Originally Posted by agent87
Here's the way I see it though. The best way to avoid having your children eats lots of junk is to not have junk around in the first place. It's not like a 13yo is going to go drive to the market and buy some cookies with their nonexistant paycheck. The food that is available should be healthier alternatives like veggies, fruit, oatmeal, grains, lean meats, and other foods that aren't highly processed. No soda, candy, or questionable snack foods. What kinds of foods are usually at your parents' home? Do they buy cookies, crackers, sugary cereals, etc?
I'm not really around to see what's in the house or what she's eating, but generally speaking my parents don't keep a lot of junk food around. It's not so much eating crap as eating craploads of things which aren't necessarily unhealthy. Anything will make you eat enough of it.
Also it seems like whenever I go home they are ordering carryout dinner all the freaking time, as if nobody feels like cooking any more. I know when I was around they used to cook a lot more meals. Maybe my mom just got sick of it.
Originally Posted by /^Blackmagik^\
why so much drama about the home life lately mike?
Unfortunately, it's not "lately." My family would be good fodder for a sitcom, with me cast as the slightly off-kilter but prevailingly sane member of the family who is surrounded by a bunch of crazies.