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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2220744" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>It all depends how you present things to your kids.</p><p></p><p>telling them ‘no!’ in a party atmosphere with kids around them stuffing treats just makes you a mean party pooper in front of everyone - and look, they already learned to sneak food and hide it from you.</p><p></p><p>I was brought up in a household where food and sweet things were rigidly controlled (both parents had adopted wartime rationing as an ongoing life choice). All it achieved was a sense of massive deprivation and resentment in both myself and my sister.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately ANY food choices your children learn to apply must be their own choice. I would strongly urge you to think long and hard about the way you encourage them to make good choices.</p><p></p><p>Asking kids that age to make reasoned adult healthy choices in the face of party atmosphere and peer pressure is not going to happen.</p><p></p><p>Also, if they are also witnessing discord between you and your husband over this, then they will inevitably align themselves with the permissive, encouraging parent, not the restrictive denying parent. That is just human nature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2220744, member: 41816"] It all depends how you present things to your kids. telling them ‘no!’ in a party atmosphere with kids around them stuffing treats just makes you a mean party pooper in front of everyone - and look, they already learned to sneak food and hide it from you. I was brought up in a household where food and sweet things were rigidly controlled (both parents had adopted wartime rationing as an ongoing life choice). All it achieved was a sense of massive deprivation and resentment in both myself and my sister. Ultimately ANY food choices your children learn to apply must be their own choice. I would strongly urge you to think long and hard about the way you encourage them to make good choices. Asking kids that age to make reasoned adult healthy choices in the face of party atmosphere and peer pressure is not going to happen. Also, if they are also witnessing discord between you and your husband over this, then they will inevitably align themselves with the permissive, encouraging parent, not the restrictive denying parent. That is just human nature. [/QUOTE]
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