daily basis and have decided it probably won't harm it, though I told her not to do it again.
I was *going* to make egg salad for lunch, but I totally forgot and as I found the peanut butter (I knew there was no way it was eaten that fast - I cannily bought chunky last time on the grounds that *I* like it better and everybody else seems to prefer creamy, so it's not like they're mixing it up with my brown sugar and eating it for fun, hmmm?) I guess it's not a problem.
I'll make egg salad later, with berbere. Or maybe scrambled eggs, as per Ana's request.
Anyway, the link. Jenn asked me what I think. I think she misspelled "bland" as "blad". (That's okay. Ana's teacher sent out a notice that used the wrong you're. And inconsistent punctuation - I'm a fan of logical periods myself, but then you have to use them through the whole thing! And inconsistent spelling - pick rain forest or rainforest and then stick with it. Better to be consistently wrong than to waver back and forth. It's the whole school. I'm going to have to send them all some firmly worded emails on the importance of proofing your work before sending it out, it looks really unprofessional. Bad enough for a high school, but this is an elementary school. They're teaching kids how to spell and write, they have to look like they know what they're doing! But I digress.)
I also think she touches on something that I've heard that really annoys me - people praising kids for things that are or should be normal. When Ana eats her broccoli and somebody tells her how "good" she is - that just makes her feel weird. Shut up already! And, worse, when I tease her about not eating carrots and somebody drones on and on about one of those books that involve hiding veggies in food - look, Ana *eats* her vegetables. She just doesn't eat carrots. And she's allowed to not like one food, for crying out loud! It's just carrots! Listen when I tell you so you don't look like a twit in front of the kid, and, simultaneously, plant the idea that she shouldn't eat vegetables. Honestly, do people think before they talk? No, no they do not.
So yes, go read the link on how to get kids to eat their vegetables.
