an education

Took my oldest daughter to the doctor a couple of days ago for a checkup, and she made me laugh.  Out loud.  Really loud.  She does this a lot.  Had to share.

She is 16 years old.  So, we still go to the pediatrician.  Which she finds stupefying and absurd.  But, there we were.  Got her weighed, got her height, got her temp...waited on our favorite pediatrician.  While waiting in the little room decorated with cartoonish tools, very Bob The Builder'ish, my daughter, taller than me, leans over to a poster on the wall showing the four food groups.  In fact, while we were updating her information, we had to answer "Do you eat from the four food groups?"...while answering that, she looked at me and said, "There's five".  I said, "No, they changed it".  She sighed.  

Fast forward, looking at poster.  She said, "This is NOT right.  It doesn't include fats.  Fats are critical to the human body.  Healthy fats, of course, but they are critical.  But they include dairy?  Dairy isn't even necessary!  We can get the nutrients that dairy provides from all of these other sources!".  I laughed so hard.  She wanted the pyramid.  Me, too.  Times they are a changing.  

Hope you're eating from all five tonight.