We know that we ,as parents, have the largest impact on our children. From infancy on they mirror us, good or bad. We often can learn a lot about ourselves just by watching them.
When I was pregnant with my son I didn't have any odd food combination cravings. But I did crave strawberry milk and drank it often during the early stage of my pregnancy until the doctors told me to stop. Put quite simply either I stopped drinking the strawberry milk or they could give me shots to control my sugar. Thus the end of my new favorite drink. While I kicked the habit, unbeknownst to me, my unborn son evidently had developed an addiction. From an early age he requested strawberry milk and still drinks a glass in the morning and one in the evening.
Likewise I ate breakfast foods regularly while carrying him and breakfast is his favorite meal no matter what time of day. Beginning to see a connection?
When he began to wiggle around and show signs of crawling, I looked for something to motivate him and came up with a twinkie. The package was shiny and made a nice crackle sound when squeezed. And it worked. He learned to crawl that day. Nowadays when at the grocery store it never fails that a box of sweet cakes always seems to find it's way into our cart. I often wonder if I would have gotten the same results if I had used broccoli instead. Something tells me I would have been sadly disappointed.
About Me
- Kristi
- A woman just trying to stay sane while homeschooling a child, keeping house, caring for an aging parent, and playing when I can. A lover of the simple things in life yet seems to always make it more complicated than it has to be. So come join me here while I rant, fret, laugh, cry, or finally loose it completely. I could use the support or at least have witnesses!
