So, it is Monday and I am going to start the weight loss focus again. It is a challenge when little ones are around - to focus on changing eating habits, because the little heathens just do not want to change theirs! So, I had a revelation that the reason they don't like to change is because they are not in control. Hmmm...yes, sometimes wisdom is so simple!
The challenge is having the energy to make it fun for them and giving them the choices so as to feel they are still in control. Yes, I know...here is how that is going:
"Nana, I don't like chicken." Ty says
"He doesn't like the brown grilled stuff" says Lexi
"What if we don't grill the chicken" Nana offers
"I only like chicken nuggets" Ty replies
"He doesn't like meat" Lexi chimes in
Escalating my voice because I am out of patience and definitely don't want to cook something else...I say "what do you want to eat Ty?" "Your choices, are nothing or chicken." Now, I don't need to tell you how well that worked. It seemed like he was given a choice. That was my goal to offer up a choice. It worked so well, I fixed him peanut butter and jelly sandwich and that was the end of choice making. Such wisdom, I simply amaze myself.
Okay, so I am out of practice with this, after all it has been 20 years since I had a 6 year old running around my house.
Now for the body makeover challenge...Where are my choices in that!
No wonder I can't do what I want to do...I am too busy trying to do what I DON'T want to DO!
2 comments:
Girl, you let those rugrats off too easy. My mama would have sent me to bed hungry and served me cold chicken for breakfast. If I didn't eat it then, she would have wrapped a plate of it in foil and took it to school. While I'm coloring and playing with my friends, she would have given to the lunch ladie and when I arrived at the cafeteria with my free lunch ticket, they would have handed me that plate of cold chicken with a note from my mom that would have went something like this: "If this plate comes back home with this chicken on it, I will beat you unto the middle of next week."
i suck at this...it is more fun being a grandparent then a parent...
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