What things do you not let your DC have that others parents do.

[lovingmy2]

Just intersted really.

My DS is in reception (nearly 5) and all his friends and cousins around similar age have a TV in their rooms but both DH and I refuse to let him have one. He goes up to bed at half six, I read him a story and then he can choose a book to look at (read) before i go back in at 7:15pm to take it off him (usually he has fallen asleep with book on face).

We don't let him play out on the front (even though we live on a close) without me sitting on my chair with him when all the other children on the close are allowed.

We don't let him brush his own teeth either although recently we have let him start brushing them and we finish them off.

DSs are 10 & 7

No TVs in room (but have one in 'family' room
Only 1/2 'screen time' a day - if homework/chores done etc
No overage DVDs for DS2, unless we've seen them first

No Coca-Cola - but allow Lemonade/Orangina if out at a restaurant

No toy guns

Limited sweets/chocolate etc and no 'free access' - must ask first

No mobile phone for DS1 (yet)

My ds is too young yet, but I find this interesting. I wasn't allowed junk food, anything with e numbers etc when a kid. When I went to uni I lived off spaghetti hoops, angel delight and coke for weeks- oh and white bread. It was all so exciting.

So apart from aspartame, I am adopting an "everything in moderation" attitude.

I used to gorge myself on white bread and coco-pops when I stayed at friend's houses!

Kids are 8,6,3 and about to be born!

They aren't allowed;
Tvs in rooms
Any TV on a weekday
TV with adverts
Any games systems/DS/Wii etc
Fizzy drinks

no fruit and veg
no milk
only inappropriate dvds

DC's 6 and 9.

No tv in rooms. (We have a spare telly in our room which they can watch if telly is commandeered by DH).

No tv/wii/ds without asking (and usually after rooms are tidy, homework done, music practise etc). Plus it goes off after a reasonable amount of time (which in all honesty can be anything between 15 minutes and 3 hours depending on how much peace I want).

No 'branded' foods - ie cartoon character flourescent yoghurts etc.

Veg/salad with every meal.

No sweets without permission and not more than once every couple of days (they both have a huge 'secret stash' of sweeties' which I have control over - stuff from Christmas/Easter etc which tends to last for ages).

Slarty -

am i the only person in the world not to have heard of (let alone banned) aspartamane?

Mine are 6 and 8. They are allowed pretty much everything except:

artificial sweeteners
computer games
TV/computers in bedrooms (over my dead body until they leave home)
mobiles (not an issue yet, admittedly)

isittooearly: it's in all those oh-so-healthy 'tooth-friendly' drinks. I'm not fussy generally - my DCs have their fair share of Coke and sweets and general rubbish - but I wouldn't give them anything with aspartame in it. Google it!

will do! is it the reason fruitshoots are considered by many as the work of the devil?

Partly, yes. It's not in all of them, but you need to check the individual labels.

(AntoinetteOuradi -- aspartame is in regular Coke too. In fact it's in pretty much all brand name fizzy drinks except, IIRC, regular Dr Pepper. I have no idea why they make fizzy drinks with both sugar and artificial sweeteners in, unless they are trying to piss off absolutely everyone)

DD is 5,
tv or computer games in her bedroom.
ds (I've already been told I'm a meanie )
artificial sweeteners
branded foods - there's no way she's getting spongebob crumpets

we do have a wii on our solitary tv, but she only gets to go on that if it's too wet to play outside and if she's been REALLY good.

no fizzy drinks at home, and sweets only in the evening (and most nights I forget)

Reading this I feel really strict, and she still gets away with more than I ever did!

Is aspartame really in regular coke as well? Blimey.

I have just got really interested in this, as I have just given up diet coke (I used to drink shedloads) and have lost a tonne of weight and loads of other hideous side effects such as excessive thirst, panics, anxiety, anger (which I didn't actually know were due to the diet cokeuntil previously) have gone. Aspartame seems pernicious stuff.

yes and it is banned in America!

No TV in bedrooms (but they have computers with internet access, so not exactly sure how useful that is as a rule)
No white bread
No fizzy drinks of any description - in fact no drinks other than water, milk or freshly squeezed juice
No gum
No fast food
No breakfast cereals

I don't approve of TVs in bedrooms at all. There is one in the house, it's in one of the downstairs rooms, and it's switched off a lot...

