Junk Food?!

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Thanks so much to the anonymous commenter who decided to tell me what my kids eat and do not eat on a daily basis. Unless you know us, which you must because you clearly know our meals down to the detail (sarcasm) I suggest you re-evaluate when and when not to give suggestions on raising MY children.


For the information of my readers, my children DO get sweets. Daily. I am not going to withhold snacks from them, or as this lovely commenter puts it, "junk" from them just because they are small. They are 3 and 2. Everyone likes a cookie now and then and if Braden wants doughnuts for breakfast, chances are he will not know any harm because of it. He's eating and growing. Oh and they're healthy. No shots and all. Imagine that.


Another thing since it's so early the morning and I feel like I already need to defend my choices on MY OWN BLOG. Which I dont. But I will for the sake of other mothers who are having a hard time getting their stubborn and strong willed 3 year old to eat perfectly healthy food for lunch and get told that they are feeding them nothing but junk and that they will have an eating disorder because of it.

To that I want to say this.
Do not EVER come to my family's blog and claim any kind of disorder over the lives my children. No one said one thing about forcing Nora to eat. I simply made her try. one bite. And it's my business how I want to deal with my child. The Lord's hand is upon my children and Nora will never have any kind of eating disorder or mental struggle because of the prayers that her father and I have said over her since she was in my womb; protected and nourished by me just as she is today.


Who are you mystery commenter? Thinking that we get McDonalds "alot of this"?
We get McDonalds when we want to. And will continue to. How do you know that when I go to McDonalds I am not simply ordering for myself? Nevertheless, my kids can have chicken nuggets and apples and fries as much as they want if they are eating. And Growing. Get the point? Growing. Growing. Growing. And they are. Nora being underweight is consistent to the size on the chart she has always been. She is consistently growing, just consistently small. If you know my sister or I (which you obviously think you do) then you would see we arent very big women either. I assume she'll have some of our little genes. And that's not such a bad thing;)


And while I'm still defending my own parenting, that I happen to be pretty proud of...once again, if you arent with us every day, eating in our home or interacting with my children-how do you support your claims on what we do or do not eat. If you knew me, you'd know how much time I put into making healthy meals for my children every night. We eat at home, around our dinner table every night that we can. After we pray over our meal, we eat as a family. In our home. Statistically I'm sure that my children eat out far less than most other children do and I'm extremely proud of that.

I would love if you'd email me or identify yourself in a comment rather than growing a bunch of courage to talk to me without me knowing who you are or your opinions of me or my parenting. I love having this be a public blog. I will never close or monitor comments. However, I cannot stand when someone is so cowardly to leave a comment and then never confront me in some other form.

It's funny how I simply asked for advice on how to get my 3 year old who is going through a phase where she is protesting to eat and I get another reader who tells me how terribly I'm feeding my kids. I don't need your opinions but love your input and advice.

For those of you who are just now reading that we do not immunize our children, lay off for today. We can talk about it, post about it, debate about it another day. Again-the choices of one family need to remain inside that family. The judgements of other people should not even be up for discussion inside the home of a family who is firm in their ways of parenting and beliefs on certain issues. It's offensive and quite uneducated to do so. Do not offend my intelligence by making it seem as if I do not know how to feed my children the right way or make the choices you might make for your own kids. I have done enough research and spent enough time dirtying my knees in prayer for my kids to know that they are going to be perfectly fine; junk food and all.

Also I believe it is just plain tacky to interfere or comment EVER; online or not, on some one's parenting unless they are hanging their child by their toenails and beating them. Unless something I write is verging on child abuse, it shouldnt be open for your criticism. Plain and simple.

I post about the things my kids and eat and how they eat mostly because it's funny. They have quirks. Braden likes to carry a bag of doughnuts around at breakfast time and I think it's cute. I dont want to forget it when he's grown. Neither of my children are even bordering on childhood obesity. If they were, we could have this talk.

Again, my family's blog. My choice what to write about. Shouldnt be up for discussion. Sorry I asked for advice in the first place.

As health conscience as I am, I cannot believe that I am even writing about junk food on my blog. As if I'm going to let them grow up eating nothing but sweets and junk. Hardly.

I must go now-Nora just woke up and I should get her a plate of chocolate cake with a big glass of kool-aide for breakfast. Have a good day all.