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Attitude & Eating
- Sep 19, 2007 at 12:51 PM
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Sometimes I wonder if I am doing a good job of raising my girls, Natalie and Kira. I know that I do everything that I can do for them. They mean the world to me. Recently, Natalie has had a major attitude towards me. Also for the past year and a half, she has an eating problem too.
I don't know what is causing the attitude problems... I give her attention, I play with her, we read stories, etc. Maybe its just the age. She just gets downright mean towards me, and starts yelling. I ask her whats wrong, and she always says its nothing. I am trying to so hard to figure out what is going on with my little girl. I feel like I am doing something wrong, and I am just not seeing it. This all started probably about a few months ago, and I thought it would be better by now. If anything, its just gotten worse. I really don't know what to do except keep trying. Maybe it is just a phase, and maybe it is just the age too. I just don't like how mean she gets and that she is pushy. Now she isn't like this all the time, its only whenever she is told to do a chore or if she doesn't get her way. Other than that she is a happy little girl.
Now the eating thing... this has been going on for a while now. All she wants is food. She talks about it a lot, and she shows no self control in that area. She is getting big for her age too. She wears a size 12 in pants, and an extra large in shirts. I have seen the children in her class, and they are not big like her. If anything most of them are the same size. Now she has always been a little big, nothing wrong with that. But her sizes in clothes just keep going up and up... It was just 3 months ago she wore a size 10. Now, she is up to a size 12. She has gotten taller, but her waist is getting bigger too. Some people seem to get where I am coming from, and others say just let her eat. They also say she has her whole life to worry about getting fat. Also, that's its normal for her to eat like she does. I'm not kidding when I say she wants to eat like every hour!!! If she has something to do, then she won't ask though. I think she eats particaly out of boredom. Some of it might be that she doesn't know when she is thirsty either. I just worry about it is all. I know that there is a problem with overweight children in our country. I don't want Natalie to have health problems. I want her to be happy and healthy.
I hope that I'm not over-reacting on a lot of this. I just want what is best for my Natalie. Somebody please tell me I'm not crazy!!!
Christina
Comments:
It's good that your concerned now because kids are just sooo mean and they just say what they want. How about offering her 2 healthy choices of items to eat. If she doesn't want any of those choices then she will have to wait for some other healthy choices later. In the past year we have really become more health concious and if we don't have junk food in the house then no one can eat it, kwim.
How about buying some 100 calorie food options. They have cookie ones and crackers and all sorts of good stuff. Raisins, string cheese and crackers, sliced apples w/peanut butter, sliced apples and bananas, Quaker smores granola bars(our favorite), pretzels, graham crackers, pudding. Hopefully she will like some of these.
Like Sandra said sports or dance are great things.
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