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Jan. 17th, 2011 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
molly_oThing the first: My parenting style regarding food is kinda laissez-faire. In theory, every meal has something from every food group and the BG decides what to eat -- in practice, some meals fall short. We also have random rules like "only one little bag of chips per day." Breakfast tends to be "whatever you want, within arbitrary limits determined by me on the spot." This morning she wanted cookies, and my arbitrary limit was "no chocolate snacks for breakfast," which meant the Or*os were right out, but the peanut butter cookies were in.
And y'know, I didn't feel so great about my kid have peanut butter cookies for breakfast, but like I said -- laissez-faire.
But then 15 minutes later, having taken maybe one bite of the cookies, the BG said, "Mama I don't want these." I wound up making her oatmeal instead, and doing a little dance inside my head.
Thing the second: I was at the Dupont Circle metro station the other day and somehow noticed for the first time the Walt Whitman quote carved on the wall above the escalator. And I couldn't help but think of the awesome quote about Whitman from the Trek reboot RPF A Passage that Sings:
"Fuck Walt Whitman. You know he'd demand a handjob and then after he got one he'd roll over and go to sleep, and you'd be like 'excuse me?' and he'd be all 'You, too, received a handjob, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.' No, Walter, that's not how handjobs work. Plus, that beard."
And y'know, I didn't feel so great about my kid have peanut butter cookies for breakfast, but like I said -- laissez-faire.
But then 15 minutes later, having taken maybe one bite of the cookies, the BG said, "Mama I don't want these." I wound up making her oatmeal instead, and doing a little dance inside my head.
Thing the second: I was at the Dupont Circle metro station the other day and somehow noticed for the first time the Walt Whitman quote carved on the wall above the escalator. And I couldn't help but think of the awesome quote about Whitman from the Trek reboot RPF A Passage that Sings:
"Fuck Walt Whitman. You know he'd demand a handjob and then after he got one he'd roll over and go to sleep, and you'd be like 'excuse me?' and he'd be all 'You, too, received a handjob, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.' No, Walter, that's not how handjobs work. Plus, that beard."