The age between 2 and 4 is known in France as the phase d' opposition and parents are well briefed on the subject from experts and everyone around them. The children are going to say no to assert their individuality and show they are separate from their parents. So the "no" phase or as it [...]
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Day 2 – Changing My Children’s Eating Habits
They say that food is one of life's great pleasures and we certainly (as a collective Western Culture) obsess over it enough. For some it's a source of guilt, choice, assertion of individual tastes and preferences, a chance to get together, frustration, obsession and many more adjectives and verbs I could use. The thing I [...]
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Day 1 – Changing My Children’s Eating Habits
So theory and thought-provoking books are great. It's all well and good to say that French children eat everything (you can read yesterday's post here) but how do we put it into practice with our own children? Yesterday was Day 1 of Operation Three Meals a Day. My first ditch attempt at slowing down the rate [...]
