This recipe creates stress and aggravation at the dinner table.
Author: Janelle @ Balls and Balloons
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
Have children.
Desire to feed children well.
Add a lack of quality instruction as to how to feed children well.
Blend with the concept that everyone assumes we know what good feeding practices are (even though nobody tells us what research says.)
Mix in the conflicting information we receive about which foods are actually healthy.
Beat the above knowledge with our society's obsession with weight.
Throw in a constant bombardment of the messages about needing a "balanced diet".
Gently fold into this crazy mixture the experiences with food that we each grew up with.
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.
Blend in the fact that children HAVE A MIND OF THEIR OWN, thank you very much.
Let simmer indefinitely.
Repeat approximately 33,000 times over 18 years.
Recipe by Balls and Balloons at https://www.ballsandballoons.com/challenges-of-feeding-children/