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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  I only have a baby, so as of now he neither watches TV nor eats McD's (or solid food of any kind).  We have a TV without cable, and I watch several hours of TV a week on Hulu or Netflix (most of the time I prefer to wait for the DVD and avoid commercials, personally).

That being said, I find it odd that people are defending TV and fast food like it's the bald eagle or the Statue of Liberty or something.   (I also find it odd that some people on here always become so defensive whenever someone says they do anything differently in their household, so maybe it's just an extension of that.)  I think it's especially spurious to claim that kids are going to hate their parents for depriving them of crappy food.  My family ate out nearly every night when I was in high school, and mostly fast food because that was what we could afford 7 days a week.  I grew to hate it: my parents were obese, and the people working in all the fast food places in town recognized us.  I wished we were like normal families eating at home, honestly, and I certainly didn't think that other kids not eating like this were deprived.  And yes, I know most people on here are talking about a few times a month: I'm responding more to the attacks than to the actual frequency that people are talking about.  I'm sure that age has a lot to do with it, as my brother who was in elementary school at the time is a total fast food addict and also dangerously obese; he spent his childhood watching TV constantly, too (we didn't have one when I was young) and now struggles with it and compulsive video gaming as an adult.

I have never seen anyone have health problems from NOT watching TV or eating fast food, but I know lots of examples of the opposite.  So, if my child wants to find out if he is the type of person who can watch TV for hours on end without getting depressed or crabby and/or eat fast food regularly without getting fat, he is going to have to figure that out on his own as an adult: I am not going to be running that experiment on him as a child.[/quote]

THIS! I totally agree. I also think people are really jumping from topic to topic - the alcohol and binge drinking example were weird. Just because we don't eat fast food doesn't mean I don't take a moderate approach around alcohol. We do, and I will approach it just as my parents did. And I am not some crazy food regulator. We just are not in the habit of eating fast food. We do have treats, but I don't think McDonal's is a treat. Krispy Kreme is a treat to me. Not McDonald's. My main concern is just teaching my children that food does not always come perfectly prepped from you, out of a box. I just want to do what my folks did and emphasize prepared meals at home. It's not really extreme. [/quote]

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