Cael and I went to a Bryan College performance at our church tonight. It was an amanzingly beautiful choral arts thing - I enjoyed it so much. He could have passed on it, however, but did enjoy the "dessert social" afterwards with his friends. They had brownies, cookies, cakes, pies, and to top it all off, little bowls of M&Ms on every table (at least every three feet!). He ate his weight in all of the above. I let him play Four Square (please tell me everyone knows about this game - David doesn't have a clue what it is!) with his friends afterwards to make sure he got some of the sugar out of his system before we got home and expected him to to straight to bed.
Anyway, on the way home, we talked about the performance and the desserts and his good time he had playing. But he mostly reviewed ALL of the desserts he had - in order of when he ate them. At the end, he added. "Then I had a big bowl of applesauce mom...you know, to make everything I had eaten healthy."
It hit me hard that I do this to my children. If we have for dinner say, grilled chicken with broccoli and brown rice, I'm good. However, if we have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (mostly jelly with a tiny spread of peanut butter since Cael makes them now) for dinner, I'll always throw a banana slice or a bowl of applesauce at them and insist they eat their fruit. I think I'm seriously trying to cancel out the unhealthy dinner by forcing fruit on them.
Obviously, Cael thought he could cancel out all the junk he ate tonight with that applesauce.
Thought it was funny...
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What? Is this not a correct way to parent? My entire philosophy of parenting if based on the idea I can cancel out all the bad things I do as a parent if I do at least one good thing a day....ok a week. Alright I must go and make up for much over do parenting flaws :)
So what's Four Square?
Is 4 squares the paper game where you fold it up and you move it back and forth and say things like mansion, house, car, and such?
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