"Wah wah, you're a horrible mommy!"

[katsy]

Yes. At 6 years old, my kids use the term "horrible". Especially when describing ME.

Their lunches are HORRIBLE because I am a HORRIBLE mommy.

I prepare healthy lunches, organic snacks and fruit.

Their friends ALL have "all-natural, healthy NEWMAN'S Oreos". Their friends have NICE mommies. I suck.

Yep, my fault I introduced them to organic shopping and the terms "healthy" and "all-natural" which they use against me now.

Obviously, everyone else's mommies know how to feed their children. The trick to being a good mommy is packing all-natural COOKIES and lots of them in their lunch.

The twin terrors have lost the battle for Lunchables. I won't budge on that no way EVER and they know it. Instead, they would like fresh organic pasta with one-half of a grilled cheese sandwich some days, homemade soup and hard-boiled eggs the next... get the picture? They want me up at 5 am COOKING PERSONALIZED gourmet (snigger) meals every day. I'm a working mom.

So. Should I give in and pack ONE cookie plus main course and fruit, or TWO cookies with lunch? Forget that personalized stuff. I'll put in an "I love you" note instead. Maybe I should tell them to ask their friends to pack lunches for them also. Grrrrr

I need a cookbook for kids lunches. Ideas?

Maybe I'll just start a Mommy's Union and demand a living wage be paid by these little $%^& darlings.

[wildeyed]

1. My son put his fists on his hips and announced to the entire library

that I was *not* his mommy and he didn't have to go home with me. Luckily the librarians know us, plus he looks just like me so no one called the cops.

Later he informed me that his real mommy lets him have donuts and table sugar for lunch, so that is what he would like me to prepare for him, too. :rofl:

He also claims to be 11 1/2 years old (he is really four), named Jefferson, from Australia and wrestles crocodiles for fun. :rofl: :rofl:

My kids are HORRIBLE about eating too, and creative about devising ways to torture me over it, but I try not to get too wrapped up in their drama. I prepare three healthy meals a day, plus a snack after school. They can eat or not, but they get nothing else. Too much complaining earns a time out. Sometime they get a treat after dinner, a cookie or popsicle, sometimes not.

Their new trick is to refuse to eat dinner and then claim to be starving at bedtime. So now I save their dinner and trot it back out again. Usually they were not hungry enough to eat dinner, just cheerios or graham crackers. But hey, the negotiations delayed bedtime for 10 minutes, so it was not a total loss in their column. :mad: So recently I have made a rule that after I say dinner is officially over, no more food, period. It is an endless negotiation. Sigh.

If it was me, I would put one cookie in the lunch bag, with the caveat that if they complain about it, they get zero cookies the next day :evilgrin:

[katsy]

2. You just gave me an idea.

:think:

I'm going to show them your reply tomorrow and tell them you're their mommy and I have to listen to you.

Your son is a scream! Donuts and table sugar? :rofl:

Are you writing these little gems of theirs down in a diary? You should!

One cookie. No complaints.

[wildeyed]

3. Nooooooo!

:scared:

They sound like "Jefferson", just in stereo.

Do you have the book Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child? http://www.amazon.com/Setting-Limits-Your-Strong-Willed-Child/dp/0761521364/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-8909081-8722513?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189171722&sr=1-1

It has been a complete life saver for me dealing with my little trial attorney. The author's basic thesis is that kids come in two flavors, easy-way learners and hard-way learner. Hard-way learners don't learn from words and warnings, they learn from experience. So the trick with that kind of learner is to provide clear direction and then consistent, proportional responses when the direction is ignored. Which it will be. Trust me on that. Such a good book if you have kids who are inclined to argue about every little thing.

My older child is an easy-way learner. I can give her unclear directions and inconsistent follow through, but because her basic motivation is to please, it doesn't really matter. She is a hardcore perfectionist and has other issues, so it is not all smooth sailing with her either. But the power struggles are not as constant or intense as they are with my younger child.

[katsy]

4. Too late. Stop begging.

That's a nice smilie ya' got there. A pix says a lot. I'll say that's you and you'll be emailing their lunch to them. A frightened mommy is their absolute favorite. bwa ha ha ha ha.

I'm now officially the sitter.

:evilgrin: :bounce: :evilgrin:

Hubby is at the library with the terraists. I just asked him to look for the book. He said "how do I do that?" :eyes:

Silly rabbit... I told him to ask my daughter to get it. He said she'll come back with 9 novels and a dozen books. He could learn a thingy or two from her.

BTW - The listening library books have been a huge success with my daughter. Thank you for that. It is wonderful!

And for Monday:

My son would like Grilled cheese, steamed green beans, slivered carrots, 1 cookie and fresh squeezed OJ.

Darling (snigger) daughter would like Chicken Tempura, steamed edamame, 179 organic cookies and a 2:1 part mix of fresh squeezed OJ/Cranberry juice.

Email lunch by 11:30 am and THANKS!

[wildeyed]

5. Ahhh, so they wanna play tough?

Tell the little terraists cyber-mommy says no deal.

Peanut butter sandwich or quesadilla, pick one.

Carrot sticks and/or apple slices.

Milk or water.

No cookies. Sorry. But they can have one after dinner *if* they don't behave too heinously, eat all their food, the sun and moon are properly aligned and we haven't run out (read I ate them all first ;)).

:hi:

I love storynory, too. The entire family listens with great interest when we go on long car trips.

[katsy]

6. Will do!

They didn't have that book available at the library so I'll pass by the local bookstore for it.

My DD did bring home an interesting book by Alfie Kohn: Unconditional Parenting, Moving from rewards and punishments to love and reason.

Have a great weekend wildeyed.

Give your little people lots of hugs! Maybe they'll be merciful.

:hi:

[tigereye]

9. I tried to tell my kid that my college buddy's kids eat edamame and eel

no such luck. My son was horrified! ;)

[Dora]

7. Two cookies M-Th, three cookies on Fridays.

Life is short.

Give them cookies now so they have sweet things to remember if ever there are no more cookies to be had.

We are part of an overconsumptive, crassly commercial society that can't or won't feed itself properly. You're giving your kiddos a Diet of Champions with those homemade lunches. What a wonderful example you're setting - and I'm sincere. What is the point of denying them organic cookie goodness? It's not like you're hooking them up to a 24-hour HFCS feed.

COOKIES!!!

:bounce:

[katsy]

10. But who wants to compete with 6 year olds for all the cookies!

I ate them.

:toast: Beer and cookies. YUM.

:evilgrin:

[wildeyed]

12. Beer and ice cream.

:party:

[katsy]

13. Beer!

:woohoo:

[Dora]

15. That's why we buy three packages of cookies for the pantry...

Repeat after me

one for them, two for me...
one for them, two for me...
one for them, two for me...
one for them, two for me...
one for them, two for me...

[tigereye]

8. I always say "Yeah I"m so horrible"

when my son tells me I"m mean, etc. regarding stuff like this. :rofl:

or I'll say, honey, you don't know what horrible is.... (stuff I encounter in my career as a MH professional)


I do allow cookies in lunch, but then he has a living lunch program at his school 3 days per week, so I know he'll eat more healthy fare, too.

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. If you're not pissing someone off

you're not doing your job.

As God's representative on earth to these children, you need only take their opinion into account to the degree you deem appropriate. After that point, they can just suck it up.

[katsy]

14. I was taken aback the first few times...

kept looking around like they were speaking of someone else.

I'll just have to get used to it.