Midnight MOMtra and Poll Results

Ok, first of all, many thanks to all of you for voicing your opinions and comments on this very relevant topic: #food battles! Clearly, this is something that most households with young children have dealt with at one time or another. If you were hoping to find the “magic bullet” solution here, I’m afraid to tell you that one simply doesn’t exist. The result of the poll as evidenced by the wonderful comments on the blog and via FB show that some of us are indeed short order cooks and bedtime snack makers. Other are more of the take it or leave it and go to bed hungry mamas. And some of us are somehwhere in between, offering up additional foods that please our little people at dinner or providing one or two consistent go-to snacks before bed. Wherever you fall on the food battle scale, the good news is this: we are all in it together! PoopieMommy strives to make you feel that not only are you not alone in dealing with these parenting issues, but we also want to acknowledge that you are doing the best you can!!! And your best, my Poopies, is good enough. So your kids don’t eat as well as you’d like? Newsflash…they are not the exception! And this I know, the food battles won’t last forever. Maybe they’re not great eaters right now, but perhaps they are great sleepers instead. #Bedtime battles are a whole different animal (we can dfeinitely address in a diff blog for sure). Maybe you are a short order cook, but your kids don’t fight all day long so you don’t have to be a referee like some of us. Or maybe they are picky eaters and bad sleepers and they fight like cats and dogs but they are loving and delicious and at the end of the day none of it really matters as long as they are happy and healthy. And, of course, all of these challenges with small children eventually pass. So…I hope you will take the time to read what your fellow Poopies have posted below and on the sidebar to the right in the comments section,  and certainly give their sound advice a try. But, please don’t ever feel like a failure if you’re struggling with this issue. It’s very typical and it won’t last forever! And your fellow Poopies are always here for you!

Also, and I apologize for the brief post this evening, the lovely mono still has me pretty exhausted and drained, but I want to leave you with a MOMtra for the weekend. A short and sweet one, but definitely worth repeating:

I pinned this on my “inspiring truths” board a few weeks ago, but its significance and depth of importance didn’t really resonate with me until I got really sick. With lots and lots of time to lie here and think these past few weeks (one of the few perks of mono) I have come to really understand the true meaning of this and have actually come to let go of some seriously long-held regrets. I hope as you read this over a few times and repeat it to yourself, you’re able to think about some of the things in your life that you might be feeling regretful about…something you said or did or didn’t do or didn’t say or didn’t’ try or tried too much…it can be anything at all that you still harbor unresolved regret over inside of you.

Once you picture what it is, take a really good look, feel it, let it run through you one last time and then kiss it goodbye. Just as the poster above says, if something good happens, then it’s wonderful. And if it’s bad, like most things we regret tend to be, think of it as experience. Change your attitude toward it. No longer see it as a regret, but as something to learn from and grow from and then to use in your arsenal of experience. Even with this damn virus from hell, I’m trying to stop regretting the time and energy lost and see this as an experience I can put toward good use in the future. No regrets. Something will come out of it no matter what. Even if it’s been a bad, awful, pain in my ass, debilitating nuisance that’s kept me from my regular life and routine, I don’t regret it. What’s the point? I got a fucked-up virus that most people get when they’re fourteen years-old. Whether I regret it or not, guess what? Still got mono! So, I must see it somehow as a valuable experience. And already I can see the benefits of thinking this way and living with no regrets: mono has given me time to start writing articles again since the only thing I can do in this damn bed besides sleep and read is bang away on this laptop! I wouldn’t have taken the time to start writing articles again if I weren’t stuck in bed all the time. Bad to get mono? Yes. But an experience nonetheless and one that I refuse to waste even more precious energy regretting.

So, my lovely Poopies, here’s hoping you can wash away some regrets of your own with the MOMtra and start viewing them as experiences to be valued. It’s a wonderful way to walk through life and I promise you won’t REGRET thinking this way!!! : )

Also, here’s my annoying social media plugs: please, please sign up to the follow the blog if you haven’t already and if you’re a tweeter, please follow me there too as PoopieMommy @MeredithJohns1. Additionally, I’m really trying to get the FB community going so please go to the PoopieMommy page and “like” me. It just takes a second and is most appreciated. And of course, I am always grateful for votes and ratings on www.topmommyblogs.com Finally, since the PoopiePoll was about food battles this week, I’ve included the link below to my Examiner article with helpful tips to get your kids to try some new, healthier foods. I’ve got a lot of awesome parenting articles coming your way, so please subscribe to my content on Examiner so you won’t miss any of them in the future!

I hope you have a phenomenal weekend, Poopie Loves! I adore each and every one of you and I am one lucky mama to have such a supportive blog community forming! PoopieMommy wouldn’t exist without all of you! xxoo.  http://www.examiner.com/parenting-in-st-louis/tips-for-getting-your-kids-to-try-healthier-foods-1

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Kara Fehlig SwoffordLet me know if you get the answer to this… I’m really struggling with this with my stubborn toddler