#136

As a parent, should I make my daughters clean their plates at every meal? Is that teaching them to eat even when they are full? Which might lead to obesity. Or is it helping them get the food their body needs? Because a two year old doesn't know what is best.

Oh, the joys of parenting. Constantly wondering if you are making the right choices, or scarring them for life!!

And that book I told you about last night, "The Hippocratic Myth". Last night I said I was liking it. Well, after blogging, I went to bed and read. And realized I am not digging this book as much! The author is striking me as very bias in a political way. He said "The GOP is bad bad bad because of A, B, and C" (I'm paraphrasing, obviously!) and I was just thinking about how much I agreed with the GOP! So yeah, not digging that about the book. It almost feels like all the opinions I share, he views as negative.

I am going to try to stick it out. I will read some more tonight, and hope it gets better. I really don't like to give up on books. But sometimes, you have to.

I was really wanting some alone time this evening. After dinner, I asked J to take the girls for a walk. Either he didn't want to, or he got lost in what he wanted to do. Either way, he didn't take them for a walk. Not only that, but he didn''t really focus on them too much. He was looking stuff up on the computer, and who knows what else. Which drives me crazy.

What do I have to do, say "I need you all to leave. Now."?? I don't want to do that. Because I love them. But I really felt like I needed a few minutes where Daddy was in charge, and I didn't have to listen to anything...