Comments on: Easter + chocolate + kids = dilemmas for parents http://www.baby-log.com/my-baby-day-by-day/easter-chocolate-kids-dilemmas-for-parents/ Learning to be a Mother, Raise a Baby, Live as a Family Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:41:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Emma http://www.baby-log.com/my-baby-day-by-day/easter-chocolate-kids-dilemmas-for-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-5834 Emma Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:45:44 +0000 http://www.baby-log.com/?p=712#comment-5834 I agree, you can't affect everybody else but you can teach your child self control, you can set the rules. It seems like the only way. I agree, you can’t affect everybody else but you can teach your child self control, you can set the rules. It seems like the only way.

]]> By: LaToya http://www.baby-log.com/my-baby-day-by-day/easter-chocolate-kids-dilemmas-for-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-5787 LaToya Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:46:56 +0000 http://www.baby-log.com/?p=712#comment-5787 I have a no candy policy as well, my mother broke that when my first was around 15 months, she gave him a peppermint and has been giving them to him ever since. I don't keep candy in the house and generally my rule is that they can't have any. With my oldest in school during the mornings he got a ton of candy for Valentine's Day and I let him have one peice that day and one the next day and then threw the rest in the trash. Just because he gets it doesn't mean that he can have it. And I only allow hard candy at that. I usually tell the family no candy, and I make sure to check gifts before it even gets to him so I can take out what he can't have. I've learned that you can't always control what people are going to give your children but you can control what YOU give your kids. My mom knows that she can give my son 1 peppermint when she sees him at church and (so far) hasn't tried to cross the line. Everyone else either gets their feelings hurt or I just take the candy away before my son sees it. I have a no candy policy as well, my mother broke that when my first was around 15 months, she gave him a peppermint and has been giving them to him ever since. I don’t keep candy in the house and generally my rule is that they can’t have any. With my oldest in school during the mornings he got a ton of candy for Valentine’s Day and I let him have one peice that day and one the next day and then threw the rest in the trash. Just because he gets it doesn’t mean that he can have it. And I only allow hard candy at that. I usually tell the family no candy, and I make sure to check gifts before it even gets to him so I can take out what he can’t have.

I’ve learned that you can’t always control what people are going to give your children but you can control what YOU give your kids. My mom knows that she can give my son 1 peppermint when she sees him at church and (so far) hasn’t tried to cross the line. Everyone else either gets their feelings hurt or I just take the candy away before my son sees it.

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