skin
and bones
during dinner the other night, i
baked a whole chicken...i know exemplary for a mid-week night meal but i had the time. one of the neighborhood kids was playing with
my girls when i called them in to eat dinner.
My kids told me the girl was going
to wait outside for them to eat then come back to play. so being me of course i asked the child if
she wanted to have some dinner with us......protocol is usually to tell the
child to go home and ask their parents first, but i know for a fact this
particular kid eats very late at night and she's not sought after much by her
parents....so with my take on their family dynamic i didn't have a problem
feeding her and the parents finding out until later.....
but me feeding the wandering
children in my neighborhood is not what i'm blogging about here is the
issue....
the 6 year old girl said what she
had heard from another child while eating....and by the way this kid was
starving....but we'll leave it at they eat later in the evening so maybe that
was why....
she mentioned another kid's name in
the neighborhood and then told us that if the mom eats chicken skin, she'll get
fat....
awesome......really.........so my
mind exploded......and i had managed to talk with my 10 year old after and my 4
year old didn't seem to be concerned..at all i still have to bring it up to my
six year old....
i picture those kids....the ones
with the mom 'who will get fat if she eats chicken skin' imagining their
mother placing a piece of chicken skin in her mouth...just one piece and instantly
turning fat.......who really knows how kids think...but this may be spot
on.....
the woman in question is and has
always been very petite...but now she is on some high strung exercise
regiment......and chicken skin will make her fat apparently......
dear god is this what people are
still teaching their kids.........how about moderation.....
eat in moderation...exercise in
moderation.....
i won't even mention the other
neighbor who gained weight to have stomach surgery or whatever she did to drop
pounds...
i don't know if any of this is making
much sense.....but if you or anyone you know get in your car to go work out,
instead of walking a bit more or being more mindful of what you put into your
mouth....well...maybe i'm talking to you or rather about you.......
Think about what you are teaching
your daughters about how they interpret their body and appetite....
my husband got the best of the
chicken skin, because i do peel it off for the little ones, because
'eeeeewwww, what's that' (salt,
pepper and parsley flakes)..my ten year old tried a piece of his and yummo.....i
settled for some on the leg.....i usually get the leg now a days....but that's
how it goes with 5 of us and 4 of us being picky eaters...
so that sums up the chicken skin
story........maybe i'll go have a snack...or take a walk...but i most certainly
will not be putting on some weird socks and chiseling myself into Adonis......good
luck with that...and by the way you have a lot of fat in your brain....i'm
guessing since it's not filled with intelligence!
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