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Two Parenting Trends: All Meat Baby Diets & Out Feral their Feral! Do Babies Need Whipped Bone Marrow & Parent Prechewed Meat? Or Should Kids Be Bitten Back & Thrown Into Ponds? Which Trend Will Last?


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"When Dariya Quenneville’s infant daughter was ready for solid food, she skipped the mushed up avocado and banana. On the menu instead? Raw egg yolk and puréed chicken liver.  The child, named Schizandra, then moved on to sardines, butter and ice pops made out of bone broth. She gnawed on leg of lamb. “She would just teethe on that and soothe herself,” said Quenneville, 31. Schizandra is what her mom calls a “carnivore baby.” Most of her diet is meat, along with other animal-sourced foods like eggs and butter. “She’s an easy baby,” said Quenneville of her daughter, now almost 2. “I believe that the food in the diet is a very, very big piece of that."

This paragraph comes from the Wall Street Journal. The article is titled: "Meet the Parents Raising 'Carnivore Babies,' Swapping Pureed Fruit for Rib Eye." The article is written by Andrea Petersen. You can read the full article here


Another Best Paragraph I've Read:


"Carla Dillon tried lots of ways to discipline her rambunctious 13-year-old, including making him write the same contrite sentence 100 times. But when he sprayed her with a water gun at a campground after she asked him not to, she saw only one option: She threw him in the pond, clothes and all. “Some of the best lessons in life are the hard ones,” she said. The internet calls it “FAFO,” short for “F—Around and Find Out.” It’s a child-rearing style that elevates consequences over the “gentle parenting” methods that have helped shape Gen Z. FAFO (often pronounced “faff-oh”) is based on the idea that parents can ask andwarn, but if a child breaks the rules, mom and dad aren’t standing in the way of the repercussions. Won’t bring your raincoat? Walk home in the downpour. Didn’t feel like having lasagna for dinner? Survive until breakfast. Left your toy on the floor again? Go find it in the trash under the lasagna you didn’t eat." 


This paragraph also comes from the Wall Street Journal. The article is titled: "Goodbye Gentle Parenting, Hello 'F-Around and Find Out'" The article is written by Ellen Gamerman. You can read the full article here.

Zac & Don discuss two new trends in parenting: all meat baby diets and out feral the feral. They wonder if these are actually new trends. They discuss the positives and speculate which trend could last the longest.


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