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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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lostinrates wrote: »IMO its a balance. Like I say, it gives big dog a thrill to have lo, so if she has them and they shorten her life now by six months.....so what. Her life will have been richer.
That's my thought too. Besides, what's the point in someone being precious about their pet's diet if they don't exercise or train them properly? I can never get my head around that.
I also have a problem with people who think of pets as children... Loving a pet is fine providing you remember that they are a different species that behaves differently; but not training a dog, treating it like a child and then letting it hang out with children is a recipe for disaster. Yet I know plenty of people who do that:eek:.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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There was a documentary some time ago about a tribe in the Himalayas who only ate one food some kind of barley cakes cooked with yak butter. When they had a feast they just ate more of the food than they had to.
I couldn't live like that and I'm sure Chewie couldn't either.:rotfl:
Isaac sounds like he has a good range of food.
As regards leftovers, having a small dog (with its carbon footprint equivalent to a VW Golf) means we don't chuck out leftovers anyway.
Tibetans of some sort? Their diet was pretty limited; OH lost a lot of weight when he was living in a Tibetan monastery for 6 months.
My parents use their 2 border collies as dustbins, for food that's OK for them. As well as avoiding much in the way of onions and garlic, my Mama also limits things such as pasta and bread.lostinrates wrote: »My nieces liked all of that stuff too. ( apart from cereal without milk.....they liked toast or cooked breakfasts) . They had no idea any of it was possibly ' uncool' until they went to school.
Isaac still doesn't, really, know it's uncool. One of the benefits of an ultra-trendy Islington primary.lostinrates wrote: »but the odd bit of onion is now IMO ok, because she's now declining and anything that shortens her life is ok if its making it better. If she were a human I'd be letting her have a tot of gin each night and seconds of pudding.
After she was about 85 or so, my Granny found herself battling periodically with her daughter-in-law, who tried to get her to give up her nightly whisky-and-water, and to refrain from eating butter and eggs and cheese. Granny said it was a bit too late to worry about the effects, and she'd rather be dead anyway than follow my aunt's dietary ideas (-:Anyway, today is the day! James is off to university and I am both excited and a little scared...my first born is going on the next step of the journey of his life!
I am so so proud of him (sorry for the twee post), but just prior to his GCSEs, actually even in his first year of GCSEs, it was not looking very likely at all and now he is a man with a plan...he wants to be a teacher of philosophy as a back up plan if his main career aim fails.
Good for him - it's not remotely twee, we're all NP-remotely-proud of him, too....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
isn't it odd what "children" eat in this country? At home, all children eat everything the parents eat. Food is served in the middle of the table and you eat everything or else it's plain rice with broth :rotfl:
That's kind of how I grew up... Only without the plain rice and broth. We ate the same as our parents, only smaller portions. My brother was intolerant to dairy (he grew out of it as he got older), but that was only a minor adjustment.
Funnily enough, plain rice and (vegetarian) "broth" is now my go to food when I'm not well as it doesn't smell strong and doesn't upset the tummy.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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vivatifosi wrote: »I also have a problem with people who think of pets as children... Loving a pet is fine providing you remember that they are a different species that behaves differently; but not training a dog, treating it like a child and then letting it hang out with children is a recipe for disaster. Yet I know plenty of people who do that:eek:.
I think of it the other way round - it's often a good idea to treat a child as if it were a pet, such as training it to stop, always, when it comes to a road, and sit down when told to.PasturesNew wrote: »
It wasn't until recently that my sibling said to me "she was a bad mother - think about it - would you really refuse to eat food if you were given it?" and I had to admit, no, I was always a hungry/greedy child (and adult). See food, eat it. My sibling said that she'd never got out of bed in the mornings, or got us ready for school - stuff I hadn't really remembered.
My mother was the other way round - did too much for us, I think. When I was at secondary day school, for example, she woke us up at 6.40am with a cup of tea, we went downstairs and had breakfast (toast, mostly) while she made our packed lunches, and then she made sure we left, with the right gear, by 7.10am to catch the school coach. A very early rising household - by the time my brother went to prep school (day school) at the age of 8, all 4 children left the house by 7.20am, and my Dad was usually gone well before we even went downstairs.isn't it odd what "children" eat in this country? At home, all children eat everything the parents eat. Food is served in the middle of the table and you eat everything or else it's plain rice with broth :rotfl:
It shouldn't be unusual for an 8-yer old to eat curry, sushi, seaweed nor mushrooms although I have to say olives are a bit of an acquired taste and gherkins you get in a mass-produced burger often
Since he was about 2 years old, Isaac's eaten the same food as us, really - not when he was a baby, although his food was generally elements of what we were eating. Since then, he's just eaten what's cooked and eaten by us. He despises children's menus in restaurants, because they are pretty much always just chicken and chips, fish fingers and chips, or sausages and chips, and he thinks they are boring.
I don't think Isaac's ever had a fast food burger - not with me, anyway, and I'm pretty sure not with OH either. He's had venison burgers when camping, and my mother sometimes makes burgers for a barbeque in the summer, but she starts with lumps of meat....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »That's kind of how I grew up... Only without the plain rice and broth. We ate the same as our parents, only smaller portions. My brother was intolerant to dairy (he grew out of it as he got older), but that was only a minor adjustment.
Funnily enough, plain rice and (vegetarian) "broth" is now my go to food when I'm not well as it doesn't smell strong and doesn't upset the tummy.
Scrambled eggs on toast is my got-a-cold comfort food.
We all ate the same as children, too, once past the baby-weaning stage. My mother said (fair enough) she wasn't cooking more than one meal per evening, and she was cooking it for 7 people (parents, 4 children, au pair). She still says the same thing.
We were all, as young children, intolerant to milk, and if my mother had milk in her diet, it upset the baby she was feeding. So we had a pretty dairy-free diet, as she didn't use cow's milk, cheese etc in food she was cooking in general, although she did still buy yogurts and so forth for those members of hte family who had out-grown the intolerance. She herself ate and drank, as did still-intolerant infants, kosher stuff (reliably milk-free, unless explicitly a dairy product) and some goat's milk and cheese.
One of my sisters became veggie at the age of 9, and she still ate with us, but it the rest of us were having meat or fish, that element was replaced with some other form of protein.
Once my other sister, and latterly my Dad, were diagnosed as Coeliacs, meals became "Good for Auntie Jemima" as Isaac puts it....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Just entered Herts!We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Just entered Herts!
Welcome to God's own county (with apologies to anyone from Yorkshire)...Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »I think of it the other way round - it's often a good idea to treat a child as if it were a pet, such as training it to stop, always, when it comes to a road, and sit down when told to.
Ha ha ha...
I hadn't thought of that, makes a lot of sense!Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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WE all eat the same but it is more a case of us eating kid friendly food than vice-versa. I try to keep the kids out of MaccyDs but more because it is expensive and a bit chavy than because I think the food is desperately unhealthy and avoiding fast food altogether with kids is I think equally 'precious' the other way - I bet in the grand scheme of things pizza express isn't really any better for you then pizza hut....I think....0
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