One thing for your kiddo(s)

Do you feel like you've failed when it comes to feeding your kid optimally for his or her health? Man. I do.
My sweet boy has struggled with vomiting since shortly after introducing solid foods. It took us forever to identify food allergies and finally stop the daily puke fest. I have battled a ton of "mom guilt" all along the way. Yes, before conceiving this beautiful child, my husband and I did a gut microbiome restoring diet called GAPS for two years. I did a series of detox therapies to remedy hormonal imbalances, involving fasting and lots of enemas one weekend every month for a year. After this, I started grinding my own flour for sourdough bread and we transitioned to a 95% organic diet where most all of our animal products came exclusively from local sustainable Amish farms. If there was more I could have done to prepare for a healthy child, I would have done it if I had known about it. You may say I am a bit gung ho. At times.  
But for whatever reason, and I trust God it is for your benefit, my child is not the perfect image of health. I can blame his picky-ness, or that nanny that we had, or I can blame my husband, or my free-spirit personality. But this is not going to help his irregular bowel movements, or stop him from breaking out in hives just touching butter

after one bite of goat ghee

But you know what? I can do ONE THING. And I am hopeful for you and your kids too, because you can do the same! I've been pretty lenient in my opinion, letting my kid eat things he likes and not things he doesn't.  But this needs to stop. For his health. I'm confessing to you now, I have prioritized ease and lack of conflict over my child's health. And this is ending today. His health is too important. Should I put him on the GAPS Introduction diet right away? Probably should. Am I ready for that again? No, I'm not. Will I get there? Maybe some day.  Maybe soon. But you know what I can do? I can CHANGE ONE THING about how I feed my kid. And I can start today. And I CAN DO ONE THING every day until it is so normal that maybe I can do one more thing. And eventually, maybe, he will be on GAPS and we will heal his allergies. Or maybe God will heal his allergies miraculously! Yes! Amen! Or maybe Little Man will just slowly grow out of them. I don't know. But I don't need to know all of that right now. I just need to be faithful as a mom with that ONE THING. So my first thing to try is bone broth.
Bone broth is healing to the gut lining and replete in minerals! It is also a sneaky way to get nutrients from vegetables into my carnivorous son. Bone broth is high in glutamine, an amino acid that protects the mucous membrane in the intestines, stomach and esophagus, and is therefore used as a supplement for those who suffer from IBS or reflux or other digestive ailments.
For one week, I resolved to make Little Man drink broth each morning. Yes. Make him. I started with a tiny bit, like two tablespoons. And I increased each day.  Saying, "you need to drink this before you can eat anything else".
Now let me be clear. I don't think it is right to force large amounts of any food on your kid because it disrupts children's intuitive way of eating proper proportions. This is especially the case with too much liquid. But for my boy, right now, I know a bit of bone broth will only help him. And I also know he will naturally drink less water later in the day if he drinks some broth in the morning.

Full Disclosure:
The bone broth only lasted a week! I'm so sad to say, it became such a battle and we would delay going to preschool by two hours just because he didn't want to drink it. So, I stopped. UGH. And I focused in on some other things that I'm doing for my boy: Probiotic powder in his water bottle every other day, and fish oil- a little spoon with a meal when I remember. <-- maybe this will be my next "one thing" that I religiously do each morning.

So what about you? And your dear child? What is ONE THING that you have not been doing that you could do each day or each week? Let's reserve all self-judgement and stand together in hope for more steadfast parents and healthier kids.