That was just jaw-dropping to me. When I was raising my toddler, one of the things I did to increase his vocabulary and make the trip to the store more enjoyable for both of us was to go through the store and identify the items as we shopped. “What’s this, Micah?” I’d say and he’d respond “Carrots! or Lettuce! or onion!” or whatever. And we had a backyard garden, and he’d always “help” with the harvesting of snap peas or the rest. As I cooked, he’d stand on a chair and crack the eggs for me or help to stir the “sauce.” We were picking berries together as soon as he could walk. I just can’t imagine those kids being so disconnected from the reality of the plant world. Outrageous! Now I find that I have to explain to the check out clerks in the grocery stores what vegetable they are ringing up. “What’s this?” they will ask when savoy cabbage or fennel or a persimmon comes through. Pathetic.
Wow. I must be out of touch with ‘reality’.. perhaps because I don’t have kids of my own yet? I had no idea that 6 year olds can’t identify at least the most obvious foods, like tomatoes and potatoes.. that’s absurd!! At the age of six I probably couldn’t name an eggplant either, but… potatoes & tomatoes?!!
To me it implies a disconnect, likely as a result of overly processed food. They simply don’t know where the stuff they’re eating is coming from, other than the store.
I just showed this to my neighbor who came from rural, agricultural Idaho, where her family helped operate an industrial dairy with 100,000 cows (and the family doesn’t seem that wealthy in that position either.). She said her parents and others in the community largely have the packaged, Mac’n cheese diet, so the video isn’t surprising. Many kids aren’t moving in Twin falls and are lucky to do FFA or 4H.
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That was just jaw-dropping to me. When I was raising my toddler, one of the things I did to increase his vocabulary and make the trip to the store more enjoyable for both of us was to go through the store and identify the items as we shopped. “What’s this, Micah?” I’d say and he’d respond “Carrots! or Lettuce! or onion!” or whatever. And we had a backyard garden, and he’d always “help” with the harvesting of snap peas or the rest. As I cooked, he’d stand on a chair and crack the eggs for me or help to stir the “sauce.” We were picking berries together as soon as he could walk. I just can’t imagine those kids being so disconnected from the reality of the plant world. Outrageous! Now I find that I have to explain to the check out clerks in the grocery stores what vegetable they are ringing up. “What’s this?” they will ask when savoy cabbage or fennel or a persimmon comes through. Pathetic.
Wow. I must be out of touch with ‘reality’.. perhaps because I don’t have kids of my own yet? I had no idea that 6 year olds can’t identify at least the most obvious foods, like tomatoes and potatoes.. that’s absurd!! At the age of six I probably couldn’t name an eggplant either, but… potatoes & tomatoes?!!
To me it implies a disconnect, likely as a result of overly processed food. They simply don’t know where the stuff they’re eating is coming from, other than the store.
I just showed this to my neighbor who came from rural, agricultural Idaho, where her family helped operate an industrial dairy with 100,000 cows (and the family doesn’t seem that wealthy in that position either.). She said her parents and others in the community largely have the packaged, Mac’n cheese diet, so the video isn’t surprising. Many kids aren’t moving in Twin falls and are lucky to do FFA or 4H.