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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Commercialism

Given the amount of work that we have put into getting rid of clutter, we have made a commitment to avoid buying things in bulk until after we move. For many things, this isn't a tough resolution to keep. For example, there isn't much reason for us to stock up on breakfast products. My older son (OS) is just not into breakfast. How could he possibly be related to me? I used to be philisophical with the aid of the psalm which reads that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Our problem is that we can't lead him to water or better yet the breakfast table. On mornings that we can get him to at least try breakfast, he tends to surprise himself with how hungry he actually is. On mornings when he doesn't eat breakfast, everyone including his teachers can tell. And yes I've even tried having him play outside before breakfast in the morning.

There are no judgments in the Giraffe household on what others feed their kids for breakfast. After first (otherwise known as in the time before I was parent) believing that my children would always eat a healthy, well-balanced breakfast, I now just settle for breakfast. Hence the frozen chicken nuggets OS had for breakfast the other day or the frequent PB&J breakfast sandwiches. Actually, neither of those options even causes me to wince; they're both high in protein. Not surprisingly, OS has his best days when he eats a breakfast high in protein.

This evening when I was at the grocery store there was a deal where if you bought two boxes of Kellog's cereal, you could get a character bowl for free. There were a variety to choose from, and I just knew that those bowls were the exact type of thing my kids would like. I hope they may even be appealing enough to interest them in eating the contents of the bowls. So I did the reseasonable thing and bought four boxes of cereal, even though I wasn't planning on buying any. Hey, I couldn't get a bowl for OS without buying one for my younger son as well, and if they are four times as interested in eating cereal from those bowls, I can put the cereal to good use.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: There are times to buy in bulk and give in to commercialism.

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