Loved the Joe Crummey show and the focus on the guy who stated that parents were unable to say no to kids. While I agree in principle that "happy meals" could be a little healthier, I don't blame fast food businesses for bad decision making. People can get just as heavy from eating junk food at home, too much pasta at home, or even too many veggie-burgers! Short of calorie rationing, we can't force parents to make good choices for their kids or themselves. This is just a feel good thing for the regulation happy. We can't solve the problem, or blame the people who may vote for us, so we'll blame "greedy" businesses. Problem solved?
Nope. And for the record, I took my kids to a MacDonald's precisely once. It was after a swim meet and because the other mom wanted to go and I was too wussy to belittle the choice of food. My kids still don't eat fast food and they are 29 and 27years old. They were "deprived" of fast food, cable television, and sleazy pop music.
They lived. Yes, they had a few moments of miffed behavior about not getting this crap especially when their friends had it, but only a few moments.
And let's be honest here. The fast food joints sell this stuff because there is a demand for it. If there was no demand, it would vanish. If there was a demand for "carrot mcnuggets" someone would provide the little toys from China to go with it, but there is no demand. Simple economics here, people.
Parents, you can get past the whines, by sticking to your principles a few times, when whining is not rewarded it won't be repeated. Yep, Nancy was right "just say no".
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