How to Make Feeding Children Challenging
 
 
This recipe creates stress and aggravation at the dinner table.
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: American
Serves: Everyone
Ingredients
  • Child (or multiple children)
  • Lack of instruction
  • Assumption of knowledge
  • Conflicting Information
  • Obsession with weight
  • Constant bombardment
  • Different attitudes
  • Family experiences with food
  • Independent Minds
Instructions
  1. Have children.
  2. Desire to feed children well.
  3. Add a lack of quality instruction as to how to feed children well.
  4. Blend with the concept that everyone assumes we know what good feeding practices are (even though nobody tells us what research says.)
  5. Mix in the conflicting information we receive about which foods are actually healthy.
  6. Beat the above knowledge with our society's obsession with weight.
  7. Throw in a constant bombardment of the messages about needing a "balanced diet".
  8. Gently fold into this crazy mixture the experiences with food that we each grew up with.
  9. Cream together our attitude towards feeding children with that of our spouses, our extended families, and/or our childcare, which will all assuredly be different.
  10. Blend in the fact that children HAVE A MIND OF THEIR OWN, thank you very much.
  11. Let simmer indefinitely.
  12. Repeat approximately 33,000 times over 18 years.
Recipe by Balls and Balloons at https://www.ballsandballoons.com/challenges-of-feeding-children/