To NOT give DS (6 months) a "taste" of chocolate

[Misswrite89]

On a board on another parenting forum, where all our children are around the same age, someone has asked whether we will be giving our babies a "taste" of chocolate over Easter.

I am certainly not but another poster has said that those who don't are "Scrooges" and that a little bit of chocolate does no harm. In fact it seems quite a few posters will be giving their kids a bit of Easter egg and I'm in the minority.

AIBU by NOT giving my six month old son even a bit of chocolate? I don't want him having any added sugar for the next few months whilst he's in the early stages of weaning and for this reason have avoided giving baby jars/pouches and have made homemade purees. I hadn't thought about when to allow chocolate and other junk food but I suppose the first time I would is on his first birthday when he can have a bit of his cake if he likes. I'm certainly not going to deprive him of treats as he gets older as I don't want them to be "forbidden" and want him to have a healthy relationship with food but I just hadn't intended to give him food with added sugar and other crap until he's old enough to ask for it.

AIBU or indeed a "Scrooge"?

YANBU as its your child, so it's completely up to you. I did let my DS try chocolate at pretty much the same age as your DS last Easter, from there I allowed very occasionally some sweet things like small taste of custard or tiny tastes of chocolate if I was eating it (I only have it occasionally myself as I'm always trying new diets lol). I did however try to be stricter on his salt intake, and didn't want him eating processed foods that often contain a lot of salt; but then I caught my 8 year old sister sharing a Happy Meal with DS when he was just 9 months old

I've been in your shoes! I was on a forum for babies born in the same month and the discussion was on putting chocolate in their Xmas stocking. Babies not turned one yet so not something I would do personally but I got a bit of flack for that!

I left the group after some hurtful comments about birthday cake. For my dd's first birthday I wanted to make a 'baby friendly' cake using mashed peach and banana instead of sugar and cream for the icing. I wasn't slating anyone else's choices I just mentioned (on someone else's post asking what cake we were all getting) that I was making it. I was told 'typical jw won't let her dd try a bit of sugar' and 'just fucking buy a cake and stop being so ridiculous'!

My dd had actually had things like fairy cakes and biscuits etc at toddler groups so I wasn't an extremist at all.

Other people's parenting styles are up to them and some people are just so rude with their opinions! I don't think yabu as I wouldn't buy a 6 month old chocolate either. I'm allowing some this year (she's 15 months) but only a small bit! She doesn't like getting her teeth brushed so they're never properly cleaned atm. I want to protect her until she's able to maintain a bit of oral hygiene as much as anything else!

Here's a pic of her yummy sugar free cake

*wanda+ a taste of chocolate isn't a whole Easter Egg.

A taste of chocolate is a taste of chocolate, probably less than the size of a chocolate button.

My kids are 12 and five. I can know their Easter eggs will still be around in 6 months time. They get one off us and one off my parents. We are militant about it. But neither of them would sit and gorge on it or eat it over the space of a couple of days.

I don't get all the 'if you give kids chocolate they will become fussy eaters' where is the proof of that?

My kids had chocolate young. Can't remember exactly. Neither are picky eaters. My sil was very careful, her Ds didn't have any until he was two. At around 13 months he became the pickiest eater I have ever seen. Barely eats anything and he is almost four now.....and still picky.

That's not proof refusing to kids your kids chocolate makes them picky. Because two things happened it doesn't mean one caused the other. Or that the same happens with all kids.

Some people are more relaxed with this. Some aren't, that's all there is too it. Personally I think the majority of parents are good parents and making the decision that suits them.