{"id":1172,"date":"2013-04-27T20:06:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T03:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2013-04-27T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T03:06:44","slug":"thank-you-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, thank you!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you for all your thoughtful responses, stories and sympathies on my Elsa eating post. I also talked to one of my IRL best friends who may just be the best mom I’ve ever met. We basically have the same parenting philosophies, but she’s a lot calmer than me. She sent me THIS LINK<\/a> which basically says everything you all were saying.<\/p>\n

I have a problem–I don’t understand how number 1 and number 2 work together. Number 1 says trust a child’s hunger instincts but number 2 says to have scheduled eating times.<\/p>\n

After all your comments, talking to my friend, and working things out in my own head I’ve come up with a plan (that Mike supports, though he was not really a part of the making of the plan since he was working. He has a big presentation this upcoming week).<\/p>\n

From now on all eating will take place at the table. Meals always take place at the table anyway, but I’ve gotten into a bad habit of letting her bring snacks down to the basement to watch TV. That’s over. Snacks will be much more regulated. When she goes on her “I’m hungry, I’m hungry, I’m hungry” kicks she will have the option to eat various fruits that I know she likes. <\/p>\n

When she cries for junk food, she’s going to be in time out until she stops crying.<\/p>\n

We’ve already started implementing this on Friday and things are already getting a little better. The true test will come next week when I will be home alone with no adult back-up for a week.<\/p>\n

And, of course, I will still be talking to her doctor about it at her 3 year check-up. My sister has type I diabetes and celiac disease, so I definitely want to have a conversation with a medical professional. I’d really like both kids to get tested for celiac now that we know my sister has it.<\/p>\n

I’m really hoping she’s just having a growth spurt. I know kids do go through phases of eating more food than usual. With Erik it was always like he subsisted on air, then suddenly he would spend a few days eating regular size meals. I guess since she is already eating regular sized meals, eating constantly might be her way of having a growth spurt? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you for all your thoughtful responses, stories and sympathies on my Elsa eating post. I also talked to one of my IRL best friends who may just be the best mom I’ve ever met. We basically have the same parenting philosophies, but she’s a lot calmer than me. She sent me THIS LINK which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}