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To not have given my baby any chocolate buttons yet?

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jaggythistle · 30/07/2010 16:15

I have nothing against chocolate in any form, it just hadn't occurred to me to give him any! He is 10mo now.

I go to a baby group which is on a morning, DS has usually only just had his breakfast by the time we get out the door. I seem to be one of the only ones without wee tubs of snacks about my person for the hour long expedition, so I am wondering if I am wierd!

I have been asked over the last few months if he was 'allowed' a chocolate button which caught me on the hop because I hadn't really thought about it. DS was too busy investigating the toys to be bothered so it didn't really matter. Their babies were younger than mine too so it made me think.

TBH I have been concentrating on getting the hang of him eating food, so hadn't thought about sweeties. He has the odd biscuit and stuff to chew on so he does have some wee snacks.

Not especially controversial this one, interested in opinions on whether I am odd though.. ;)

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Morloth · 30/07/2010 17:15

Well it should jaggythistle, this is your PFB you are talking about. What if you have missed an important developmental milestone here?

prozacfairy · 30/07/2010 17:16

YANBU. I was doing fine with avoiding chocolate thing until DD was nearly 1 and her dad gave her chocolate and that was it she's now chocaholic! Until then she was happy with grapes, rice cakes and tea biscuits.

My advice: Steer DS clear of the choclate long as you can!

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jaggythistle · 30/07/2010 17:16

Damn it. When I get home from work I am going to wake him up (if he's sleeping...) and give him some cake to make up for it.

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Oblomov · 30/07/2010 17:17

i can't remember when ds1 had chocolate for the first time. probably before 1 though. i can't see the harm.
what a very very ocassional bit of chocolate, as part of a very heathy diet for a pre 1 year old ?
seems o.k. to me.
ds2 had chocolate. can't remember when. but as blondeshavemorefun, he would have grown up with it, from birth, i mean seeing it. as ds1 eats it. not all the time. from time to time.
so ds2 prob had quite a few bit sof chocolate and biscuits pre 1. well a few atleast.

i can't see what all the fuss is all about ?

whatname · 30/07/2010 20:12

its not gonna do them any harm......... but beware............ as soon as they know what it is........ they will whine and whine and whine for it.
you have been warned

bran · 30/07/2010 20:16

Save chocolate buttons for when they are really needed, potty training. My DD will do anything for chocolate buttons now that she's tasted them.

Chil1234 · 30/07/2010 21:14

When my DS was about 4 or 5 we went somewhere and he was offered custard.... When he asked 'do I like custard?' I realised I'd never given it to him. Poor thing. I say this not because I some healthy-eating Nazi that withholds sweets (far from it) but because it's very easy to find that you've just forgotten to let them try some fairly ordinary foodstuff if it's not in your normal repertoire. Doesn't make you weird, especially.

proudnsad · 30/07/2010 21:39

Wow OP what an amazing mother you are. Is that the right reaction?

chickbean · 30/07/2010 21:48

My almost 4 year old hardly ever has chocolate. I let him have it when other people offer it/are having it but never buy it when it's just us. My husband and I ate all but one of his Easter eggs this year - he never asked about them, so I thought he wouldn'y miss them. His 2 year old brother didn't even get to eat one of his Easter eggs . I love chocolate, but think that if my children don't even realise it's there, I'd rather give them healthy stuff while I still can.

Mumcentreplus · 30/07/2010 21:49

what does odd mean anyway..

ruthosaurus · 30/07/2010 21:49

How on earth did you manage to avoid custard for 4 years? I bet you were secretly bingeing on it when he was in bed (okay, not everyone is as hypocritical as me).

Mine hasn't had chocolate buttons but would stomp across my stiffening corpse for cake in any form.

ruthosaurus · 30/07/2010 21:51

Oh, hang on, didn't want to seem pious re choc buttons - he has had green & black. I just never buy milk chocolate, it's sticky and weird.

SloanyPony · 30/07/2010 21:53

For anyone who doesn't "get" the snacking thing - and I'm not talking about chocolate buttons here but just snacks in general.

If I'd had my DD first, I'd probably wonder too. She never really demands food now that she's weaned.

My son, however, needed first milk, breakfast, mid morning snack, lunch, milk & mid afternoon snack, and dinner, then bedtime milk. Otherwise he would whinge/scream the place down. AND, if lunch wasn't bang on 12, and dinner bang on 5, all hell would break loose. I assumed all children were like that until various friends with children seemed to think it odd that I would leave a little jaunt somewhere at 5 to 12 to find somewhere to give DS his lunch! Like he was going to die or something. He wasn't, but he was about to kill me with his whinging.

He's not overweight or anything by the way, 75th centile. Nor does he do it now - as he got older he got a bit more chilled out and his appetite wasn't as ferocious and timetable driven!

littledawley · 30/07/2010 21:55

My first child was given a packet of magic stars at baby group on his first birthday - they lasted three weeks, I kid you not, I would let him have two after his dinner.

My third child is 16months old and had a lolly last week...... (has also tasted skips, wotsits and haribo)

MonkeyMargot · 30/07/2010 22:04

My older and wiser brother once advised me that a child tasting chocolate for the first time is akin to someone with an addictive personality taking crack cocaine. For this reason I have avoided giving my DD (20 months) the stuff. Not sure why I have stuck to this so rigidly when she eats cake and icecream...

RandyRussian · 30/07/2010 22:21

Haven't any DCs (yet!) but FWIW my mum used to buy small bars of milk chocolate and we'd each have a square a day. This is one of my very earliest (preschool) memories and 'I am a chocoholic'. Managed to quit smoking but can't crack the choccy 'habit'! Literally can't have it in the house or I eat the lot. Have even been known to plunder the baking cupboard for choc chips,sprinkles,etc.

BE WARNED!

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