... of being the adult in teh relationship is being able to choose what you do and have it be DIFFERENT than what the child does.
You are an adult. You are completely free to choose to have fudge for all your meals for the next $arbitrary_time_period if you care to. That is completely orthogonal to what your child can/should/needs for lunch.
Now, I'm emphatically NOT addressing the sensibility or usefulness of the all-fudge-all-the-time diet. Just the potential.
(signed) - another adult in the relationship who IS, in fact, allowed to have a drink with both sugar AND caffeine in it whenever she wants.
(but rarely does, cause she doesn't do sugar of any sort much)
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One of the benefits...
Date: 2007-10-01 02:24 pm (UTC)... of being the adult in teh relationship is being able to choose what you do and have it be DIFFERENT than what the child does.
You are an adult. You are completely free to choose to have fudge for all your meals for the next $arbitrary_time_period if you care to. That is completely orthogonal to what your child can/should/needs for lunch.
Now, I'm emphatically NOT addressing the sensibility or usefulness of the all-fudge-all-the-time diet. Just the potential.
(signed)
- another adult in the relationship
who IS, in fact, allowed to have a drink with both sugar AND caffeine in it
whenever she wants.
(but rarely does, cause she doesn't do sugar of any sort much)