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To demand fruit first

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Rixera · 20/12/2016 09:41

My 19 month old DD seems to think so.
She has become a fruit rejecting, veg scorning, biscuit eating monster.
She demanded a biscuit. I offered a selection of fruit. She asked for an apple. I peeled it for her. She demanded a biscuit. I said have some apple first.

Nearly an hour on she is bright red and still howling, we are both covered in her snot, and she is still clutching the apple, licked but unbitten. I am holding firm. No biscuits until she has at least had a bite of her fruit.

AIBU? Should I just give her the sodding biscuit?

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LBOCS2 · 22/12/2016 00:18

I don't think that it necessarily has to be a one before the other thing. If DD1 asks for a biscuit, I'll mentally tot up what she has eaten that day, how much sweet stuff she's had and make a decision on that basis. It's a yes/no question. If it's a yes, then she's given a biscuit (or a tree chocolate, current favourite...) without conditions attached. If it's a no, I'll say that if she's hungry she can have toast, a sandwich, an apple, grapes, banana, etc. I just don't make one conditional on the other. That way she can kick off about it (and she really can!) and I can just walk away. It doesn't become a battle of wills.

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