Do you give your 15 mo lollipops/ boiled sweets?

[matana]

We don't. Our choice. He has the occasional bit of chocolate as a treat.

AIBU not to give him them/ ask other people not to? My opinion is that as he gets older i won't be able to stop him at parties and things, and wouldn't want to, but at the moment they're inappropriate and he's too little.

Any views?

no. choking hazard.
TBH i only let my five year old have them when she's sitting nicely and i can watch her out of the corner of my eye.

No!

YANBU. Who are these people foisting a boiled sweet on a 15MO?

I moan about Baby Goo being given too many biscuits!

I don't give them to my 5 yo. My dsd used to give lollipops to her baby in his pushchair to keep him quiet - strangely enough he has more fillings than teeth!

I was in hospital when I was a child. My parents got friendly with the parents of a 10 year old boy who had suffered brain damage as a result of choking on a hard lollipop.

I'd never let my DDs have them now, even as they get older. I wish they weren't given them when the bill comes at restaurants. I know its an act of kindness and I feel so mean not letting them have them, but I'm so paranoid about lollipops.

I don't give them to my 13 year old, so no!

No. I'm just about ready to give my 20 month old her first soft sweet.

Thanks for the vote of confidence

Went to seaside with sister and bil at weekend and their DD. From the minute we arrived bil started banging on about giving our DS candyfloss. I said it's pure spun sugar and i didn't want him having any. Next thing he appears with DS with a lollipop in his mouth. DH asked him to take it away from him as we didn't want him having it (for me it's the choking hazard and for DH it's the sugar). He ignored him. At which point my DH told him in no incertain terms to take it away from him and stop undermining us. He threw a strop and now keeps making digs about us not letting him have sweets. He thinks we are overly strict and i suppose not 'cool' or 'fun'.

This from the man who's 2.5 yo DD walked outside with a cigarette in her mouth at the weekend....

Sorry to rant but i am I am trying to rise above his pathetic comments by not reacting.

No! Not for the sugar so much, once in a while that wouldn't bother me - but the choking hazard

Your BIL sounds a treat :(

No. At that age a few choc buttons out of an Easter egg at most (eat the rest yourself).

They sell them behind the bar at the cricket club so my teenage sons buy them vile things.

NO! Did you not see the TV programme tonight about kids with rotten teeth?

No way. I'm quite relaxed about food but my DS doesn't have biscuits, cakes ice cream, crisps, sweets or chocolate regularly. If we are at someone's house and they offer a biscuit or bit of cake he'll try it, but he's only just learning about all the foods out there and I don't see the necessity for these things being part of everyday (or every week) diet.

I don't eat these things every day (or even every week) so I don't see why a child, who is growing, should need to either.

No. My 4yo only has a lolly if someone puts one in a sodding party bag and DH has brought her home I'm not quick enough. I'd never buy them, or skittles, Haribo etc. All too sticky and boiled sweets a choking hazard. Plenty of other nice things without those.

No. I kind of figure that at the moment (18mo) DS really shows no desire or interest in sweet foods other than raisins and those fruit bars, so why introduce them, especially as he's a nightmare with teeth brushing? I know it'll all change once he's old enough to know what the coloured wrappers in the 7/11 are, but dont see the harm in putting it off until then.

No biscuits, sweets, cakes or crisps at 2.2 y.o. Like you, I realise he'll get them at parties and things, but we're not planning to introduce them into his diet, just as I try hard not to include them in my diet too often.

We have asked other people not to get him things like that e.g. family members have offered him chocolate and we've said no thanks.

not as routine but our local shopkeeper has given DD a lollipop (sugar free) which i let her play with it and chew it under supervision. However this has only happened twice and i wouldn't buy her one.

I'm terrified of boiled sweets and lollipops! Never can understand how people can be so blaze about it.
I won't allow even my 2 year old a lolly pop, and my almost 5 year old only if she's sitting niceley.

Sometimes I see other children at parties running around climbing with a lolly pop in their mouth, makes my heart skip a beat!

She has had it drummed in to her that lollies and sweets are only to be eaten when being still.

Couldn't give a damn if people think I'm being precious.

btw story in the news in London I think, recently, about toddler chocking on a marshmallow and dying after a sunday lunch in a pub.

Never considered marshmallows as dangerous before!

Maybe a little packet of milky buttons or something similar but I'd be with you on the boiled sweets/lollipop front.

boiled sweets and the lollies on a stick sweets are one of the few things that freak me out! My baby is 14 and I would still tell him to be careful with a boiled sweet

...and i am very laissez faire normally!

i agree about boiled sweets, choking hazards, unnecessary sugar overload etc

but there might be a downside to never exposing your kids to refined sugars..

ds1 never ate processed foods, sweets, shop bought biscuits, cakes etc as i was very conscious of not exposing him to unnecessary sweet 'treats', he loved fruit so he had something sweet in his diet i thought

but he was of course given biscuits and cakes at the very first round of birthdays and playdates and unfortunately his poor stomach couldn't tolerate the refined sugars and oils and he vomited everywhere, very distressing for him and everyone!
all through his younger years he had sweets after school only on fridays and never asked for them other times but then since his teens he is a sugar addict, so make of that what you will

so with other dc's i have allowed occasional biscuit, cadbury finger etc from earlier maybe 18m-2yrs..but now i realise they have the same sensitivity for fried foods.. i took 4yr old to mcdonalds for breakfast as we were in town early and i 'nostalgically' thought it would be a 'treat' but a couple of bites of hash brown and vomited, also with fish and chips from chip shop..

so my cautionary tale would be to expose your kids earlier to foods which they will be expected to enjoy in a group situation, as part of our british culture i guess

No. My sister kindly gave dd one when she was just 3 (now 3 1/2) it was her first one. I decided to let her have it under my constant supervision. Wasn't comfortable with it at all but thought I'd let her for a treat.

DS is 3 in a couple of weeks and he's never had any sweets. Chocolate, yes (he seems to have inherited DH's chocoholic tendencies) but I've so far managed to keep him away from lollies/haribo/chewy sweets.

I probably looked very pfb at the toddler group Christmas party when I confiscated the mini pack of star mix from his party bag, but I don't care. He's got years ahead of him to develop a taste for sugary crap, while I'm still in charge he's not having it.

first It's because cheese is alkaline so it neutralises the plaque acid that rots teeth

I know raisins are bad, but I figure that at least they have some nutritional value, You are right though. I do need to be careful until DS accepts that tooth brushing is not optional

Reassuringly unanimous! So i'm not a food nazi or jeopardising my son's enjoyment of life?

God no.

I only let my 8yr old have them if I glue her to her seat she sits still.

It's one of my bug bears the amount of parents who give boiled lolly sweets when it's their child birthday at school.