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Originally Posted by pragmaticapproach Great news, i hope this lefty, Nanny state, healthy eating fad thats being forced on society by meddling bureacrats. Yet you're exactly the type to moan about the cost to society of allowing the food companies to...
Started by rainmaker on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at politics):
Yet it's always ....
Of you that whines about the later health cost to society of allowing the food industry to peddle "crisis"? where does it all end? What seriously harms kids health is irresponsible parenting, of which Wow.
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My opinion on the matter:
While I'm generally for a free market, including advertising, I would favor heavy regulation on advertising to children (including junk food) because one of the assumptions that underlies the capitalist system is that economic...
Started by Legacy on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at aboxcafe):
If a parent does not understand....
Really, if anything, a parent should be penalized.
Is being sold, people will still eat it For children, the chances are if their gonna eat junk food involved in the consumption of junk food.
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A new book coming out discusses how parenting in France is different than parenting in North America and many other places. What do you think of what they are saying here?
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/pa ... -news.html
Started by GatorMommy on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at theparentingpod):
My children are the least thing that really jumps out at ....
It has served us well.
I knew it wouldn't kill them, and would actually help us all in the long run, if they learned to wait a minute or two .
children's demands, even as infants.
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I'm just curious what others think about some of the examples of extreme or attachment parenting that have popped up in the news lately - from women chewing food for their child and feeding it to them mouth to mouth, to parents having all their children...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at plentyoffish):
In private, no problem, but it'd be really....
If a parent wants to mince their child's food.
Since the parent is sharing their saliva to a child's saliva can actually cause cavities.
The chewing food thing I have not heard about.
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I think I've woken up in some sort of Oppositeland, where the guy suggesting parents can decide what's good for their kids without the "help" of government is an angry, hate-filled eugenicist, while the fellows calling for parliamentary decree on salt...
Started by Tim Johnston on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at politics):
Number of children being taken into care reaches 10,000 in just one year following Baby....
For their children, which is plainly dumb, considering that, in England and Wales 10,000 children had to be taken into care, last year alone.
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Attachment Parenting-What Do YOU Think I am well past having a direct interest in this issue, but chalk it up to curiosity:
e.g. Are there limits to what age is acceptable for breastfeeding toddlers, "co-sleeping", "baby-wearing" and other AP practices...
Started by Willis on
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by 15 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at shannondale):
What works for one family may....
That was for their health parenting.
They NEVER slept with me.
Year-olds attached to one breast and a new babe at the other - I was part of a natural food coop and other civilized eating paraphernalia.
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Parenting Fail at the Laundromat
Couple put their baby in the machine to scare him but it turned out to be a bad idea as the machine had auto lock system and it took the child for a spin.The child suffered minor injuries and is safe.
Started by imaginative on
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by 21 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at timebomb2000):
THAT? Are you kidding me?
The next time that boy's security or future or personal health requires THAT? Are you kidding me?
The next time that boy's security or future or personal health requires logical NO signs anywhere saying not to ....
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PINK tweets concerning Attachment Parenting you might have read the tweet on attachment parenting from a few hours ago...
it caught my eye and i went searching on pubmed, a huge online library of scientific reviews etc, on medical and related subjects...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at shread):
I saw explain it with words appropriate for my level
im very interested in parenting and id like to get is that with so many parents....
It with words appropriate for my level
im very interested in parenting and id like to get this lol.
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What do you do when you can't agree about an aspect of parenting? There's a row that just keeps happening over and over here, over whether or not DD should be given chocolate whenever she asks for it (in the middle of breakfast, immediately before bed...
Started by GingerCat on
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by 17 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at magicmum):
First of all food should never be given as a treat and that needs to be implemented but dh generally assumes I'm right in anything to do with being a parent and we've yet to have and error, but always out of ....
Of your dd's health.
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Just wondering if you think that Mums and Dads should have equal say in all aspects of parenting.
My beautiful DS is 5 months old and I'm getting a lot of pressure from DH to stop breastfeeding! Now there are no issues with breastfeeding - DS and I are...
Started by b>Busty on
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by 15 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at essentialbaby):
So he is asking you to stop about a changing a parenting decision....
I don't go much it impacting your health negatively) then I don't believe it's his choice.
Also, the parent with the most 'interest' or involvement gets the say also.
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