When we do any kind of regularly occurring activity, like eating meals, getting dressed, and taking a bath, he refuses to take part in it. He will not eat when everyone else is eating, he will not get dressed when everyone else is getting dressed, and he will not take a bath when the girls are bathing. I mean, eventually he does, but it is like he wants to be the one who decides when it happens. At first he would just say "not yet' when I asked him to go along with everyone else. Now, though, he gets mad when we are eating and says, "No eating allowed! Stop eating!"
I mean I hate to break it to him, but he does not run the show around here. I just really do not know what to do to stop this behavior, though. It is rude, and it interrupts the girls and everyone else in the house. I think on some level it is a way to get some attention. If you don't eat, that is definitely going to get a reaction. I just loathe the idea of making him go hungry if he doesn't eat when everyone else is eating, but I equally loathe giving in to his demands and having to put everyone (and everything) else on hold so that he can follow his own timetable. Then again, he has always been so low on the weight charts for his age, and that worries me. Plus he won't sleep if he doesn't eat a good dinner, or he gets grumpy because he is hungry, etc.
Has anyone else gone through this or is anyone going through it now? What did you do or are you doing about it?
On a totally different subject, we made these homemade granola bars today, and they are awesome!
They are crazy easy to make and impossible to mess up. The kids can help make them, and mine love the part where they get to press the mixture into the pan! AND the best part (for me) is that so many commercial brand granola bars have nuts in them or are processed with nuts, which makes them a no no for my trio, but these are completely nut free!
This is the second time we have made this recipe. The first time I substituted 1/2 cup of rice cereal for 1/2 cup of oats, but otherwise made it according to the recipe. The bars were delicious, but very, very sweet and a little dense. This time I had planned on making them with half oats and half rice cereal, but being the genius that I am, I had no no rice cereal at all and hardly any oats. The kids were really excited about making them, so I had to improvise.
I only had 1 1/2 cups of oats, and I added 2 1/4 cups of Kix cereal, then I cut the brown sugar by half because the Kix are already sweet. I also used 1 cup of chocolate chips and 1 cup of raisins, instead of 2 cups of chocolate chips. I thought for sure they were going to be a disaster this time, but they weren't at all! They were very tasty! These bars were much lighter and crispier than the first batch I made. They were not too sweet, and the raisins gave them a nice chewy texture. Here they are!
A few notes: In the reviews for the recipe, several people said that they pulled the bars out of the oven halfway through baking and pressed them down in the pan again, then put them back in the oven for the remaining time. I did smash mine halfway through baking when I made this recipe the first time, but I did not do it today. I didn't like the way the chocolate chips got all smeary during the pressing last time.
However, I did find that the bars we made today were more crumbly than the first batch. I am not sure whether that crumbliness was due to the ingredient substitutions I made or my lack of smashing during the baking. Next time I make them, I will smash them again and see how much difference I think it makes. By the way, Ian would eat these granola bars anytime...as long as no one else is eating them at the same time.
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