funny

Great! It does kinda make you wonder about people don't it!

it really does,,, im sure she is not the only one tho lol

Around our house it's the opposite, the kids are much more likely to eat it if we grow it ourselves. They don't trust supermarket stuff much.

that is brilliant, least they know exactly what they are eating, they know what has been sprayed on the fruit and veg , if anything at all

Yep. My daughter won't eat any leaf greens that we didn't grow, she has a phobia about getting ill from it. Can't say I blame her too much with all the news items about contaminated food. The rest of us will but I am very careful about washing stuff! We also found a farmer about 30 miles from here that runs a co-op and we get a 10 lb basket of produce every week. It's great! This past week he had lots of corn and zucchini. YUM!

good when you find someone like that farmer to buy produce from

I can believe that - supermarket cabbage will be soaked in chemicals to kill the bugs off so they look perfect. Give me a few holes in the leaves anytime!

aye mike , too perfect

When I was a Headteacher several years ago I asked a class of four year olds where certain fruit and veg come from and how they were grown. They all replied 'The supermarket', so that says it all.When we were young our parents grew fruit and veg in the garden or allotment , but that is sadly no longer the norm.

guess thats all most of them know Grenville, its sad really .

My experience, too, Grenville. Answer to 'where do peas come from?' was - out of a packet.

Same with eggs too. At our last house we had chickens and they always laid more eggs than we needed. One day we went to visit our friend who lived a fair drive from us so we took some eggs to give them. Their three year old was cross because we hadn't gotten her a chocolate at the supermarket (which is where she thought we had got the eggs). She absolutely refused to believe that our chickens had laid them.

Amazing isn't it :)

Many kids don't know that milk comes from cows either. Perhaps there ought to be a kid-oogle website to answer things like this!

its very sad i think that kids dont know chickens lay eggs like Wolf said or milk comes from cows like Andrew just pointed out. isnt it strange tho with all their excellent education in schools now and most kids have access to the internet that they dont have a clue about the basics of life.
not all kids are ignorant to these facts i know.
do they still have nature classes in schools these days?

Hi Eileen i believe they do have Nature Classes just not Everyday food Classes which is what i thought parents Taught?:)

true jacque but i guess with a lot of folk working they just cant find the time. modern life can be great but it does have a down side too, with everyone rushing around

lol . I'm surprised by some people they think vegetables are made in some factory.
It reminds me of a story my mum tells about when she was little . Her and her cousin went to stay with an aunt of theirs who lived in the country. ( my mum is from an industrial town area ). This aunt took them to a nearby farm to see the cows being milked and the farmer's wife asked if they would like some to drink. Mum's cousin said to the farmer's wife " No thank you. I don't like cow's milk. I only like Mr. Jenkins's milk." LOL I don't know where she thought Mr Jenkins got the milk from.
And that was many yrs ago in the 1920s. Not much diferent today then.

lol well then Blodyn i guess things havent changed that much after all

Poor little children as young as 4+ have to learn Science - not about Nature at all - as well as all the rest of the National Curriculum. When I trained as a teacher, we HAD to have a Nature Table in the classroom. Now there's no time - the teachers are so busy testing, testing - and filling in reams of paper and forms!

nature tables in the class rooms were fun, changing with the seasons

The children were so involved - they were always bringing bits and pieces in for display! Anything from feathers and conkers to fossils and even snake skins! I always put a vase of something growing on it, like catkins or 'Sticky buds'. This is getting me all nostalgic for my first years as a teacher!

happy memories tho Spritz? daffs at easter time i remember on the table and pine cones in autumn

Oh yes - and if it was a sunny day we all stopped work and went outside and just LOOKED to see what we could find! Not like these days when every lesson is timed... Shame.

it is a shame

I have no idea what a nature table is but from all the comments I can hazard a guess, and it sounds like a great idea. From my own experiences in school I knew that we as parents would have to do the majority of educating our children. We made it a habit of having Sat. as "Family Day" even on into the years they were almost finished in school. We took them to as many places as we could find and tried to instill in them that learning was fun and something you continue to do all your live. We visited museums of all kinds and visited open farms and nature preserves and native American sites and historical sites and anything else we could think of. I truly believe that is why they did so well in school and are intelligent young people.
I got proof of this at the zoo one time when were looking at the tropical bird display. A little boy about the same age as my son came running up and pointed and yelled to his parents "Look at the blue birdys" My son turned to him and said "That is a macaw!"
I'm sure this sounds like I'm bragging and sure I am, but with Ga being 50th among 50 states in test scores, we could not just leave it to the schools!

I'm not sure if they are doing this everywhere else but since we moved to our current place (about a half an hour out of Geelong - the second biggest city in Victoria. I hesitate to use the word city but that's what they call it) I've noticed that many of the schools in this district have a school gardening project. The different year levels all get involved in gardening and learning environmentally sound practices. They grow all kinds of things from fruit and veg to flowers. It's incorporated into their curriculum. So there is some small hope that things will improve.

My neice had always refused to eat parsnips or peas until I encouraged her to pick them from my garden - now she loves them.

Acutally, that reminds me of a funny story - Last week, we had a family gettogether and went out for a meal at a restaurant. My neice (Rebecca, 11) was reading the menu and saw 'rump steak' and asked what a 'rump' was. I patted her on the bottom and said ' that's your rump'. Later in the meal, she was eating chicken with pasta and she asked what part of the chicken the meat came from. Her mum said it was from the breast.

Rebecca put her knife and fork down and crossed her arms and said defiantly, 'I'm not eating any breasts or bums!'

Wonderful.

lol good one sid,