How did it go? I’m sure you’ll be wondering from my previous post, how my 5 year old stuck out his ‘fasting’. With nothing but junk food for tea and dinner, he steadfastly refused to eat anything and went to bed, without anything in his tummy.
The next morning, when he woke up, he came bouncing like a happy bunny, greeting me quite happily. I thought warily, this is my son? He declared to me solemnly that he won’t be eating junk food anymore. I just nodded my head, knowing full well that this would be a very hard promise to keep. One that I can’t even keep.
Well, he wasn’t affected by the lack of food, whatsoever. Bear in mind, this is a scally-wag of a boy, a skinny-minny. He wasn’t ravenous. He ate his breakfast in his fashionably slow manner.
Instead, what happened was that he went through a detoxifying process. Yup. My dear lil boy had a really really really big poo. Ok.. many poos. All big.
I’m thinking to myself now.. maybe he needs this. This minus-one meal, once in a while, to cleanse his toxic body. I can almost hear child-support staff breaking down my door now. Heh.
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Wow, it worked! It was a pretty extreme step, but sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures, aye? I don’t think he’ll be sticking to the “no junk food for the rest of my life” promise either
but at least he got the message.
no lar, no dinner only mah, not like totally no food at all. Child support won’t come to you for that. But I think, you may be right, he needs this minus-one meal. I am surprised u said he’s skinny cos he doesn’t look skinny at all to me.
So it worked! My 10 yr old would go to bed hungry and would stubbornly refuse to give in if I took her along the harsh approach. Mine “sek yuen mm sek ngang”. Fortunately, so far, she wouldn’t dare to come home with a full lunchbox. If she does, she would declare when she saw me open it, yes momma, I will eat it now.