Advice For New Parents: Ice Cream

Posted on April 18, 2011 
Filed Under Fathering, Humor, Parenting, Personal

At the time we were expecting our first child, Dena and I were volunteering with the college group at church. The “kids” threw a baby shower for us, and a cherished gift, which I still have, was a small notebook with suggestions for being good parents. It has some priceless perspectives for new parents!

Over the next weeks I’ll share some of the golden nuggets of advice from these scholars. Here’s the first installment.

My advice to you is to make sure you feed your new baby ice cream whenever the opportunity arises.

“Why,” you might ask? Well, when I was little my mother would treat my brother, sister and me to Dairy Queen after our Saturday morning swim lessons. The problem was that I was too young at the time to realize that my mom only ordered an empty cone for me – no ice cream! As I matured, I finally realized what I was missing, and boy did I get angry! I’m not sure I can ever forgive my mother for that.

So if you think your baby will never know — beware! One day he will find out. He will grow up wondering what else he missed out on.

‘Tis better to have a fat baby than a bitter baby.

Let your baby indulge in ice cream!

It took many years, but I think Dena and I are starting to see the wisdom in this advice. In fact, we just had ice cream yesterday. Trying to make up for lost time…

Comments

3 Responses to “Advice For New Parents: Ice Cream”

  1. Margaret on April 22nd, 2011 10:09 am

    Hi John, it’s great to hear Max Lucado and Lee Strobel again and always in Focus’ program. But now regarding the ice cream ‘anytime-you-have-a-chance’: CNN just talked about the poisonous nature of added sugar. I wouldn’t teach children to be addicted to sugar from their early age. Instead of giving them ice cream “whenever you have a chance” I would get them used to having an apple anytime you can.
    Cheers, Margaret

  2. Wendy Hagen on April 23rd, 2011 12:40 am

    This is especially funny to me because today while I was getting my hair done . . . my dad forgot to pick my son up from school. So my husband went and got him just as the school was about to close (30 minutes after school got out). My son is 7. He was a bit shook up. When I spoke to my husband and asked where they were . . . “What do I always do with one of our kids if they get injured or traumatized?”
    Ice cream.
    I’m sure they’ll one day in therapy over using food for comfort, but for now it sure works to heal all wounds.
    http://www.hagenhoopla.blogspot.com

  3. JohnFuller on April 26th, 2011 3:13 pm

    Thanks, Wendy, and I like YOUR blog!

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