Thanks for the ping! I am SOOOOOOOO thankful my kid is grown. The government is moving in too fast to tell parents how to raise their kids. Scares the hell out of me!
You're very welcome.
Tell me about it - remember, my kid is only 8.....I've got a LOOOOOOOOOONG way to go.
"I am SOOOOOOOO thankful my kid is grown."
Mine, too. I mean, how on Earth was I able to raise him without Mother Government directing me every step of the way? LOL!
My kid is now, technically, a 'Starving College Student' living on beer and mac-n-cheese. He came over for dinner the other night, and scarfed down EVERYTHING in sight. I'm glad the cats were out in the barn, or they would've been fair game too! Or would that be 'Fare Game?' LOL!
We NEVER had soda or Doritos or any of that stuff in the house while he was growing up. The furthest I would go for "snacks" were pretzels and air-popped popcorn when we had Family Movie Night on some weekends. I packed his lunch faithfully for a full decade, and he was allowed to have School Lunch if he paid for it himself.
For me, it wasn't a question of what the school wanted to feed him, it was one of Economics. It was CHEAPER for me to feed him healthfully (sandwich, yogurt, fruit, cookies, money for 2 cartons of milk and a totally EMBARASSING 'Love or Motivational Note') from home, but he was absolutely free to spend any of his own EARNED money on Snickers Bars if he CHOSE to. And we never had any health or obesity problems with this kid. He's tall, slender, has a great set of choppers due to lack-o-soda in his teeth-growing years and no health problems to this day.
And he's so cheap now, moths fly out of his wallet when he opens it, ala Jack Benny, LOL!