Kitchen

[house cat]

On 1/15/2014 shoekitty said:

House cat, I would like to point out, when I had my kids late 60's, everyone smoked. We held a baby in one hand, and a ciggerette in the other. We drove the kids around with NO car seats. All they had were those sling things you threw over the seat. You put the babies in a plastic infant seat on floor of car. Good Lord! I cringe thinking of that! Some time just mention to your son people didn't have the knowledge about food back then like they do today! If we knew all the right stuff why in the heck did we feed our babies jarred baby food with MSG, and added salt and fat? Why did we fry everything in bacon fat? I know for fact I never knew what a fat gram was and how to calculate it until 1990! I don't think they even listed calories on the label. Who knew??? The last 20 years we have learned more about food than the last 100 years!

OMgosh! This is so true! I was just talking to someone about the car seat my baby cousins had. It strapped onto the front seat between the driver and passenger. There was no restraint, just a seat with a toy steering wheel and horn! Yikes! I grew up in NYC with cement playgrounds and heavy metal swings. Most of us lived to laugh about it. Not to mention that now, with all the info that we have, there are more fat Americans than ever before.

[house cat]

On 1/15/2014 LoopyLoo said:

Ain't it the truth?---ain't it the doggone truth!! What's that saying?--Too soon we get old; too late we get smart!

And I love the comment I once heard about childrearing: "Before I was a parent, I had six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories!"

[shoekitty]

On 1/15/2014 house cat said:

On 1/15/2014 shoekitty said:

House cat, I would like to point out, when I had my kids late 60's, everyone smoked. We held a baby in one hand, and a ciggerette in the other. We drove the kids around with NO car seats. All they had were those sling things you threw over the seat. You put the babies in a plastic infant seat on floor of car. Good Lord! I cringe thinking of that! Some time just mention to your son people didn't have the knowledge about food back then like they do today! If we knew all the right stuff why in the heck did we feed our babies jarred baby food with MSG, and added salt and fat? Why did we fry everything in bacon fat? I know for fact I never knew what a fat gram was and how to calculate it until 1990! I don't think they even listed calories on the label. Who knew??? The last 20 years we have learned more about food than the last 100 years!

OMgosh! This is so true! I was just talking to someone about the car seat my baby cousins had. It strapped onto the front seat between the driver and passenger. There was no restraint, just a seat with a toy steering wheel and horn! Yikes! I grew up in NYC with cement playgrounds and heavy metal swings. Most of us lived to laugh about it. Not to mention that now, with all the info that we have, there are more fat Americans than ever before.

Yes, I remember those. In 1966 they had these plastic baby seats that you could prop up and adjust with this wire hook in the back. It was just hard rubber plastic. Cost 3.00 back then! You could place those on floor of car or in between passanger and driver, and hang on to kid. Holy Moly, there weren't even any seat belts. I remember driving to los Angeles in a volkswagon squareback with year old twins sleeping in the area where we put the seat down flat. Omg, they would roll around. What were we thinking? I die thinking of that now. And what about those lousy gausze diapers we had to use safety pins with? They would pop open and the baby would scream. But that is what we had. No disposable, tape on diapers. Then they had those awful rubber pants!!. Those rubber pants would fill up and drain down their leg, and all over the crib. Washing all those diapers. They were always stained. Babies had rashes a lot. Yikes, moms have some great conveniences today for sure!

[ID2]

Having health problems myself I always fed my young and growing family very healthy foods. I was on a mission to give my children a good example that they hopefully would follow the rest of their lives. It's worked so far.

[depglass]

I have regrets about how we eat now. After 30 years of being on the road, DH now works around here and is home every night. That means lots of high carb meat and potatoes meals. He will eat only peas and corn and green beans for vegetables. Fruit has to be in juice form. And salads? Forget it. He even got to the point he would carefully put saran wrap on his and put it in the frig for "later." I just gave up. I've probably gained 10 lbs since last summer.

[Puppy Lips]

Great post. I know I did not do my best when feeding my young boys. But I was working full time and my husband traveled. So I did the best I could. I know I did way better than my mother, who never liked to cook, and still doesn't. My parents eat out almost every night to this day. When I was young and living at home, we had so little food in the house, so I had to make do.

My boys had plenty to eat at home, but some of it was not so healthy. You have to find food that your kids will at least try, let alone eat. Many kids are very picky about what they will eat. I tend to think the whole eating organic and such is going overboard a bit. So don't feel guilty when your son tells you he ate "c rap". He is alive and well and can now make his own choices, and that is all thanks to you, house cat!