Mothers, Children and Junk Food
That mothers know best when it comes to what food is best for their children may hold true in theory, but in practice it seems many mothers struggle to make this a reality. Daily Mail's Sandra Parsons asks why so many mothers are made to feel so guilty over junk food. Well, society expects mothers to be the “experts”. Heaven knows where this expertise is supposed to come from. Perhaps from the fact that mothers gave birth to the children and in the process became experts overnight. The assumption leaves mothers with a lot of pressure to catch up with society’s expectations.
Our little ones do not make it simpler either, they have become food experts in their own right with a sharp sense of taste for everything that food gurus label as “junk". The pressured mum faces this dilemma on a daily basis; to give the child junk food so that s/he has something in the stomach or battling it out with a bowl of the beige oats porridge. Most of us find ourselves taking the easy way out by giving them what they are screaming for and succumbing to, “let there be peace and quiet in the house and food in the toddler’s stomach.”
In retrospect, and if I were 
given a chance to start all over again, the trick would be never to introduce the junk foods, sweets and all the niceties right from the start, but then again you would need to be living on an island void of all social interaction, for where there is interaction habits intermingle including (bad) eating habits. It appears this junk food age is society’s own making and mothers can not tackle it alone.
www.dailymail.co.uk, 2/9/2011
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