Did Parents Monitor Children's Food Intake More Closely in Past Generations Than Now?
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I controll everything that my son eats (he is only 3)  He never goes hungry, he loves good food, and he has never had McDonalds. Practically everything that he eats I make from scratch. We eat every meal at the table. The only time we eat infront of the tv is if we are watching a movie (once a week) .  And that is a small snack is preportioned before we sit down. Btw we don't have cable or anything.
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The way young people are being brought up now is very different than when I was growing up. Parents now aren't near as strict as they use to be.  If the parents of the children now were to give their children the discipline they needed instead of just giving in because of , in some cases fear then the kids now would not be in the situations they are in.  Children would not be having children and morals would be a lot different.
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compared to a century ago?  yes, I think there has been a significant change to educational learning. Look at elementary school.  They had books. Good things those books. But they only had that, eachother, and the teacher.  Now we have books, computers, voice books, television, teachers and they had each other.  Another major learning environment for the very young is the gym. Today, Physical fitness among 3rd graders is very different from a century ago.  Now we have small bikes, a variety of balls for a cheap and inexpensive price, and other odd stuff.  \nNow if I interpreted your question to, does technology impact educational learning, or does technology impact the way a child learns, the actual brain mechanics? Why?\nThe answer would be similar.  Yes ways of learning have arrived and changed since a century ago.  But for a child, how variable is learning?  One child growing up in the city of New York might go through the same phases as a child growing up in Africa, but different skills would be emphasized.
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by parents is faster.
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Ask them if they have been eating right or if they feel o.k.
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http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/trend/index.htm
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Go here my dear. I think you'll find the information you're searching for. I know you aren't a kid and this is a kid's site but it's pretty informative. Even for me, I'm 28! \n\nhttp://kidshealth.org/kid/body/digest_noSW.html\n\ntry this too...\nhttp://www.dmturner.org/Teacher/Library/4thText/FoodPart2.html\n\none more... can't you see I want to help you!!! ha ha!\nhttp://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0016.html\n\nGood luck and goodnight!
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http://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/av.htm\n\nThis might provide some good guidelines. But remember: some people have a very good metabolism and remain rather skinny even if they eat a lot. A blood analysis will tell you if your child has the right amount of vitamins, minerals and so on.
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Food is an essential part of human social interaction.\n\nFood portions have increased and it contributes to obesity.\n\nThe variety of foods available in grocery stores has increased dramatically over the past 20 years.\n\nGenetically modified foods are on the shelves of your local grocery store\n\nLack of adequate nutrition contributes to millions of deaths in the world annually.\n\nFasting can be used as a spiritual practice.
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Yes, I think so! More fuel to feed our growing bodies-- mine isn't growing much anymore though! And plus, adults' metabolisms are usually slower than ours... :-)
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As potential bearers of future humans , by default will consume at times more than men generically. Looking at facts of obese people on food consumption it is more or less equal.\n\nCusumption of financial income on personal items on a regular basis it is true that women do more than men.
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They are very limited... their roles are to cook, take care of the kids. Basically like what it use to be in US and Britain until about a 100 years ago.
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Modern culture is not what I had hoped it to be.  Perhaps I read too much sci-fi as a kid.  I see many children that are spoiled and have horrible manners.  Most have academic skills which are poor to those of a generation ago.  Their view of life is childish.  Little or no reality checks.  So be it.  My kids are all grown but they never acted like the children of today.\nI do not necessarily blame the parents.  As more mothers went to work, society should have been modified to provide better more nurturing and realistic alternatives to the typical “day care school.”\n\nAs for the clock.  It stamps using the time at the server, which is probably three time zone away from you to the west.
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Not necessarily regressing, more like changing.  Each generation reflects the signs of the times and prior generations won't or can't realize the change and their hand in that change.  \n\nTimes are changing.  It's easy for one generation to deride another because people don't cope w/ change well - the older, the more set in their ways.  Prior generations fail to realize the generation after theirs are not being shaped by their generation's psychosocial norms.  \n\nWith each generation, the stakes escalate - alcohol, pot, cocaine, LSD, downers, X, prescription drugs, and now meth.\n\nTaking it one step further:  The truth hurts.  Prior generations rarely acknowledge THEY'VE created the environment which shapes present and future generations.  Each child is a  product of the environment the ADULTS create.  \n\nComplaining about "a child out of control"?  I always ask, "Who's at home parenting the child?"  \n\nComplaining about kids being materialistic?  I always ask, "You do realize the ADULTS are the ones who knowingly market to kids right?"
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I would pay more attention to my parents. It's hard to find out now that they have been right all those times....
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agree with you as the best times I remember were family orientated. seems as though modern society in having to make a living has taken over
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The University of California Berkeley did a study on the subject.  I think it was in 2004 or 2005.