Healthy Eating

Matthias has recently started a unit in Science on the food pyramid. He is learning about what foods are healthy and what foods are not. I am starting to think that he might be taking this knowledge a little too far. He is now aware of what foods are good for you and how they work to help you grow, such as proteins and carbohydrates. What has me wondering though, is the fact that every meal I serve him, I now have to tell him how each item is healthy and what it does for his body. If I cant explain how an item might be healthy, he questions my food. Thankfully I am very careful about feeding my kids healthy food, but I don't like each item held up and questioned. Oh, and also each thing I am caught eating is questioned on its health value. "Mom are those cookies healthy, or do they have alot of sugar?" "Thanks Matthias for ruining that treat!!" I guess I should be really worried about our next science unit which is on germs. I can just see him looking around questioning my cleaning skills next.