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murielm99

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7. My parents were strict because

Reply to sdfernando (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 3, 2019, 05:06 PM

Sep 2019

many of their generation behaved like that. It was not necessarily good. I did not force my children to do the same thing. They did have to try everything, though.

I gardened when my kids were growing up. We limited processed food. If they felt deprived of anything, it was not running to McDonalds all the time or being allowed to drink a lot of pop.

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Bristol (UK) teenager loses sight and hearing due to processed food diet [View all] Eugene Sep 2019 OP

Maybe his situation was more extreme than I can imagine, but I grew up in a home where hlthe2b Sep 2019 #1

Ha! Exactly. We weren't picky because... ret5hd Sep 2019 #2

We were not allowed to be picky, either. murielm99 Sep 2019 #3

Its good to get a balanced diet for sure sdfernando Sep 2019 #5

My parents were strict because murielm99 Sep 2019 #7

Sounds like you are a good parent /nt sdfernando Sep 2019 #8

Same here CDerekGo Sep 2019 #4

Child abuse Mosby Sep 2019 #6

I don't think you can totally blame the parents, in the case of a teenager LeftishBrit Sep 2019 #10

From what I understand, it wasn't just an ordinary 'junk food diet' LeftishBrit Sep 2019 #9