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if oyu give oyur kids no sugar or sweets ever

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LadyCodofCOdford · 04/06/2006 22:39

what do you do when they get older?
i mean do you stop them till they are 18 secretly scoffing choc when they are in bed
do you give them vgradual exposure ot it like a drug meanign that the sweets become a sought after object of desire

or what

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LadyCodofCOdford · 04/06/2006 22:51

really good then>

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TheHonArfy · 04/06/2006 22:51

I always think I must be a shite mummy because DD (18 months) is on occasion allowed chocolate/ice cream etc. (in fact she ate most of a starbucks muffin on Saturday as I felt so sorry for her and her wobbly tooth)
noone else I know seems to allow their babies to have such evil things....

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LadyCodofCOdford · 04/06/2006 22:51

NQC
ponce!
gievt hem a shrimp

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mears · 04/06/2006 22:52

oops

Rowlers · 04/06/2006 22:52

MIL gave DD an Easter Egg.
Nowt wrong with that, true. (IMO)
The monster couldn't get the wrapper off quick enough, rammed the whole thing in her mouth and literally shook with rage if any of us tried to remove it as she chomped her way through the whole thing in around 30 seconds flat.
Twas very funny.
I haven't taught her to like chocolate. She had a teensy bit one day and that was it.

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LadyCodofCOdford · 04/06/2006 22:52

no arfy it smore evidenc ehtat mn mums are not normal

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NotQuiteCockney · 04/06/2006 22:52

A shrimp? What is that?

(He likes squid, and moules ...)

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LadyCodofCOdford · 04/06/2006 22:52

lol rowlers

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 04/06/2006 22:52

Banning would never work in the long term, obviously.

That said, I dont allow people to give my DD those awful Haribo sweets though. They send her utterly loopy and while i still have to deal with that i'll say no. I personally dont see that its a necessary treat for a 3 year old to give them sweets anyway.

Depends what a child deems as a treat though i suppose. My DD goes mad for raisins. And, er, Ham.......

Im under no illusion that her tastes will most likely change and when she is subject to peer pressure etc etc then she will probably want to spend pocket money on sweets. Thats fine by me - if she's old enough to go and buy them then she is old enough to understand moderation etc.

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LadyCodofCOdford · 04/06/2006 22:52

oh am going ot go
have ben out ponced by NQC

a shrimp si a lovely englishs weet

arf

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NotQuiteCockney · 04/06/2006 22:53

Will ask DH. Are they like those vile vile vile mice? Ugh.

I'm not that big a fan of sweets per se.

TheHonArfy · 04/06/2006 22:54

well I wasn't allowed sweets and chocolae much when small and hence became a greedy pig in later life - am paying for it now by being a bit of a lardarse. so am trying not to repeat the mistake with DD.

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LadyCodofCOdford · 04/06/2006 22:54

\link{http://www.villagesweetshop.com/showprod_FAV04.htm\no me neither btu these are great}

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Skribble · 04/06/2006 22:54

I would be worried that kids grow up with weird attitudes towards food if you have strict bans on anything, everything in moderation.

My kids get fizzy drink, choclate, cakes, biscuits and sweets. Just not all the time. Relax FGS.

chjlly · 04/06/2006 22:54

my ds & dd will occasionally have chocolate but don't have fruity sweets as ds will respond that they have too much sugar in them as they had a dental nurse visit the nursery and tell them about sugar in sweets & stuff! My friend was shocked when she first heard his response!!

misdee · 04/06/2006 22:55

my neice very very rarely got sweet things when younger, one day she was round here and all the kids have choccie do-nuts, so i gave her one, OMG i have never seen a do-nut disappear so fast!

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LadyCodofCOdford · 04/06/2006 22:55

yes alhto tow of mine dont like the bubbles in fizz
odd eh
( wistful memeories of french holidays drinking orangina)

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NotQuiteCockney · 04/06/2006 22:55

DH is explaining shrimps. They sound like they involve artificial flavours and colours, and hence are Not My Thing.

(Saturday, we were heading across town, and were hungry. We stopped and agreed to buy a snack. DS1 automatically wanted the most garish scary crisps in the place, and only calm insistance on my part got him around to ready salted.)

Rowlers · 04/06/2006 22:55

I think I would draw the line at Wham bars though. Do they still do them? Those fizzy bits rot your teeeth in a nanosecond.

Bozza · 04/06/2006 22:55

Well I don't have crisps in the house. Because if I do I will eat them. Witness my earlier scoffing of a packet of s&v hula hoops left over from trip to Scotland.

We have currently been doing stickers for potty training but am contemplating a trip to the shop incorporated into the school run because I am sick of sticking them back on with double sided tape.

hunkermunker · 04/06/2006 22:55

DS1 was also eating piglets yesterday. You'd probably know them better as twiglets Grin

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LadyCodofCOdford · 04/06/2006 22:56

space dust too
wow

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TheHonArfy · 04/06/2006 22:56

yes I became quite obsessed with sweets
my nieces aren't allowed anything really, do remember one of my birthdays when the elder one (then about 4) came over and couldn't concentrate on anything because there was a cake present and her eyes were fixed on it

of course they always go to parties and end up being sick because they get overexcited and stuff their faces with crap

NotQuiteCockney · 04/06/2006 22:56

I am quite strict, but I don't make my kids refuse anything. If someone offers something, they can have it. I just don't give them stuff I don't like.

Rowlers · 04/06/2006 22:57

CAn you still get space dust? Coloured sugar in a bag. Yum.