Comments on: Something I don’t want to pass on to my kid http://www.holaisabel.com/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:48:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: supertiff http://www.holaisabel.com/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19102 supertiff Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:21:15 +0000 http://holaisabel.com/blog/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/#comment-19102 i d on't have any advice to offer, but i'm going to eat up--for lack of a better term--all of the advice that has been listed above. i don't have any children, but i think i'm about ready to have some, and then i think about these kinds of things. and, i know. if everyone waited to procreate until they woke up one day and said: you know what? i feel completely ready and capable to bring a whole nother person onto the planet! well, then we would probably be extinct by now. but, still. i get really freaked out. also, i've only been here a few times and right now i'm remembering that you're in seattle and i want to ask you about this one restaurant but i can't remember the name at the moment, so i'm going to have to come back. i hope you don't mind. i promise to bring some more run-on sentences with me. i d on’t have any advice to offer, but i’m going to eat up–for lack of a better term–all of the advice that has been listed above.
i don’t have any children, but i think i’m about ready to have some, and then i think about these kinds of things.
and, i know. if everyone waited to procreate until they woke up one day and said: you know what? i feel completely ready and capable to bring a whole nother person onto the planet! well, then we would probably be extinct by now.

but, still.
i get really freaked out.

also, i’ve only been here a few times and right now i’m remembering that you’re in seattle and i want to ask you about this one restaurant but i can’t remember the name at the moment, so i’m going to have to come back.
i hope you don’t mind.
i promise to bring some more run-on sentences with me.

]]> By: Heather B. http://www.holaisabel.com/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19017 Heather B. Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:00:24 +0000 http://holaisabel.com/blog/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/#comment-19017 My younger brother was a crappy eater for years. Like he used to take his greenbeans and spit them into a napkin so that our parents wouldn't find out. Then he ended up tiny and hardly ate anything and my mother thought he would never grow. This kid is now 6'3" and is roughly the size of Michael Strahan. Dude is HUGE. My brother finally ended up going through a growth spurt and started eating my parent's out of house and home and well...he still does. So I have no words of advice for you except teach him as best you can now, because at some point there's school, then college and you probably don't want a kid who sees a filet of fish or pop tarts as comfort food. That would be me by the way. My younger brother was a crappy eater for years. Like he used to take his greenbeans and spit them into a napkin so that our parents wouldn’t find out. Then he ended up tiny and hardly ate anything and my mother thought he would never grow. This kid is now 6′3″ and is roughly the size of Michael Strahan. Dude is HUGE. My brother finally ended up going through a growth spurt and started eating my parent’s out of house and home and well…he still does.

So I have no words of advice for you except teach him as best you can now, because at some point there’s school, then college and you probably don’t want a kid who sees a filet of fish or pop tarts as comfort food. That would be me by the way.

]]> By: Liza http://www.holaisabel.com/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19009 Liza Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:02:47 +0000 http://holaisabel.com/blog/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/#comment-19009 PS, my BFF is just like The King. For years she determined how much protein she needed to have per day to stay healthy and cooked ~4 oz of plain chicken breast in the microwave every day for dinner. YUCK. That there are people who LIKE to cook is just mysterious to her. PS, my BFF is just like The King. For years she determined how much protein she needed to have per day to stay healthy and cooked ~4 oz of plain chicken breast in the microwave every day for dinner. YUCK. That there are people who LIKE to cook is just mysterious to her.

]]> By: Liza http://www.holaisabel.com/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19008 Liza Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:59:08 +0000 http://holaisabel.com/blog/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/#comment-19008 Noah has been what daycare describes as "a great eater" for the last few months. I think all this brain development, not to mention running full tilt for 10-12 hours/day makes them hungry. One thing I think that you and the King are doing a great job at is modeling that everyone doesn't have to feel exactly the same way about food, or want to eat exactly the same things. He's sharp -- he's going to figure out that you like potato chips more than Daddy. As long as you guys are mostly providing healthy choices, and I'm sure you are, Babboo is going to be ok. One thing we've done on the cookie front is mostly provide things like fat free fig newtons. Noah is perfectly happy with them when he wants a cookie, and I feel like they're not too bad for him. Even so, he has sobbed his heart out on several mornings when I have meanly refused to provide cookies for breakfast. Noah has been what daycare describes as “a great eater” for the last few months. I think all this brain development, not to mention running full tilt for 10-12 hours/day makes them hungry.

One thing I think that you and the King are doing a great job at is modeling that everyone doesn’t have to feel exactly the same way about food, or want to eat exactly the same things. He’s sharp — he’s going to figure out that you like potato chips more than Daddy. As long as you guys are mostly providing healthy choices, and I’m sure you are, Babboo is going to be ok.

One thing we’ve done on the cookie front is mostly provide things like fat free fig newtons. Noah is perfectly happy with them when he wants a cookie, and I feel like they’re not too bad for him. Even so, he has sobbed his heart out on several mornings when I have meanly refused to provide cookies for breakfast.

]]> By: Whitney http://www.holaisabel.com/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/comment-page-1/#comment-19007 Whitney Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:36:23 +0000 http://holaisabel.com/blog/2008/01/30/something-i-dont-want-to-pass-on-to-my-kid-2/#comment-19007 Alas, I have food issues. In my head, stuff like brownies and cake and pie are perfectly suitable breakfast foods. It was no big deal for me to get up in the morning when I was little and a slice of last night's birthday cake be waiting for me on the table with a huge glass of milk. I do not know why my mother thought this was suitable... I try to do better with Evie but it's hard to tell her no when I'm shoving a brownie in my face on my way out the door to go to work in the mornings... Alas, I have food issues. In my head, stuff like brownies and cake and pie are perfectly suitable breakfast foods. It was no big deal for me to get up in the morning when I was little and a slice of last night’s birthday cake be waiting for me on the table with a huge glass of milk. I do not know why my mother thought this was suitable… I try to do better with Evie but it’s hard to tell her no when I’m shoving a brownie in my face on my way out the door to go to work in the mornings…

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