My New Love

Okay, you would normally think that something titled my new love would be me talking about a secret crush or something human. But no, my new love is oatmeal. Not for me though, but for my youngest child, Collin. For the past week I have seriously questioned his parenthood and thought that perhaps satan had a hand in his making. His attitude and talking back was becoming more than I could bare. What was I doing wrong? I had stopped spanking and started time outs, nothing was working. Well, I think I figured it out. Last week I let him pick out his own cereal. Of course he picked out something with a lot of color and packed full of sugar. The cereal was on sale and said whole grain on the cover. Now that I think about it, how can anything that's main colors are blue, yellow, and red, be made of whole grain?? It can't! So, there's Collin loving his cereal, eating two bowls a day. You see once he eats breakfast we are out the door doing many things and don't return home until lunch time, so the only thing in his belly is this sugary cereal that is doing him and his attitude no favors. So I decided to try oatmeal. The child had a total turn around, he was immediately happy and his belly is now going to be full for longer than thirty minutes. Nina always told me that a happy boy is a boy that eats breakfast and has a full belly. Well I'm finally seeing the light!