When I said I would be less OC about Jianna’s food, I didn’t expect that I would do it soo soon and do it drastically, at that. Because Jianna eats so well whatever I feed her (even veggies),  I have resolved to let her eat more freely of food that she chooses. So today when JM and I had burgers and french fries for lunch and she decided she wanted to eat only our fries and none of her chicken strips, I let her. But in my mind, I cursed french fries, and to JM I said, “French Fries are evil.”

After lunch, JM mentioned wanting to eat ice cream. Since Jianna was starting to act up, I told her she could have ice cream if she stopped running away from us. Obviously, this was bad judgment and bad parenting on my part, bribing as we all know being a big no-no in disciplining kids. But she was sooo happy with the ice cream, she kept chanting “ice cream” while she ate, that I decided to let it pass for that moment.

Gosh, two junk foods in an afternoon, I thought, I am going to have to make up for that in the coming week.