I loved Harold and just loved being able to
be out of the classroom with what I thought at the time was an Uber cool
miniature giraffe, only to find out in high school it was all a lie and Harold
was nothing but a puppet.
Learning quite a few things from Harold and the Life Ed van back in my P.S days there’s one that taught me a valuable lesson and it was the importance of the Food Pyramid.
Well wasn’t I in for a shock wake-up call
yesterday when I went to the supermarket with Miss H who is 9 checking the
labels on everything she picked up to put in the trolley.
I asked her what she was doing and she
responded with “Harold told us we had to do this to make sure what we were
putting in our body is good”.
My world came closing in around me, first off who was this Harold jerk influencing what my daughter can and can’t eat.
Second of all since when should a 9 year old
be counting up the digits on the back of a container or packet?
Then I dug a little further, the plot
thickened… my primary school hero was to blame for this? Surely not… But
surely’s turned into definitely’s and HE WAS to blame!
I get it, times change and this generation of
kids weren’t brought up like us, or the ones before us. But this is taking it
too far.. Isn’t this where eating disorders start and they become so
self-conscious of themselves and want to live up to societies expectations of
healthy and looking like the stereotypical thin structures? Nope, not my kids I
am afraid.
Being a teen myself with an eating disorder-
anorexia- thanks to modelling and that sinister world, I am very overprotective
with my kids and their eating habits. I want them to eat as much as they like
if it is the good stuff and not have to think twice about it.
We are all for healthy eating in this
household but kids are only kids once and we’re always wishing we could go back
in time and be little again without a worry in the world. Why are we constantly
looking to add worry to our kid’s lives? I am all for letting them live, if
they want a treat or sweet it is a sometimes thing and they know that. They
don’t have to look at a packets contents and calories to be told that either.
I am sure you taught my daughter some
valuable lesson’s that day and I know she had an overall amazing experience,
but is it a little abnormal to have my 9 year old already checking labels, she
has a whole lifetime of doing that when she’s older if she chooses.
Am I alone on this? Or should I be “getting
with the times”? Or do ya’ll other Mum’s and Dad’s feel me?
VENT OVER :)
VENT OVER :)
