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This has to be one of the best parenting articles I've ever read. I had so many preconceived notions and ideas on how I would parent, and parenting in general, and it all went out of the window from pregnancy forward. Nothing takes into account your family situation, health, personalities involved, and a whole host of other factors.
Do you agree with the list? Do you have any other “When I have kids I will never…” that were silly in retrospect?
Feed my kid fast food. I was always going to cook plenty of nutritious, healthy meals and make sure she grew up eating only good stuff.
When she was around 3, I'd picked her up from my parents' house (they were my "daycare" and she was hungry. I decided to go through the Burger King drive-through and get a kid's meal and see if she would eat it. She certainly did. I gave her the food and continued driving, and from the back seat I heard her say, "Oh, MAMA, my teeth just sucked out a hot, juicy pickle!" Well. She wanted Burger King ALL the time, and while she didn't get it all the time, she got it more often than she should have. I was exhausted from a long commute and long hours most days, and sometimes it was just easier, plus I got home so late every night that it would be after seven before we walked in the door and THEN I'd have to start cooking. It just didn't work.
Now she's almost 22, and she won't touch fast food. She's extremely concerned about eating healthfully. But she ate WAY too many Burger King meals as a kid.
In the side bar here when I saw "I will never.........", I thought, "Never say never". That is what I have learned over the years. All the things in life I would never do and then reality hit.
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