Food: Nutrition for the Body and Soul

I doubt Diana Jenner would have a problem with me putting her quotes from the unschoolingbasics message board on my blog. These speak to me so much.


"Kids don't want to be part of a statement
they don't understand (chemicals are bad), kids don't want food provided by
a martyr ("but I grew/made/worked to provide *this* for you, eat it, it's
*better*"). All of the time, they want to be happy. ANY level of
non/standard fare consumed joyfully, nourishes something besides the body
(ask any poor kid who grew up happy and healthy), everything right & perfect
food consumed fearfully nourishes what?
What might eating "good" food with a superiority complex do to the psyche?
I'm not sure from the inside of that one ;)
What will the kids remember, 20 years from now? Happy memories involving
food?
The difference is I *asked* for information I *wanted*
instead of having erroneous information (erroneous in that my enjoyment and
gratitude for an orange needs not a spiel to go along, the orange itself is
gift enough) *thrust* upon me.The dynamic is different when it's an open,
flowing, voluntary exchange versus a "this is what I think is best"
standpoint; one allows for and encourages honesty, one does not.

On Teeth:
Hayden's baby teeth were not of good quality ;) My genes. Again, his dad was
much better in the tooth brushing is fun realm and the kids brushed often.
And still Hayden had a cavity before he was 2!! A big mystery until the day
after my husband died. I got up and announced breakfast making; while I went
towards the kitchen, the kids went to daddy's dresser! Pointing to the top
drawer, I opened it and moved aside the socks to discover a HUGE stash of
Gobstoppers :D He (with a brain tumor and much like a toddler himself) would
gather the kids onto the bed each morning and they'd all have jawbreakers
from the drawer to start their day. Cavity vs Memory. Memory wins. We've
got dentists for cavities, we got no one for dead daddy memories. <3

>
> One of my very good friends, one of the healthiest, most fitness conscious,
> vegetarian, natural living women I have known passed away two years ago. She
> had a brain aneurysm while she was at the gym working out. She was 28. She
> did everything right and she still died young. It was very sad because she
> had spent many years being really unhappy in a job she hated, commuting long
> hours because she felt like she had to. She had just finally started
> university in a program that she was really excited about and taken her
> first week of classes when she died. It was a big lesson about living in the
> moment, because it really is all we have. That is what I think this whole
> discussion is really about, the choice we all have to live either in fear of
> what might be, or in awe of what is. I am trying all the time to choose what
> is.
>
We cannot count the days, merely make the days count.

~diana :)
xoxoxoxo
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