if oyu give oyur kids no sugar or sweets ever

[LadyCodofCOdford]

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

Toffee bonbons

Thought you had the tin opener in your hand for a mo, Bubble Cocktail cherries and random yellow cubes of "fruit"...

Aaaaah fruit sala, I remember them at 8 for 1p.
(DH says he recalls 16 for 1p (well, 1d) but he's not really that old...)

Lemon bonbons.

I'm a victim of my own success - my DSs don't like sweets
We were at a local festival thing today and they were both offered a lolly and some dolly mixtures and they turned them down.
I'd love them to just try one!

oh yes lemon bonbons. Fab

you see, obsessed...

My own mother used to come home from work sometimes and completel;y manically set about making toffee or treacle toffee.
Not make us kiddies tea or anything
just toffee
She just had to have a fix.
I think we've all got a sweet tooth in our family.

Yes, Tommy, DS1's the same. Well, he is at the moment. Just says "noooooooooo" and looks at me like I'm trying to poison him.

Do you think it's a boy / girl thing?

Have not read rest of thread, only Cod's first posts.

I think that exposure is a good thing ... all in moderation. We have sweets and chocolate in the house that is only ever eaten regularly by DH - I am too weight conscious, DD isn't allowed very often and DS can take it or leave it. We still have most of our easter eggs left in the cupboard.

I try and avoid DD's contact as she is crap at eating her dinner ...
I know children who are banned all sweetstuff and positively salivate at the mere mention of chocolate at birthday parties etc ... they stuff themselves so full of sugar it is awful to watch ...

I think that if you wean them onto choc pudding from four months(!) then that's not a good plan.

Same as if you don't let them have chocolate till they leave home.

Bonkers.

Plan, Hunker?

Ah, yes, of course - anybody who gives chocolate pudding to a four-month-old baby hasn't the brains to plan anything

ds wont eat sweets.

because he has SN i am carefull what he eats as his behaviour is noticable of he has too many processed foods or additives etc. so now he just wont eat any. he will eat chocolate but i give it to him rarely.

DD is a beast who will eat anything you put in front of her!

HM!

Oh, it's just true, VVV

I cannot IMAGINE giving DS2 food. In fact, the idea of giving him anything even in six weeks' time is weird weird weird. OMG, in six weeks he will he HALF A YEAR old!

Ah, before you know it HM, he'll be shoving garden snails in his gob just like my DS

and [bleugh]

(made for a messy battle when trying to remove it from his mouth and i heard )

Planted more seeds today And DH mowed the lawn so it looks like a garden again...!

OK haven't read whole thread but thought I'd come in in defence of dentists
I am the daughter of two dentists!
True, we never bought crappy sweets from sweet shop but had a bit of chocolate every day, and often got really good chocolates from the chocolaterie, and mum would bake cakes every sunday, etc....
so not deprived, but taught to enjoy quality
although I do have the occasional crappy sweet now, but not bothered about them tbh
oth, dh was given pocket money to spend on sweets and has rotten teeth and a bad mint habit

dd gets homemade cakes and biscuits, as well as bought biscuits, good chocolate, and sweets, all in moderation, but there is no ban, and she is very reasonable

so here you are, a balanced daughter of dentists, bet you didn't think that existed

How do you define "good chocolate"? Green & Blacks?

god we love sweets chez Enid

yesterday dd1 had a peppermint aero, dd2 had a bag of magic stars and I had a refresher bar AND a pack of wine gums

Never really made a fuss of sweets in the early stages, you know all that choccy button stuff. I have a jar of sweets up high where he can see them but he honestly isnt particularly bothered. When I do give him a sweet he scoffs away at it like he hasnt seen food before, it is really quite entertaining

G&B is good choc yes, as is Cote d'Or (an old favourite....), or chocolate bars from a proper chocolaterie

I just jog his memory from time to time about foods that are not particularly healthy which include sweets in the hope he will make an informed decision when he is older.

lol have just seen cods link to refresher bars

they are SO good

I like the 'new' tropical ones too