Question by Miss Informed: I’m having a bit of a tiff with another mother, she says my style of parenting is “off”! Loooong?
I am a stay at home mother to 2 children. I cook most of the meals, occasionally, if he’s home in time, my husband cooks (he loves to cook). We rarely eat processed food and I make sure they eat a fairly healthy diet. They are allowed things like soda and candy but we rarely keep it in the house and they only get it if we happen to buy some. Same with potato chips and other “snacky” foods. We don’t tell our kids they CAN’T have them, we just don’t keep it around. Instead, our kids are allowed to get cut veggies, fruits, cheese, hummus, crackers–pretty much whatever they want that doesn’t have to be cooked or prepared (and isn’t full of sugar), as long as they eat dinner. Anyway, another mother at my son’s school was commenting on how small my children are and making comments about how I’m stifling my children by cooking all their food and watching their nutrition. She insists that her method of child rearing teaches “self-sustainment” (her word, not mine) and independence. Her non-school age kids go to daycare 3 times a week so she can have “me time.” She said she cooks “mostly out of boxes” because she can’t cook and doesn’t have time, and her kids wouldn’t touch a veggie if they were forced to, so she doesn’t make them. They have free access to snack cakes and soda because she said they need to learn how to restrain themselves by experience. All 3 of her kids are overweight, which she claims is because they are big for their age. She was offended when my son came over and declined a soda, and instead asked if she had any juice. She said no “normal” kid would’ve done that. She’s ticking me off because she is constantly bragging about how independent her kids are, and has even mentioned to the other mothers that my kids are going to grow up and get fat because they aren’t “getting it out of their system early” and will rebel. I don’t think this will be the case. In fact, I think her kids are walking time bombs and are going to have serious health problems. This woman is also very overweight and is always carrying around a soda. How can I get her to lay off my kids and my parenting style in front of the other parents?
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Answer by ARMY*WIFE[boo hiss]
honestly, if she was being that rude to me i would say “no, your kids arent healthy and big. theyre fat.”
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