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At 4 y.o. they aren't just picking behavior from their kindergarten-mates, they're literally sharing food at every possible opportunity.

In this environment, awareness of varieties of snacks and kid TV shows both spread faster than infectious diseases.

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Welcome my son

Welcome to the machine

What did you dream?

We told you what to dream

As a parent one of the worst things you get to witness is your kids being assimilated into the machine. Nobody wants it. Many try to fight it. All will lose. We've all been assimilated into the machine to some extent.

My hope is that when my kiddo starts going to school that we can maintain eating relatively healthy stuff at our house by acknowledging that "junk" food (we're going to try to avoid that term so we don't assign morality to food) exists, and we can absolutely eat it, but that different foods make us feel differently, and eating too much of that kind of food can make you feel sick. I just hope it works.

We called it "party food": soda, chips, candy, cakes, etc. That's not regular food. You consume that at parties and even then don't eat too much - you'll get sick. My kids are adults now and they regulate themselves pretty well.

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