On Sunday, there was a party at my house, and one of my friends who attended was a pediatrician at Kaiser Santa Clara, which is the closest major doctor's office near Sutter. I thought this was a great opportunity for Jacob to ask my friend for his support toward his chocolate milk campaign. I was terribly shocked to hear that my pediatrician friend who against bringing chocolate milk back to school. His only reason was because of the childhood obesity epidemic. I still believe that reasoning is ridiculous. Here are my reasons.
1. chocolate milk has been around long before the childhood obesity epidemic
2. kids are not drinking milk at all now that they don't have achoice, so they're losing out on calcium and vitamin D ( 1 in 5 kids have rickets)
3. my friend mentioned that kids can get their calcium from othersources, like cheese and vegetables, but I said that the school is not providing enough of that
4. my friend mentioned that concerned parents like me could give my kids chocoloate milk after school, but I was saying that when I was on free lunch growing up, my mom didn't buy milk for us at home. Also, I want my kids to drink milk at lunch time.
5. It's the cheetos, soda, and lack of exercise making kids obese, not chocolate milk.
6. the school is still serving juice which is RIDICULOUS
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Teaching Delayed Gratification
Jacob won and is now Student Council President!
Today, James and I fulfilled our promise to Jacob by taking him to the Apple Store to buy an i-pod nano. While we were there,we noticed that the i-pod nano was really very boring compared to the i-touch. The nano only played music. The i-touch was a video camera and gamer,book reader, AND music player on top of that. Of course,there was quite a price difference. The nanon would have cost about $140 while the i-touch cost $220. James and I were thinking that the i-touch was a much better piece of technology for the price. Jacob and Joanna were also having fun with the i-touch samples. We decided that we would give Jacob an incentive to upgrade. The condition was that he had to first fulfill his campaign promises in order to get the i-touch. It was about delaying gratification because, regardless of whether he chose getting the i-pod or not, I would make him fulfill campaign promises. But I thought this would be a nice incentive.
It was really hard for Jacob because he was not used to delaying gratification, but with the help of a really cool young, male Apple salesperson who was talking to him, telling him that the i-touch was worth the wait, Jacob chose to wait for the i-touch. I really hope Jacob will appreciate the value of delayed gratification because of this!
Today, James and I fulfilled our promise to Jacob by taking him to the Apple Store to buy an i-pod nano. While we were there,we noticed that the i-pod nano was really very boring compared to the i-touch. The nano only played music. The i-touch was a video camera and gamer,book reader, AND music player on top of that. Of course,there was quite a price difference. The nanon would have cost about $140 while the i-touch cost $220. James and I were thinking that the i-touch was a much better piece of technology for the price. Jacob and Joanna were also having fun with the i-touch samples. We decided that we would give Jacob an incentive to upgrade. The condition was that he had to first fulfill his campaign promises in order to get the i-touch. It was about delaying gratification because, regardless of whether he chose getting the i-pod or not, I would make him fulfill campaign promises. But I thought this would be a nice incentive.
It was really hard for Jacob because he was not used to delaying gratification, but with the help of a really cool young, male Apple salesperson who was talking to him, telling him that the i-touch was worth the wait, Jacob chose to wait for the i-touch. I really hope Jacob will appreciate the value of delayed gratification because of this!
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