Two questions

[Sket's Wife]

Any thoughts on children's food allergies?

[lynn]

We have explained to our children our reasons for biblical standards that please the Lord beginning with the first time they asked. (However young)When they leave our home, their relationship with Him will be based on their own choices. We won't fear a kind of backlash because of forbidden things. What they do as adults is entirely on them. None of our relatives are living for God, but we clearly explain to our children what we will permit and will not permit. They seem to feel secure in the fact that we stand behind our convictions unapologetically. We will answer to the Lord alone. The fact that it is our LOVE for Him that drives us to make Him smile has always been the focus. We willingly and happily aim to please Him and our kids have followed suit. If something disgust my God, I abhor it (walk far around it) myself. This is not just a matter of wisdom and fences. I am devoted from the heart. It isn't what do I "have" to do for God, but what do I "get" to do for Him. :) I don't tip toe around whether or not my kids will feel deprived. (There are so very many wholesome things to occupy our time!)There will come a day that they can choose for themselves, but I will feed them honey (not filth) that they might learn to choose the good, and reject the bad.

[ddc101]

Sister Bousquet I would not worry too much over the three year old.I have two daughters and they both went through it.Children like shiney things.They love to play dress up.When she is older she will follow you.She is watching you and listening to every word you say.She is also listening to you pray.Take her with you to the prayer room and make it special...like you get to come in here because you are getting to be a grown up girl now.She will feel special and begin to embrace prayer.This will set her heart in the right direction and convictions that she develops may exceed your own.lv sis.c

[Hadassah]

Sister, I too, have raised daughters, who are now in their teens. Both are filled with the Holy Ghost and living for God though my oldest-especially went through what you're talking about. Even sometimes in their early teens they get to looking around and making comparisons-thinking they're not pretty and all of the adolescent "feelings" begin to rise up! However, I agree wholeheartedly, that if we teach and encourage our children to LOVE the Lord, and live His Word diligently in our home, then when they are older they really will not depart from the Truth. I have made it a practice to talk to my girls about everything and to show them how the Word speaks to every situation we face in life. Sis. Reider has some wonderful books for children on hair, makeup, jewellery etc. that you might want to consider purchasing for your daughter when she gets just a little older. She uses her own daughters as characters in the books, and I can tell you that it really stuck with my daughter, Hannah. Hope this helps!



#1 So...Does anyone have any thoughts about children's food allergies these days? I am so concerned because there are so many kids with allergies to milk, peanuts, eggs, wheat, etc. My 13 month old son is one of them. He is ALLERGIC to milk and eggs. I realized the milk allergy because of some formula I tried on him once and then some stage 2 baby food that had whole milk and cheese in it. He broke out in hives, his face swelled up, his eyes swelled almost shut, and he got black and blue eyes! I never tried eggs on him, but when I took him for the skin test he had about a 3x's worse skin reaction to the egg than the milk.
What is going on with this? I know when my parents were kids there was no ban on peanut butter in their schools because there were kids that were fatally allergic to it!

#2 Has anyone had any experience with a daughter that is just so interested in the things you would prefer her not to be. My 3 YEAR OLD is so perceptive!!! She is such a girlie girl. My husband and I are the only one's who are living for God (except for his dad/stepmom), however, I am very close to my family....soooo there are lots of questions from my daughter. Much of the time its not even questions, just things like "this is my make-up, this stuff is my jewelry etc." She pretends with anything. She takes her hair things and puts them on as jewelry! I am at a loss. Sometimes I feel if I even acknowledge it, it will just make her want to do it more...but then if I don't make her realize that we don't do that she'll never learn. She doesn't seem to care that I don't wear makeup or jewelry, and I am so afraid that soon it will be hair, pants etc. She even notices that Cinderella has pink lips and I thought Cinderella was the most modest /less worldly princess! But Hollywood is Hollywood I know. I think my first step would be to go to Focus on the Family and slowly change over her movie collection. Just because it's cartoons/animation I still need to be very discerning about what it is she's watching.

Any thoughts?
Sis. Bousquet

[Melody]

#1 So...Does anyone have any thoughts about children's food allergies these days? I am so concerned because there are so many kids with allergies to milk, peanuts, eggs, wheat, etc. My 13 month old son is one of them. He is ALLERGIC to milk and eggs. I realized the milk allergy because of some formula I tried on him once and then some stage 2 baby food that had whole milk and cheese in it. He broke out in hives, his face swelled up, his eyes swelled almost shut, and he got black and blue eyes! I never tried eggs on him, but when I took him for the skin test he had about a 3x's worse skin reaction to the egg than the milk.
What is going on with this? I know when my parents were kids there was no ban on peanut butter in their schools because there were kids that were fatally allergic to it!

Sis. Bousquet

If you really knew how many antibiotics, chemicals, hormones etc.. were part of your food supply you would understand.

[lynn]

I highly advocate breastfeeding and organically home-grown and home-preserved whole foods. A couple of excellent resources are La Leche League International, and Whole Foods For the Whole Family. The "Love To Learn" homeschoolers' catalog/website sells affiliated materials.

[Melody]

I highly advocate breastfeeding and organically home-grown and home-preserved whole foods. A couple of excellent resources are La Leche League International, and Whole Foods For the Whole Family. The "Love To Learn" homeschoolers' catalog/website sells affiliated materials.


Me too. My doctor would not let me give my son his first cereal until he was 6 months old. My husband had so many allergies that the Doctor said he was taking no chances and that the best protection was breast-feeding only.

[Sket's Wife]

Thanks Melody and Lynn,
I have been breastfeeding my son for 13 months now. He never took to a bottle or pacifier. I was just suprised about the allergy like so many parents are now, because there was no history in mine or my husbands families.

[Deonna]

I'm baffled too about the allergy thing. My oldest was allergic to tootsie rolls, sweettarts, sprees, etc. We just watched her carefully when she ate and usually almost immediatly she would develop red splotches on her face so we'd take the food away from her.
It wasn't anything drastic like milk, eggs, or peanut butter (although I have the allergy to milk and eggs).

We rarely ever gave our kids meds. I'm trying to remember if she ever had antibiotics before 2 years...if she did, I don't remember because it had to be a real necessity before we would which was rare.


Concerning the "girlie" things...
I think the majority of girls do go through that especially if they're exposed through toys, movies, relatives, friends, etc to it.
We just explained to our children from an early age what the Bible says. They may not get it at first but you just keep explaining.


Hope this helps.

[ddc101]

Wow Sister Lynn are we twins or what? I also used La Leche Leagues stuff.The book the womanly art of breastfeeding is one awesome book and will truly help moms be successful.
Have you ever gotten a copy of that book on Love to Learn about the condition of food in the world we live in? My friend bought it and loves it and in discussing it I decided to order from them again.I got their information at a homeschool seminar.
I love natural and whole foods.One really good site for whole grains is
www.bobsredmill.com , they have the best ten grain cereal on the market.I love it.lv sis.c

[lynn]

I was very engrossed by the book from Love To Learn about dental health; the one that shows all the natives with healthy diets. Can't remember the name! Are you also one who leans more towards the "herbs of the field" over synthetic medications?

Both of our sons weaned themselves by 22 months. We practice "attatchment parenting" , including sling wearing, welcome bedding, nursing, child-led potty training, etc.(not because we heard about it and decided to try it, but because we just did it naturally and later discovered that there was a name for it!) Lol. It has been an immeasurable blessing.