I’m grateful that my children do not have allergies that
bring spring time dread, or make me worry that if they eat the wrong thing they
will end up with a swollen shut throat. All the same witnessing my four-year-old
rage like he just turned into the Hulk and then cower and whimper on the floor
because he is having a reaction to some processed something he ate, feels
pretty freaking horrible.
We don’t feed our kids dye, high fructose corn syrup, corn
syrup, modified corn starch, BHA, BTA, synthetic hormones or potassium bromate,
AT ALL. All of our dairy products that we eat are organic. Everything else is:
if it has an ingredients list, then can I pronounce all of the ingredients? If
I can’t chances are it’s a preservative/hormone and I don’t want to risk it.
It’s a risk because if it is a processed refined yuck ingredient our children
react like they were just given a Jeffery and bust out in eczema.
AND IF ONE MORE “WELL MEANING” PERSON GIVES MY KIDS ONE OF
THESE INGEDIENTS I AM GOING TO FLIP MY SHIT ON THEM.
This weekend Theo, Maxx and I spent sometime with some
relatives. These relatives have been one of the few people that think that by
not allowing the boys to have things like Gatorade, Lunchables, canned meat
(let me just go vomit real quick), or excessive amounts of sugar they are
missing out in their childhood. It has been a struggle from when I started this
(what they call restrictive but I call normal) diet with the boys. Regardless
they are family that we still love and want in our lives.
Theo ended up spending the day with them while Maxx and I
headed back home. When he got back home to us that evening Theo was noticeably
more cranky and tired than normal. I soon found out why when he asked one of
the relatives for his drink and they whipped out the sugary, dyed, pretend
juice with a smile.
I wasn’t smiling.
I knew that the drink alone was enough to give Theo horrible
nightmares and wet the bed. And that if they had gone against my wishes and
already let him drink almost all of that pretend juice then I know that they
had probably gone against all of my wishes and fed him some horrible fast food kid
meal. Meaning that I would be dealing with a kid that would periodically be
acting like he smoked a Jeffery for the next weekish.
Periodical tantrums, screaming, punching, throwing, crying,
whimpering, and the inability to communicate. This is what I have to look
forward too. It is enough to make me want to sell my children.
But what is horrible is I know that it makes my kids feel
like they have been ran over. Mentally and physically. Those tantrums are not out of acting out or attention, they are from the confusing feeling they have when their brain cannot process the emotional and
physical response that they want to happen. The feeling of being completely out
of control, and unable to process why your body and mind are not on the same
page is what my boys are feeling. Extreme frustration.
The worst part is the fact that other than feeding them real
food with continuing to comfort and help work through out bursts I cannot do
anything. And the people that fed them the crap that is wreaking havoc on their
body are nowhere to be seen. This is why they simply cannot believe that it
could be the food that THEY ate all their lives and then fed THEIR children too
that could be making Theo and Maxx act out. Because they are never around to
witness the reactions. Because in their minds “boys will be boys” and that’s
all there is to it.
I know this will pass and because these toxic foods are rare in their lives they are strong. Soon my boy’s bodies will heal.
But what more can I do to make others understand that it is not okay to give my
kids those things?
Until I do, I will keep in mind that the choices that we have
made for our children are the right ones for them. Would it be easier to allow the boys to eat whatever they wanted whenever they wanted. Yes, but sometimes in life easy and right are not the same thing.
Dan<3
Dan<3
