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Do you pinch your children's sweets?

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sweetiethief · 15/01/2003 23:52

I am adopting a bogus identity for this.

My kids are young.
I care about their teeth.
I'm a greedy pig.

When friends visit they often bring sweets for my children but they give them to me to dispense ater dinner as I see fit.

I thank them and nod sagely then as often as not scoff them myself, for the sake of their teeth you understand.

Do any of you do this kind parental act for your darlings?

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ScummyMummy · 15/01/2003 23:54

YES! Aren't we caring?

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anais · 15/01/2003 23:55

Lol, yep, but don't tell them.

I am a chocoholic, but trying to go cold turkey. The problem is my mum keeps buying chocolate for the kids....

It's not my fault, I'm weak willed - chocolate was my down fall when I tried to be a vegan! I'm ok, as long as there's none in the house...

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sobernow · 16/01/2003 00:01

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WideWebWitch · 16/01/2003 00:05

No. Am saint.

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sobernow · 16/01/2003 00:06

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ScummyMummy · 16/01/2003 00:12

Methinks you lie! WWW is a bit of a misnomer for a saint, ain't it girlfriend?

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susanmt · 16/01/2003 01:23

Yes, I do it. Am saint for protecting my children from the adverse censequences of sugar. Have given up my figure for their teeth!

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EmmaTMG · 16/01/2003 06:49

I feel it's my duty to protect his teeth() so I let them have one or two then have first pickings out of the rest.
Besides it rarely the giver of the sweets who has the deal with the aftermath of a bag of sweets and all that sugar. If they were kind enough to supervise them while they climb the walls and run riot while I go out for a couple of hours then they can have the lot. Do I ever get such an offer.....NO!

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mollipops · 16/01/2003 08:17

Exactly EmmaTMG.

We do it for our sanity, and to save their little bodies from the onslaught of all those artificial colours and flavours. We do it for their own good, with no thought whatsoever for our own dental health. It's one of my most selfless acts as a mum.

Hee hee.

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SoupDragon · 16/01/2003 08:19

Yes, sometimes. It's getting more and more difficult now as DS1 catches on to what a party bag is. I never let them have those Jelly type sweets as I can't bear the thought of them all stuck to their teeth. I don't eat these either though, it's chocolate and Wotsits that are my weakness.

AndI don't believe WWW never eats her children's sweets - it's just not possible!

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GeorginaA · 16/01/2003 08:51

I do all the time. ds is so young I really don't like the idea of him having sugary sweets at all. Pure chocolate I don't mind him having but even that gets rationed to special occasions or if he's eaten well at a meal (then he gets two chocolate buttons). Then I see other kids ds' age tucking their way through a whole bag of chocolate buttons and then start to worry about being unnecessarily restrictive!

Anyway, for Christmas ds got loads of totally inappropriate sweets like crunchie bars and curly whirlies so I had to help him out. He also got a tube of chocolate buttons that would actually last him all year at his current intake - perhaps I'll have to cull a few of those as well...

... it's a hard life.

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breeze · 16/01/2003 08:54

i believe www doesn't eat their sweets, some people do not like them at all. Unfortunately i am not one of them, i even buy sweets as a treat and then eat them before i have even given them to him (does that count).

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Bozza · 16/01/2003 09:02

DS got loads of sweets for Christmas and DH and I have been fighting over them. DS has still got more than enought left. I used to give him a packet of buttons or a banana to eat in the pushchair while we went shopping but have discovered that an apple takes him loads longer and therefore keeps him occupied loads longer and so the choccie etc will probably stay in the cupboard. Unless I get munchies....

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WideWebWitch · 16/01/2003 09:25

Honestly, I don't! But it's because I don't eat dairy and chocolate has milk in it. So I'm not really a saint. Also ds is really tight with his sweets and won't usually give me even one fruit pastille. So even if I want one of his sweets (when it's something that doesn't contain dairy) the begging I have to do to get it means it's not worth it Sobernow, love your party bag story! Rice cakes indeed!

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mam · 16/01/2003 10:00

yes esp of late the amt they have been given & the type is awful I've given lots away too but one 'friend' gave my 2 yr old a whole bag of those mini-treat jelly type sweets once as a present & the friend has children around the same age too - I felt really insulted as if just because I'm fat my children will eat loads of rubbish!!!!!!

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susanmt · 16/01/2003 10:04

soupdragon - WOTSITS!!!!
My biggest downfall too!!

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soyabean · 16/01/2003 10:09

Cant really keep sweets in the house, tho I am on a non dairy thing now which I seem to be able to control better than other dietary restrictions, and that helps. But I have a friend who keeps a sweetie shop in the house so the children v=can spend pocket money on Saturday. I could never do that, the shop wd be constantly out of stock and I'd have to keep buying suplies. I have been knwon to buy a family pack of kitkats or whatever on spcial offer, supposedly for lunchboxes, but only one member of the family actually was ever the 'beneficiary'. Sigh. But it is better for their little teeth isnt it.

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SoupDragon · 16/01/2003 10:17

DS1 has just asked if he can have some Wotsits and there are none left... Gulp.

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SueW · 16/01/2003 10:29

We fight over Haribos in this house - open warfare, including DH who doesn't eat sweets normally!

We went for dinner recently with friends and ate takeaway curry in their very posh dining room, using best china etc. For pud we were brought the children's sweetie tin. Yummmmm - lots of mini bars etc to choose from.

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Marina · 16/01/2003 10:41

I'm another martyr to the cause of my child's dental health. I draw the line at hoovering up his unwanted spinach, that's different.

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GeorginaA · 16/01/2003 11:18

SueW - what a great idea for having friends over

Going to do that next time I want to catch up with friends without too much entertaining work!

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star · 16/01/2003 12:29

Sweetytheif,you can come clean now you're not alone.I just can't resist crappy sweets,cola bottles,love hearts I just love them.They'll thank us for it one day.Their granparents used to tell me off for eating their choccy so I just used to be more sneaky about it.Now I'm on a diet so no more for me I'm afraid.
Sobernow Two bags!You wait,you won't get away with it when they get a bit older.

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Demented · 16/01/2003 12:33

YES!

There have to be some benefits in having kids!

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CAM · 16/01/2003 13:19

Depends on the kind of sweets - if I don't like them then dd can have more. If I do like them then dd can have less. Don't tell on me!

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slug · 16/01/2003 13:22

LOL Demented, reminds me of an incident (many years ago now) while at a sporting tournament. One of my teammates announced "One of the best things about being a mother of teenagers is you can confiscate these." And produced a bag of errr herbal jazz cigarettes (cough, cough, innocent look) of which we all participated.

Dh considers money given to the sluglet as beer money. His excuse, it's good for her to have a chilled daddy.