to call raisins sweeties?

[biddysmama]

does it really matter?

my mum insists on telling dd (14 months)they are not sweeties when other children are having sweets and she asks for some! and offers her real sweets

I do it too with dd (2.5). Technically, yes, treats is probably a better term. Actually DD started calling them sweets with no prompting from us, no idea where she got it from, but I don't mind as she doesn't get any other sweets. Recently she's started caling them sweetie raisins, which imo is exactly what they are!

Oh right, I didn't realise the Lazy Town connection to the term 'sports candy', thanks for clearing that up!

My DS is only 13 weeks old and when I heard that woman say 'sports candy' I was about 35 weeks pregnant...

I still think it sounds silly though

My dentist calls raisins 'dental napalm'.

Grumpypants

"You too CAN have haribo - Funny Mix, Haribo, begetarian laydee"

NO!!!! Is this true? All these years of missing out??!!

I'm very overexcited now, off to the shop to investigate right away!!

The chocolate coated ones i do define as sweets but normal raisins without anything on the . They are not sweets but dried fruit. Odd to call them that when they are not, if they do not have anything on them.

The yoghurt barely qualifies as yoghurt though, it is sooooo sweet and sugary!

I'd be more concerned that your mum appears to be overriding you. My MIL did that with Rusks (me against, her for) when dd was 6m old. I was furious (still holding a grudge now

My ds (2.6) thinks rice cakes are biscuits. He has ordinary biscuits at playgroup but at home we have "one biscuit two biscuit"s. He calls them that cos I always give him 2, whereas at playgroup he only gets one. He thinks he's getting a good deal - sucker!!

Nothing wrong with calling raisins "sweeties". They're sweet.

Just to add, I would be mighty p'ed off with mum for introducing sweets just for the sake of it. Why give sweets to a kid who's happy with raisins?

My daughter thought for years that fish fingers were chicken nuggets!

But youghurt covered raisins are sweets - what else would you all them?

ordinary raisins are not sweets - why not call things by their proper names?

Another anti-raisin person here. Raisins are sweets hiding under the guise of being 'healthy'. Nothing could be further from the truth as far as children's teeth are concerned.

YANBU to call them sweets, as has already been said, raisons are sweets, they are pure sugar and unlike some sweet things (chocolate, biscuits) they cling to teeth, are difficult to brush off and cause tooth decay. So, I suppose I'm saying YABU to give them to your 14mo really, (I know I'm being judgey, but what's wrong with fresh grapes, blueberries, strawberries etc?)

larks - the price is what's wrong. Unless you catch these items in season, they are prohibitively expensive.

Blueberries for example are about £4 a punnet containg around 30 berries.

Raisins - we call them 'dead flies'.

In answer to the OP, I don't see the harm in calling them 'sweeties'. They're sweet, right? And just as tooth-rotting as caramel. So not much wrong in calling them 'sweeties'.

I'm sure your kids will still know the correct names for them anyway.

dd eats alot of fruit but she likes raisins as well especially blueberrys