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Children’s Stories

Non-Fiction

 We're Not the Brady Bunch Anymore

Fiction

(Works in progress)

As Published in Manitou Magazine 

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Gripe of the Week

The Current week

Children and Food

What’s wrong with children today? Especially when it comes to food. The only foods they want to eat are cereal, Chicken Nuggets, and pizza. I have tried, since birth, to feed my children good, wholesome, home cooked meals. I’m even a good cook. Still, my children insist that they would rather have McD’s.

              On Sunday I thought, “I’m up early. Maybe we can have a nice family brunch.” So I got out the pancake mix and started making pancakes. I washed some fresh fruit to make salad. I started the tea to brew. One by one the children appeared in the kitchen, rubbing sleepy dirt out of their eyes. The first thing out of their mouths wasn’t “Good morning mother,” or even “What’s for breakfast?” It was, “Can I have a bowl of cereal?”

            “No,” I responded, “I’m making pancakes.”

 By the third child it was this pleading voice, “Please let us have cereal. We would much rather have cereal than pancakes and you don’t have to make it.”

  “No," I yelled, "We are going to sit down at the table as a family and have a nice family breakfast!” I realized it wasn’t really that they didn’t like pancakes; it’s that it meant sitting at the table, and not wolfing down a bowl of cereal in front of the TV. It meant they couldn’t just run off to play outside. It meant they had to tear themselves away from Internet chatting.

Dinner around here isn’t much different. Is it really that Chicken Nuggets taste better than home made baked chicken? No, it’s the fun of going to McD’s. Why would you want to sit down at the family table and have a nice roast and mashed potatoes when you can have a hamburger and French fires? It’s the play park and the toy in every meal. It’s much better than that boring old dining room table any day. We try to make dinners in our house fun. We have even had food fights. There is still the stain on the wall from mashed potatoes. It just doesn’t compete with McD’s.

Given a choice they would eat pizza every night for dinner. I like pizza occasionally, but not every night. Wouldn’t you rather have a steak, once in a while? No, not my kids. The only way they eat steak is if it is on a pizza. Again, it’s being able to scarf it down and go on with the fast-paced video game. What ever happened to family togetherness?

We live in a hot, fast, to-go world and home cooking just doesn’t fit in anymore. There just isn’t any sitting at the table discussing what’s up in our world, no more family bonding.  Could it be that McD’s really does taste better than my pork chops and homemade apple sauce?

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Week January 22-28 Sunday Driver Week January 29- Febuary 4 Security Seals

Week Febuary 5-11 The Waltons Revisited   Week Febuary 12-19 The Hospital

Week Febuary 20-26 Smokers  Week Feburary 27-March 4 Nudity in the Grocery Store