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To ask when you started giving DC chocolate?

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newmumwithquestions · 19/03/2016 07:53

My sister bought 18mo DD an Easter egg. I was really surprised as I've never given DD anything like that and said I wouldn't give it to her (with hindsight I need to apologise for being ungrateful - she was only trying to be nice). My sister then asked when she could buy the kids chocolate as she said other friends kids got chocolate at that age. I've always thought I'd keep sweets and chocolate away from them until they discover it exists. Am I being pfb? What age did you all start giving your DC chocolate?

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Lightbulbon · 19/03/2016 08:41

With. Pfb nothing before school age.

Dc2 on 2nd birthday

Dc3 6 months

curren · 19/03/2016 08:43

Dd was a about 9 months when she wrestle some off her cousin. She rarely eats it and she is now 12.

Ds (5) isn't fussed about chocolate, I can't remember how old he was.

I don't get the who issue around chocolate. You are parent she can have a bit now and again. You control it. She doesn't have to eat it in one go.

I am glad you are apologising, I think that was really rude.

I do think you are being a bit pfb.

Personally I think food be gained an issue when parents make it an issue. Chocolate isn't the Devils food.

Lndnmummy · 19/03/2016 08:49

My ds got his first easter egg (forst chocklate) when he had turned two but I didnt let him eat all or even most of it.same last year.

Bluebolt · 19/03/2016 09:20

I treat chocolate in the same way as other foods, I would not let a child eat 10 yoghurts or 10 bananas they got a small amount and never as a treat or reward and there is always chocolate in the house and when the ask the get a yes or no depending what else they have eaten. Those of my friends who complain about their weight have links with viewing food as good and bad including myself.

MyBreadIsEggy · 19/03/2016 09:26

I'm waiting for my mum to get shitty with me when she asks if I'll let DD (11mo) eat an Easter egg if she buys her one, and I say no. The same way as she did over an advent calendar at Christmas......
However my mum is one of those that was trying to feed my DD raspberry jam at 3 months old when she thought I wasn't looking
I'm really careful with sugar, purely because it's really difficult for us to brush DD's teeth (she hates it!). So to save me worrying about tooth decay, I just limit the amount of sugar she eats - and that means no sweets or chocolate, and only the occasional biscuit/nibble of cake at a party.

MrRochestersDog · 19/03/2016 09:26

After he turned 3 I became a lot more relaxed about sweets, chocolate, cake etc.

Paperchaserr · 19/03/2016 09:45

PFB was at least three, we were good parents in those days. Second got it off DC1 pretty quickly. Third, meh.

MummaV · 19/03/2016 10:24

Last Christmas. DD was 9 months and was bought approx 10 packets of buttons by various well meaning family members. She has 4 buttons as a treat on a Sunday. They will easily last until next Christmas. Luckily she eats very well and really enjoys having her teeth brushed.

I see nothing wrong with it as an occasional treat. I however was bribed with chocolate from a very young age and was very overweight as a child.

Everything in moderation as long as you are able to brush teeth etc.

BillBrysonsBeard · 19/03/2016 10:25

DS had it at around 6 months, he loved it! He's now nearly 2 and I've never specifically bought it for him, but give him a bit of mine when he comes over with his puppy dog eyes. If he was bought an Easter egg then I would give him a bit and gobble the rest myself, they would be gladly received Everything in moderation...

Flisspaps · 19/03/2016 10:26

6 months. They ate what we ate, and that involved chocolate.

The wine was off limits though.

DonkeyOaty · 19/03/2016 10:27

PFB was 18 months first ice cream, chocolates probably preschool age

By the youngest it was wotsits and chocolate buttons all the way

SimpleSimonThePieMan · 19/03/2016 10:35

Our DD has had chocolate from 6 months along with cake, ice cream, chips and all manner of things that are bad for you in large quantities. However, she only has tiny amounts of these kind of things as opposed to large amounts of fresh veg, fruit, cheese etc. At 11 months old she loves Stilton and cheese in general. Our approach is that she'll taste and eat as many different things as possible as part of a healthy balanced diet. She's not suddenly going to discover chocolate at 2 years old and see it as a forbidden treat.

Alanna1 · 19/03/2016 10:38

I think there is a difference between first and second children. My first was about 2. My second had it when she could get it off the first. But they get very little "wrapped chocolate" - their chocolate is more in food (pain au chocolat, brownie etc).

Birdsgottafly · 19/03/2016 10:38

Around 14 months, my youngest is 18, though.

My GD started being given Brioche with choc chips in at around 10 months, she has the odd biscuit, but not just plain chocolate, iyswim. She's 15 months and my DD has requested no Easter egg etc, mainly because my GD isn't that fussed on chocolate, anyway.

Pinkheart5915 · 19/03/2016 10:41

My ds is 6 months so the weaning has started. But the Easter eggs my mil has given for him I will be eating myself. I'm not giving him chocolate until he is much older.

If he was 18 months like your dd I might give a couple of chocolate buttons or a small amount of the broken egg, but that would be all.

ScoutsMam · 19/03/2016 10:43

6 months. I baked a chocolate and banana loaf and thought she'd like to try it. It's not smack. You don't have to let them eat it all at once.

DelphiniumBlue · 19/03/2016 10:43

Ds1 was about 3, the subsequent ones much youngest.
Ds1, now in his twenties, still remembers his outrage at finding out that I knew that Cocopops existed and kept that fact from him. He must have been about 7 or 8 when he first had them at a sleep over!

Lottie2611 · 19/03/2016 10:46

Around 6 months. A tiny bit.
But by the time his second Easter came around he was about 16 months. And we gave him a whole egg in one go. It's Easter! Won't harm

DurhamDurham · 19/03/2016 10:50

My oldest daughter must have been about three when she had her first taste of chocolate, my youngest definitely had some before she was one but I can't remember exactly when.

They're adults now, perfectly healthy and not a trace of obesity between them

RueDeWakening · 19/03/2016 10:51

DC1: age 2
DC2: age 1
DC3: birth

liquidrevolution · 19/03/2016 10:58

DD is nearly 21 months and hasn't had any. It's on her nursery notes - no chocolate or sweets but that's more a hangover from when she first started and was only 8 months. She chooses yogurt over cake but is currently stuffing her face with biscuits and drinking tea so all much of a muchness. She has tried chocolate but didnt think much of it. We have plastic eggs for an Easter egg hunt but will put some choc buttons in the final one.

The reason is I am a chocoholic and will binge eat if it's in the house so it's just easier for me not to have it around.

Fratelli · 19/03/2016 10:59

I'm not sure as I think dp or mil gave ds some when I wasn't there. I'm not bothered though. Everything in moderation is the healthiest attitude as far as I'm concerned. Some people treat chocolate like it's the devil which sends a bad message to children. Just like labelling foods as good and bad.

BumWad · 19/03/2016 11:02

Maybe I'm being pfb (DS is only 9 months old) but I will be keeping chocolate away from him as long as I can! I'm genuinely and under 1 year olds having it.

WorraLiberty · 19/03/2016 11:03

I can't remember to be honest, but then I'm pretty easy come, easy go about these things.

I expect my eldest went longer without it than his brothers, as they would have discovered it sooner, given that they'd see DS1 eating it.

But 'meh' really.

LaurieMarlow · 19/03/2016 11:04

DS is 21 months and has had very little in the way of chocolate. He won't get an egg this year - maybe a nibble of ours. The odd taste now and then is fine, but not something I want to encourage tbh.

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