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  • Is Junk Food a Custody Issue?

    Is feeding your kids white bread, or God forbid high fructose corn syrup, the  kind of thing that should lose you custody of your kid in a divorce?

     
    I don't think so -- even though I am a strong believer that most of what is marketed to kids is crap and shoudn't be fed to anyone, ever. But I certainly don't fool myself that the bowl of Pirate's Booty I just handed my daughter to snack on is anything other than fancy Cheetos. If most of what you feed your kids is good, wholesome, real food that bears more resemblance to how it came from the ground or the animal than to a lab-created Frankenfood, a preference for white bread or a daily bowl of Doritos is not that big a deal.

    Laura Bennett agrees with me. In this piece from Alternet she recounts running into a mom at her sons' school who was livid with her ex-husband, livid to the point of asking a judge to revisit their custody arrangement, for his wanton disregard for their children's health.

    What was the issue, you ask?

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  • You're Doing It Wrong

    The soothing powers of turning your baby into a non-edible pig-in-a-blanket has got to be one of the best discoveries in all of the annals of human history. It's up there with the wheel and fire and Doritos, in my opinion, and has saved many a baby from being abandoned on a neighbor's doorstep because it won't stop crying. Swaddling rocks. 

    How hard can it be to wrap a baby in a blanket? It seems easy enough: find blanket, add baby, wrap. The biggest issue seems like it should be making sure the baby's head isn't covered, too.

    The parenting experts would like you to know that -- like everything else you've ever done as a parent -- you're probably doing it wrong.

     

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