[Rose5000]

Originally Posted by Kiara.I

I'm going to flip it around for you. Actually, your children aren't doing the eating thing RIGHT--that sounds like it's because your son has sensory issues. So ditch the idea of the perfect poster child who eats what he's told, when he's told, and accept the child you ACTUALLY have--the one with major sensory needs, so that you need to do some complicated dance to keep him fed.

That means that "Right" is what works for YOUR child, during THIS stage of his development. Who CARES if it matches, say, Weston A. Price? They're not parenting YOUR child, now, are they? What do you suppose their recommendations would look like if they were, day in and day out?

aND I would add, *I* am the parent now, with my own particular weaknesses and idiosyncracies---food fears, perfectionism, ADD, worried about kids teeth because MINE were so filled with cavities as a youngster, health issues, emotional issues, marriage issues---and GIVEN ALL THAT, I must do the best I can with what I've got, huh?

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if the Weston A. Price folks were parenting my kid right now day in and day out, I think they would recommend FOOD over perfection, CALORIES over starvation, SLOWLY adding things to my cooking repertoire as I am able, REJOICE that he loves beef marrow bone broth (!) and cooked spinach and raw cauliflower, build menus around Good-Enough foods he likes, offer lots of food frequently, keep working in my kitchen. Whatever they might recommend, if it was not DOABLE, chuck it.

And one more piece of advice that I don't need any expert to give me I can give to myself: even if the food out in the grocery store is not created by God in the sense that it grew in a garden the way it is presented in a box, it can still be "sanctified by the Word of God and prayer" as 1 Timothy tells us.