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Junk Food and Little Kids |
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by kaymcl  (December 2006) (rank 242nd) |
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Angel 1984 asked for advise on this subject and that prompted me to tell my advise.
Is'nt it amazing how when you have a child everyone will tell you how to raise it! Normaly I took this in my stride,but when my own family and in-laws started saying that
I was cruel not to give my toddler junk food it was alot harder to ignore.
I had gone to alot of trouble during my pregnancy to eat and drink carefully to give my child the best start and as far as I was concerned there was no reason to stop.
As toddlers,our children have only us to guide them, why would we introduce foods and drinks that can harm them? I was berrated for not feeding hot chips,Coke and other fizzy drinks and not giving him desserts at every meal! I held out until my Son's 11th Birthday for the Coke and it became something he looked forward to,a sort of right of Passage and we had a Coke Party with a cake shaped like a bottle of Coke. He is now 16 and drinks it occasionaly along with other fizzy drinks,but water and milk are his main drinks. I was not so strong against my own Father who at every chance would sneek him Chips and others who did the same. By the time he was 4 he was eating all foods although I did try to keep the junk food under control to some extent. What does he love now.....Junk Food!!
So my advise to all in that situation currently..Hold out as much and as long as you can. If I had it to do again I would not give in and would be much harder on my family in this regard.Our Kids are bombarded constantly from outside our homes with Junk Food, Our Families must support the parents to keep the Junk Food for when they are older and then only occasionaly.
