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Bad Parenting 101
So, I found myself wondering today, how bad a parent I could be. How far would I go before someone, a friend, family member or someone else, would draw a line in the sand and say, "Enough, is enough. What you are doing is bad parenting! Change your habits now or I'll ...insert threat here..."
So, what makes me think about this? Well it was started by some of the things I subjected my children to in the last 48 hours but was then brought to my thought life through a discussion thread started by Essential Baby based upon an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald about a car jacking with a child in the back seat. The thread asks, 'Is it ever OK to leave a child unattended in a car?' Of course, this was totally irrelevant to what my children had undergone and it just happened to cross my browser whilst I was in a contemplative mood.
You see, in the last two days I have subjected my children to two of the most unhealthy lunches I have ever served. Yesterday I simply could not drag myself downstairs to the fridge to pull out fresh vegetables to serve with tinned flavoured tuna as is our usual practise. Instead, I found myself carving up rolls and plastering them with peanut butter and honey. Afterwards, once one child was having an afternoon nap I had an awful pang of guilt but pushed it aside.
Today things only got worse, ever half hour from 9.30am one of children would ask for chocolate. Today is the 14th day that my children have been in possession of chocolate from Easter festivities and this rationing approach had my boys believing that they needed three doses of chocolate daily and that half hourly reminders were sufficient to wear Mum down. They were right, so I cracked and made today the official training day for 'Bad Parenting 101' and made my home the training ground.
Lunch time rolled around and instead of scurrying into preparations I just called the children to the table before going to our 'secret stash' and pulling out each child's remaining chocolate. I sat the remaining chocolate in front of each of them and said 'go for it' offering the opportunity to declare that they had consumed enough and I would then put what remained away for later. Yes, my children ate nothing but chocolate for lunch. Their mother passed her training program with almost perfect marks.
I say 'almost' because I was unsuccessful and seeing my children gouge their way through all their chocolate. In fact, was somewhat surprised that two out of three actually left some chocolate for another occasion, albeit chocolate crumbs. None of them showed any signs of immediate ill health either, which is somewhat strange because I ate my chocolate stash, which was half the size of the boys, and found myself twitching with a caffeine and sugar high. Maybe their outdoor play in the hours beforehand prepared them for their chocolate feat? I am not sure.
Did they boys learn from their chocolate fuelled meal? At least two realised that they have limits, what those limits were and very sensibly, how to stop when you reach them. As for the third, I can say he had the smallest chocolate portion left and that really he just realised how much he liked chocolate since he usually has it so rarely. Did I learn from the experience? Sure, I realised that two of my children were growing up way too fast and that one way or another that chocolate would have been consumed it was just a matter of determining the time frame over which this would occur and how often I could be bugged for something before I would crack. The current standing is being bugged every half hour for ten hours a day over the period of two weeks.
Before you call the Right Bite 'traffic light' Healthy Food and Drink police, two other people can vouch that my children did eat a vegetable laden bolognese for dinner tonight and had curried chicken in similar form the night before. They also, of course, prepare their own cereal based breakfasts. So not all nutritional intake was lost.
It's okay now though, really. I survived the 'coming down' of my own high without breaking into a headache. The only chocolate left from Easter now is 'corporate' and to be shared with everyone in the family as dessert after dinner. I am sure there will be none left a week from now.
Life will again return to normalcy and tuna will again be cracked for lunch next week. No more chocolate shall haunt our home and pose as temptation for those with the weakest sense of self control. Of course, that means that they will be back to bugging Grandma for chocolate in the form of frogs when visiting for dinner. Fantastic - the, "Enough is enough..." lecture would someone else's problem and not mine!?!
If bad parenting were limited to giving children peanut butter and jam rolls and chocolate, the world would be an enormously better place.
No-one needs to detail the kinds of horrible, shocking things that a really bad parent can do to their kids - or, even worse, let their kids do. That you worry about simple things like diet and giving treats says you're a better parent than average, in my opinion.
Have fun,
Paul
Paul, I am at a point where I have decided that 'worry' is a wasted sentiment. In fact, I can see why so many people and books, including the Bible, says not to worry. You see, I have children who challenge my nerves every day and if I allowed myself to be worried any time this occurred then I would be a hospitalised wreck. Only yesterday was one of my children walking along the beams of our 3 metre high pergola again and then later in the afternoon my two year old shattered a front tooth after accidentally being knocked over.
I choose to give my kids a pretty free reign when it comes to their activities but I am much harder on myself as I know that my children pick up so much from those that they see as role models with Mum being no exception. I expect to teach them good eating habits, not just by what I serve, but through my own consumption habits also.
This day to me was one that I was not 'worried' about but rather one that I 'dreaded' because I cannot bring myself to eat that much chocolate so watching my children do it was plain daunting. The consequences of the caffeine are unpredictable and, in our house, sugar is just dangerous when it comes to our children (and their mother)!
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