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What Do We Do Now?
I’m embarrassed that my last post–first thing in the morning on the day after the election–was about food sensitivity testing. That’s not at all what I was thinking about at that time. I had written the post the weekend prior and scheduled it to run on Wednesday without connecting the dots about what day Wednesday was.
I am feeling too many things. I don’t even know how to process them all in this space. I’ve had o step away for a very long time to deal with my grief privately.Sometimes bullet points help me when I’m feeling blocked:
- I am ashamed that I had my head in the sand
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Food Sensitivity Testing
We finished doing a neurobehavioral assessment with Henry, due to some of the self-regulation struggles he had been displaying for the past couple of years. Interestingly, during the several-month process, he seemed to start to regulate more and more. I’m not sure if it’s from the counseling we’ve been going to weekly or the fact that his brain is continuing to develop as he gets older. In Montessori theory, we believe that children go through a huge developmental shift as they move from the first plane of development (0-6) to the second plane of development (6-12). As Henry gets closer and closer to 6, we (and his teacher) are seeing… Read More -
Healthy Eating for Kids
I believe that food is fuel, and I worry that Matt and I aren’t optimizing our children’s health through the food we offer them on a daily basis, specifically around breakfast. Matt handles the breakfast routine for us every.single.day (thank you, Matty!), and he usually defaults to peanut butter and jelly. I guess I wouldn’t feel so bad about peanut butter and jelly if we made sure the ingredients were all healthy. As it is, Matt is picking up these items separately (from Target) instead of including them in our weekly Whole Foods trip. I realize that’s what I’m struggling with. If we made sure the bread didn’t have any… Read More
