84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Fet)ruary 3,1990
BY DORIS W. THOMAS
Extension Agent- Family Living
Ease Your Control on
Youngsters Eating
Dietitians have discovered that
the way we feed our children may
be contributing to eating disor
ders. The pattern of forcing child
ren to eat and finish food in spite
of their desires leads to conflict,
stress and adnormal eating habits.
When parents insist children
eat, children will comply reluc
tantly or refuse. Mealtime diffi-
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By Doris Thomas
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Home Economist
cullies - complaining, pleading,
threatening, yelling and crying -
can indicate a serious power
struggle between parent and child.
What causes this power
struggle? The primary issue is
children’s need to feel they have
control over their bodies.
Although children have all the
internal cues of hunger and full
ness, pleasure and repulsion,
parents often ignore or override
these feelings. Examples of this
behavior are a mother forcing her
infant all the formula in the bottle
to keep him or her from crying and
a father giving huge portions to his
child and insisting they be eaten,
because he himself was poor as a
child.
Not all cultures share this pat
tern or have our range of eating
disorders. In South Pacific Island
cultures, parents allow children to
choose the amounts they will eat,
since the variety is limited. Con
versely, Euro-American parents
tend to offer huge varieties in
order to encourage their children
to eat more.
How can this pattern of food
control be changed? Specialists on
feeding behavior problems sug
gest this advice: “Parents are
responsible for what food is pre
sented and the manner in which it
is presented. Children arc respon
sible for how much and whether
they eat.”
They recommend that these
divisions of responsibilities be set
in infancy so that children arc nev
er out of touch with their internal
cues. What parents can do is con
trol the eating environment - the
food offerings and the dining
place and time. By sharing respon-
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overprdtection and permissive
ness, just as they should in the
other areas of interaction.
If the child refuses to eat, allow
the child to refuse. However, set
up limits on behavior, such as
food throwing, and consequences
for refusal, such as no food until
snack time. This way the parent is
victimized and the child still has
the power of choice.
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This approach of setting up lim
its and consequences is supported
by child psychologists, who
recommend that all areas of child
raising be given this type of struc
ture. The benefits of making these
behavior changes include not only
happier mealtimes but also less
chance that children will develop
chronic eating disorders such as
obesity, bulimia and anorexia
nervosa.
of National Corn Grower some 16
billion disposable diapers are used
in the United States each year.
Once they are thrown away they
take 200 to 400 years to degrade
compared with Bunnies which
break down in as little as 3 to 5
years. While diapers only account
for 1 to 2 percent of total landfill
volume in the U.S., landfills will
be filled in five to six years
regardless of the contributing per
centages.
Bunnies, which come in small,
medium and large, are priced
competitively with other brands at
$9.99 for 32 to 60 diapers depend
ing on the size. The diapers are
currently sold in Target, Wal-
Mart, Longs Drugs, Von’s, found
in California and Nevada, and
some east coast chains.
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