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This is my thread on the analogy I made to parents in our zoom forums this week regarding how much learning is enough. I don’t know how long it’s going on for...
1. As a parent, when you feed your child dinner, you give it a plate of what you know it needs to thrive >>
1. As a parent, when you feed your child dinner, you give it a plate of what you know it needs to thrive >>
2. And what you know it likes balanced with what you know it needs. You give it the appropriate sized portion but sometimes that doesn’t work. Sometimes they say “I don’t like it” when they mean they don’t want it, or they want to get to pudding. >>
3. This is like saying they can’t do it because they want to do the preferred activity or go out and play. Or they want you to feed them mouthful by mouthful, because they want your attention >>
4 and you know when you will give in to this because you want the meal eaten and when you say they can sit there til they’ve finished regardless. Maybe you’re the type of parent who serves it up cold for breakfast?>>
5 or you mix it up and give them the broccoli they don’t like along side the chips that they do? You also know how I have is right for your child to eat at any one sitting. When they want more to simply gorge, or when they truly are full and can’t eat any more >>
6 and if you’re like my brother with my nieces when they say “I’m stuffed” because they just don’t want to be there anymore, he makes a deal with them of how much minimum he expects them to eat with no argument or further negatiations. >>
7 and you know whether they are sort of kid who lost to get rid of the awful broccoli first so they can enjoy their chips, or whether they pig the chips and then moan and groan over the broccoli.>>
8 so you know your child and their eating habits. You also know whether skipping one meal is going to hurt them, or whether you have to prise them away from the fridge all day.
Because you are their parent and you know them.>>
Because you are their parent and you know them.>>
9 if you’re not sure whether they eat the same at school as they do at home, ask. School will tell you exactly what their learning habits are like and whether they’re a dating normal or trying to manipulate it to their own advantage. Which is totally normal btw.>>
10 so go back through this thread and apply what you feel about home learning and what your school is expecting your child to do, with how you feel about how you manage your child’s eating.
It will become clear.
You’re doing great.
Good luck.
End.
It will become clear.
You’re doing great.
Good luck.
End.
