to be fed-up my mum wants to feed DS choc and now moved onto pop???

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DS is 12mo, as soon as he cut his first tooth at 6mo, mum said "ooh, we can give you choccies now". i said firmly, no, we're not giving him chocolate yet. she looked at me like I was most peculiar and couldn't understand why, despite me trying to explain that we just want him to know good healthy eating habits and he can have chocolate when we can't avoid it anymore - ie, when he sees other kiddies eating it and wants some too. (I should add at this point, last easter at 3wks old, he got 5 easter eggs!)

He's not the biggest eater and we just about manage to get 3 meals a day in him now, somedays he won't always eat one of his meals, so I certainly don't want him filling up on chocolate and eating even less food.

So, today when I was at her house, i offered DS a drink out of his cup (water, not that I said have some water, so she didn't actually know what was in it even!) and she said "Oh when is your mummy going to give you fizzy pop in there?" so i said in a fairly jokey manner "Why are you determined to ruin his teeth?" to which she replied "Well he'll do it himself when he grows up, so why not now?"

anybody else managed to deal with this succesfully without falling out with their mum??? I'm honestly not a "my baby will only eat bean sprouts" kind of mum (no offence to anybody who does just feed their baby beansprouts of course ), but i just don't see the need to give him chocolate at the moment - I see my niece at 5, still not eating proper meals and demanding pot noodle and chocolate for lunch and it's not what i want for my baby! So, AIBU???

I have the same problem with my MIL. I told her (and continually remind her) that we are teaching them healthy eating and that there is plenty of time for that when they are older.

DS is 6 and PREFERS to drink milk or water. DD is 8 and is allowed lemonade as a treat, but MIL is always offering her lemonade "if mummy says its OK". Mummy usually said "no it isn't", unless its a special occasion.

She pisses me off sometimes with the stuff she comes out with.

My Mum has got the message re chocolate, she will bring it as a treat but then it goes in the "princess box" to be rationed out at later dates. They usually get comics now instead.

That said, she does like to bring them Thorntons chocolate lollipops, they have about 50g of chocolate in them, but last week both of the tops of the lollies had broken off! So they only had about half each, can't imagine how that happened.