My favorite rule?
Chris is partial to this one.
One week in and it's helping. Of course, we don't expect perfection, but it's nice to see the big kids at least taking it to heart and making an effort.Putting kid-friendly options on the table helps. Tonight I'm doing a big pot of chicken noodle soup and homemade bread and later in the week I'm trying a new recipe with beef and broccoli over rice. The weekend is reserved for pizza night and breakfast for dinner, always popular kid-options!
What are you cooking this week?
7 comments:
These are great! Thanks for sharing!! :)
Your kids do pretty well, I think and a good reminder is always in order (for all of us!).
AWESOME! Thank you for sharing. I'm going to try this at the House of Phogles. :)
Dude, it's such a small world! My friend Brooke from when we lived in NY did this! I love that I'm seeing it pop up all over the place. I think we're going to start using the same rules too!
We have all these rules, but I think having them in writing is a superb idea! Now, where to put them...we have very little wall space in our kitchen.
Just had chicken noodle and bread last night at our house. Yum!
Our rule is you have to take a "Thank You" bite of everything on your plate, as in "Thank you for making this for me! I would LOVE to try it!" but they aren't forced to eat all of it or even an arbitrary # of bites. If I'm serving a side of bread or something else they REALLY like, we have a rule about eating 1/2 of what's on their plate before loading up on carbs :) I'll be checking back to see what other people do. Great post, Natalie! As always!
Sorry! Me again! Just having some afterthoughts about my comment... The bread thing... asking them to eat half of what's on their plate before bread puts the power in their hands (I'm a big believer) so that the choice is in their hands. They are free to choose not to eat the strange looking soup if they don't want to, as long as they also accept the choice not to get the bread. They are also free to choose to get over their fear of the strange looking soup if they REALLY want that bread. Okay, maybe that was self-explanatory, but it's all about them feeling they have power in their lives to make choices and live with them. We, as parents, hope these experiences at the dinner table translate into real-world experiences outside our front doors, right? This is the essence of parenting, in my opinion... From "We all help clean up" to "Eat half before you get your bread," it's really not about food so much... these are life skills!
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