Good morning everyone, some heavy questions huh. I suppose you could say my day started out heavy, at least mentally. On the drive into work I heard a radio commentary where consideration ought to be given to legislating that smoking around kids is a form of child abuse. Now, let's hit the brakes for a moment. It is not my intent to debate smoking as a topic. Certainly if you'd like we can dabble in that direction, go for it. However hearing this commentary gave me cause to wonder similarly about how we feed our kids.
Let me spit ball some thoughts at this blog page, I used to be the champion spit-baller in the 3rd grade, you've been warned.
Parents/Guardians are responsible for feeding their kids...
Not everyone is in an economic situation which allows them to feed their kids perfectly balanced/portioned meals daily...
So is it ok for those with less economic means to feed their kids lesser food while holding those with greater economic means to a different standard of care for feeding their kids?...
Not everyone accepts the notion that fast food is as absolutely unhealthy as many would have us think...
Fast food is unhealthy, my opinion, there just is no way to consider the core menus of the most popular fast food joints as healthy; but some do try...
Leave Ronald McDonald's clown alone, he is not a pusher akin to the dope dealer, is he?...
Abuse is to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way according to the dictionary...
But legally, what constitutes abuse?...
How can feeding your kids be considered abuse?...
Feeding your kids is smart, feeding them well balanced/portioned meals is preferred...
Feeding your kids fast food is certainly choosing to feed them lesser quality of food, but isn't it just that, a lesser choice made?...
Over feeding kids into obesity, say 6,781 calories a day diet; is that abuse?...
If not that amount, what amount of over-feeding is where it becomes abuse?...
Addicting, by feeding our kids fast food are we providing them with an addiction that they will have to live with or break someday?...
If exposing kids to over feeding, or fast food, is equal to pushing them into addictions; then what about video games, violence on screens, and sunshine?...
And I can go on...
So, there is a big hairy dose of fried fury for thought.
Myself, I don't think there are easily definable boundaries for abuse when it comes to feeding our kids. Beating our kids, surely that is more easily definable as to what is abuse.
Feed your kids, start with that; get them fed any way you can. Then if you can feed them healthier choices you should. But mandating via legislation that you have to feed them as healthy as you can or else you are abusive; I am not ready to go there.
It is a blurry set of lines that separates what we as parents/guardians of kids have to do and what we should do. In general where it is blurry, I tend to want to leave it up to the parent to make the decision, not a legislative body whose purpose is too often blurred by interests that are far from the point of the matter being legislated.
Ok, enough from me. If I go any further this will become all too political and I try to not get into political debates here. Why I deviated on that guideline today I do not know.
Feed your kids, love your kids, laugh with your kids, and buy them Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup Championship t-shirts for crying out loud!
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