I live in my own generation gap with oldest and youngest child 19 years apart in age. I was looking up the latest on helping kids with diarrhea and other such loveliness and my head could have hit the table. When Anna was the wee one, we were told to not give them milk products and use the B.R.A.T. diet. Hmmm.....well, now they are saying the B.R.A.T. diet actually makes them feel worse and that milk products do not have to be withheld. Do you know what this does to the generations????? I suppose with a nineteen year gap I will more easily be able to smile and wave when grandchildren come along as I will take no offense at the latest and greatest child rearing methods. I've seen it all and seen it all again as it cycles around.
I remember the audacity of my mother and mother-in-law suggesting I let my child cry it out while I kept my babies near and dear and wondered if my first child was permanently damaged by my doing this to her around six weeks of age. Now there are definitely two camps in the sleep in or sleep separately camp. Shouldn't the new advice be, 'do whatever doesn't make you have a nervous break down honey, I don't really care?'
It just seems that Americans goal is to make each other crazy with all the different ways they SHOULD be doing things. What???? I am sure the phrase, "none of your business" did not pick up speed till the neighborhood fence was bypassed by the telephone operator. Party lines......yep, they were a party. In America, your business seems to be everyone's business if you let it be that way.
I admit I was influenced quickly by the article suggesting I not withhold the milk products seeing as the two year old could only keep begging for milk. I admit I might get peeved if he throws up all over the place in five minutes, but the logical truth of the article was something about how you can give them starvation diarrhea if they do not get sufficient nutrients. We shall see......literally......if I love this advice I hope not to see too much.
Nap time.......
I think the heat is causing a lot of stomach problems right now. Let us know what happens with the milk. Sometimes it's easier to ask, "What sounds good to you?" Hope your little one improves.
ReplyDeleteThree out of four of the sick kids are better now. The five year old got it today and feels that today was the worst day ever. I think you are right about the heat. And.....I think the only truth in the milk is that if there are no other choices that milk is better than nothing. Milk had the same result as it did twenty years ago......
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