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what bad habits did you let your child develop before realising it

14 replies

TheLadyVanishes · 17/08/2006 10:06

mine has got to be letting her snack whenever she wanted (and she is only 13.5mths) and then when she wouldn't eat lunch/dinner i would be tearing my hair out! not anymore tho and I only allowed it coz she needs fattening up

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gigwig · 17/08/2006 10:22

Watching videos at meal-times.

Tinker · 17/08/2006 10:24

Feeding her to sleep...

spiceoflife · 17/08/2006 10:26

helping self to food from the cupboard...bl**dy cheerios in every room of the house

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Pomi · 17/08/2006 15:23

Mine watch cebebies with their meals but i realised from the begining that i was doing the wrong thing. i let them because they eat better like this.

expatinscotland · 17/08/2006 15:26

Sending her to bed w/a cup of water.

We started it when she had a bad chest infection and was coughing up a lot.

10 months on she still has it.

tortoiseshell · 17/08/2006 15:27

Oh so many. Eating in front of the telly (though we've now stopped that), ds1 going to sleep in our bed (we let him once to listen to a CD, now it's every night, so we have to carry him back to his own bed). Ds1 helping himself to food.

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CheesyFeet · 17/08/2006 16:38

Dd (2.1) goes to bed with a drink. I didn't think that was a bad habit tbh, because so do I! It means that she doesn't make a fuss if she wakes up thirsty.

OTOH, she sometimes eats in front of the telly and I know that's a Bad Thing.

Tutter · 17/08/2006 16:39

eating in front of the tv. even bought an expensive mini lcd tv for the kitchen .

he's only 14mo and we've created a nightmare for ourselves, but it's the only way to get him to eat.

MerlinsBeard · 17/08/2006 16:40

eating with the telly on
but in my own defence, they eat better and to compensate his manners are lovely

ja9 · 17/08/2006 16:41

sleeping with his dummy...

if he can't find it when he wakes up in the night, he calls us til we come in.

and we'll do just about anything for sleep.

sorkycake · 17/08/2006 16:42

Not taking the dummy off him before he fell asleep, he's now 2.8 and though he doesn't have one at all during the day, he wouldn't be able to go straight to sleep if he didn't have one in the night. We know he squirrels them away around the house as well if he gets the chance.
I actually think NOBODY has the right idea with the taking the dummy away before they go to sleep and now wish we had.

Twinkie1 · 17/08/2006 16:43

Inly eating fecking sausages!!

Tutter · 17/08/2006 16:44

oops, forgot about dummies. but he only has it at night.

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