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Cartoon: Food Freedom

arun on Apr 22 2008 at 6:41 am | Filed under: cartoons, control & connection, unregulating food, tv | Click here to go HOME | or find out about SUBSCRIBING TO THE PIT |

This is so me sometimes

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[note: you can reproduce any of these cartoons so long as you: 1) leave a comment or drop me a line to tell me where; 2) include a live link back to www.theparentingpit.com; and 3) if you ever meet me in person, promise to buy me a banana smoothie.]

18 Responses to “Cartoon: Food Freedom”

on 22 Apr 2008 at 7:27 am 1Julie Osborne

Love the cartoons Arun…makes me feel human!
Julie
on 22 Apr 2008 at 12:18 pm 2Deanne

So funny, and so true! ;P
on 22 Apr 2008 at 2:09 pm 3Colleen

Oh my god Arun, I have to try so hard not to do that–sometimes I just can’t stop myself!
on 23 Apr 2008 at 12:59 am 4mamacrow

oh, that’s me.
on 23 Apr 2008 at 4:02 am 5arun

glad its not just me…

i could actually draw a sequel. M will buy it, start to eat it and then will dump it on the kitchen table after a few bites because she has had enough…

Then ill come along and scoff down the rest!

This happened tonight. M asked for fudge. We bought it (without my hysteria in this instance fortunately). M had one bite and decided it was too sweet. I ate it all… because… well because it was fudge and was too sweet.
on 23 Apr 2008 at 11:20 pm 6Lynn

Hilarious ) Glad to know I’m not the only one then…….
on 28 Apr 2008 at 3:13 pm 7Ginger Carlson

Hilarious! I would love to use this on my Thinking Outside the Recipe blog!
on 28 Apr 2008 at 8:25 pm 8Sarah

That’s funny…how many times I’ve said something similar!!
on 07 May 2008 at 11:17 am 9Angela

arun, That really cracked me up.

I’m gonna put it on LifeLoveFood.com too. I’m on the hook for a banana smoothie… but no sugar!
on 08 May 2008 at 1:48 am 10Kim H

Hi Arun,

I just stopped by to have a lovely visit at your webstie and found these fantastic cartoons. You are sooo clever! The food one is really fantastic. One I think all of us, moving along to the radical unschoolers end, can relate to. I was just saying to a friend how cool it would be to use your cartoon as the starter for a discussion topic on food and RU.

Hey, if I ever get a book published will you do the cartoons for it? Actually, I imagine you’ll be doing your own book soon…..:)

love Kim
on 08 May 2008 at 2:29 am 11arun

phew, when i posted this i thought, “maybe this is just me”.

thanks Ginger & Angela… its nice to know that there are a few more banana smoothies with my name on them, even if i do have to go half way accross the world to get them (hmm not so good for food miles hey?)

and thanks kim, i hope that means there is a book in the pipe line for you? That would be very cool!

I am actually slowly starting to write a book (at this stage happening in my brain in the shower, on the toilet and long drives) but its actually a science fiction one with very little to do with parenting (well i guess pretty much all of the characters have parents though!).

I dont think I could bare a whole book about my neurotic attempts at alternative parenting & unschooling… way too painful to wade through
on 28 Jun 2008 at 3:00 am 12wietski

Hi Arun!

My name is Wiwiet, I love this cartoon, and actually this is exactly what I always imagine how an unschooler mom describe in a comic strip or cartoon

IF you don’t mind, I’ll add in to my multiply. with the “convincing dad” too
on 01 Aug 2008 at 5:45 pm 13Yvonne

Hiya Arun,
I love your website!

I have included this cartoon in our latest issue of Rotorua Parents Centre newsletter, Pitter Patter. I am sorry I cannot do a link to a printed newsletter but will include your website address for all and sundry to visit. And, of course, if I get the pleasure to meet you I’ll make you a banana smoothie!

Thanks for the inspiration, truth and humour.
on 24 Sep 2009 at 7:07 pm 14katie jo

Hey i havent decided yet but i think i am gonna use this cartoon in my senior paper. i love it! and i think it will tie in very nicely… Your site address will be cited on my papar so no worries about that =] Thank You.
on 20 Jun 2010 at 8:29 am 15yugandhara roy

my kids say this to me all the time ! this is so NOT me. its so them.
on 30 Aug 2010 at 7:27 am 16Denise

Hi Arun – Love the comic…think I’ll post it on my FB page this morning Thanks!
on 28 Dec 2010 at 12:11 pm 17Terri

Hi Arun:

I love this cartoon! I am going to include it in the Nov-Dec 2010 issue of our ministry newsletter. I will cite your website and if you email me I will reply with an adobe-based copy of our newsletter.

Thanks for posting this! I will be checking out your site more in the future for inspiration and recreation.
on 24 Jan 2011 at 6:05 am 18Ana

Hi, this is great! I shared it on my FB profile minute ago