On Jan 10, 2006, at 12:07 am, Debby Padilla-Hudson wrote:

> You know my brother and I are both very much
> anti-alcohol.  What my mother did is say help yourself
> to alcohol, but then spent all the time talking about
> her alcoholic father and how stupid he acted.  It was
> very effective.  I probably will do the same thing
> with my son when the time comes.


I remember reading somewhere (here maybe) about someone that showed  
their children a copy of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration and  
explained that if they eat the wrong foods, this is what they'll look  
like.  I bought a copy ages ago and haven't got round to reading it,  
but just the pictures would be enough to put me off eating grains  
ever again.

If you think of all the children that go through agony with fillings  
and braces and corrective dental work (and then all the trouble later  
with wisdom teeth), feeding children on bread and sweets is bordering  
on cruelty.

I wonder what most children would choose - eating "funny food" or  
having regular trips to the dentist.  Hmmm I'm getting ideas now.   
Maybe the trick is to tell children if they ever need a dentist  
becayse they ate too many sweets he'll pull all their teeth out and  
give them dentures.  Forget what I said about being cruel :D

Ashley