What Works for Me . . . Week 2
Now this post will be disturbing to some people that know me well . . . but one of the things that works for me is not being a freak about germs when it comes to my kids. Now, let me re-emphasize WHEN IT COMES TO MY KIDS because as many of you know personally I am a germaphobe. I don't care to eat on dishes at other people's houses often, usually opt for paper and plastic which I understand may possibly not be any cleaner but provide the illusion to me that I am better off. (At least, I am guaranteed to not find old crusty, dried on food stuck to a new paper good!)
Back to what I was saying about my children . . . I decided early on that I was not going to obsess about what they are exposed to, at least within reason. So while I do not encourage my child to go out in the backyard and eat dog poop, if they did, I would rinse out their mouth and go on with life. My children have tried dog food, their own waste, food that has been stuck who knows where for long enough to not be recognizable, and who knows what else and never gotten sick from any of it. I truly believe that they are actually stronger from this approach than if I was an obsessive mother armed with antibacterial soap and sanitizer hanging from my wasteband.
My children do struggle with some airborne allergies, but they do not have many issues with food allergies which again I attribute to the fact that we started them on ice cream, eggs, and peanut butter all before the age of one.
For those of you that think I just qualified myself as the world's worst mother, my pediatrican actually agrees with me and thinks that one reason peanut allergies and dairy allergies have gotten so severe in the last decade is because of the new approach of limiting children's exposure to them to such a late age.
Anybody else . . . what works for you???
Back to what I was saying about my children . . . I decided early on that I was not going to obsess about what they are exposed to, at least within reason. So while I do not encourage my child to go out in the backyard and eat dog poop, if they did, I would rinse out their mouth and go on with life. My children have tried dog food, their own waste, food that has been stuck who knows where for long enough to not be recognizable, and who knows what else and never gotten sick from any of it. I truly believe that they are actually stronger from this approach than if I was an obsessive mother armed with antibacterial soap and sanitizer hanging from my wasteband.
My children do struggle with some airborne allergies, but they do not have many issues with food allergies which again I attribute to the fact that we started them on ice cream, eggs, and peanut butter all before the age of one.
For those of you that think I just qualified myself as the world's worst mother, my pediatrican actually agrees with me and thinks that one reason peanut allergies and dairy allergies have gotten so severe in the last decade is because of the new approach of limiting children's exposure to them to such a late age.
Anybody else . . . what works for you???
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