I have banned aspartame and Disney Princess ware. And too much pink crap in general. Actually, dd (2.6-ish) is not as yet interested in pink/princess stuff, but I am presently brooding about the possibility that it might be inevitable.

No TVs in bedrooms here 10,8,4,7months
A friend with 2 children has 5 tvs in her house

No food without asking except fruit and veg and cereal in the morning.

No wii but they aren't interested to be fair.

We have DSs.Which I think they play an appropriate amount. (ie. lies in the cupboard alot)

They do watch too much TV.

No Dr Who as I think it would freak them out.

Only films/game that are age appropriate.

Lots of exercise.

Bad manners...

Can't abide them. Although I exhibit them myself sometimes, especially on here.

Dd is 4.

No TV in her bedroom, no fizzy drinks (I have let her try once as I knew she wouldn't like)

I am about to ban chupa chups - her best friend's mum is giving my dd a steady diet of chupa chups and ice lollies!

No Buffy the Vampire Slayer (don't ask).

We have a Wii and some fab age appropriate, nay, even educational games, but she's not too bothered so I play them.

I don't want her to play out on the street ever if I'm honest. Not around here! Not being snobby, 'here' is a huge amount better than where I come from.

Dh does not like branded stuff on clothes, she does have 1 pair tom and jerry pyjamas though.

I do not want to do princesse ware [bad mummy]

Do you actively encourage good manners though? I caught myself telling ds off remonstrating gently with DS for not remembering to offer me the gravy thereby making me ask for it ...

No MacDonalds (DH lets DD aged 3.8, but not if i am there).
No coke.
No fruitshoots.
Not allowed to wear high (or any kind of heels, bikinis or anything else of a more adult nature (other than the fun mini princess shoes with heels in her fancy dress box at home, cant walk more than 2 yards in them).
No make up, even for pretend.
No TV without asking, if it goes on without asking, it is turned off for the rest of the day.
No late nights more than once a week, as it makes DD go wild for days.

Other than that, pretty liberal in our parenting, DD can do/have most things, in moderation. She has a tv in her own room at aged 3.8, but not with tv hooked up. it is to watch a DVD when she/we want some quiet time or if i am up there with her tidying up. She uses it rarely, she never asks, and more often she watches it as a treat in our room snuggled in bed, she can have sweets and chocolates whenever she likes, and again she hardly ever asks, so we rarely have to say no, because of that, she usually gets some when she does ask, and usually only a bit of ours.

Quattro, it's about the only thing I actually enforce with any vigour.

To be fair, she's on 2.7 but I already let her have Lelli Kelly shoes and don't really give a stuff about character clothing, etc.

She can charm her way into/out of anything however and I suspect my insistance on these manners will shortly be my undoing. She's already learned that being v polite, etc, at nursery gets her exactly what she wants. I may be creating a manipulative monster.

No Disney princess stuff here, it has never been asked for (DD is 4), we have never watched much Disney and stick to things like Jungle Book so have managed to avoid it pretty much and intend to carry on avoiding it.

Food is everything in moderation, although I won't buy anything with sweeteners in. I was brought up fairly strictly foodwise, and as someone else said, rebelled big time when I left home, eating takeaways and junk galore. Took me years and years to feel I wanted to eat wholemeal bread again.

My DD adores princess stuff. She has never watched anything disney princess related, but she has lots of books about princesses, she is big on princess and princes and getting married by kings and queens, and so therefore when she sees something disney princess in the shops or similar she loves it because its a princess, rather than being 'disney princess' and I have absolutely no problem at all with her having princess stuff She is more 'fairy princess' and loves pink (not encouraged, just does). Why on earth not? She is only a little girl once. Soon she will be into Emo or whatever miserable fashion has taken its place and i will not see her looking pretty and pink again til probably her own wedding if I am anything to go by!

Re Princesses: DD loves pink, and we let her have mostly pink clothes, and lots of pink stuff generally, it's partly just part of the general dislike for branded products for me, whether its Ben 10 or Ariel and partly because I just think thay are yuck myself. If she was desperate for it, I would let her have it, but am not going to buy it of my own accord