I honestly don't remember how it was done when I was a child - of course I was an only child, so it was alot less complicated. I think I was allowed some limited Halloween night 'binging' but after that, it was one a day or some similar drip type deal.
Certainly we have dealt with past large candy infusions for the Boo by doling it out in individual pieces, one a day - but reading this thread, I am questioning that a little. It's hard to know if the message she's getting is "don't feel you need to eat it all now, there'll still be some tomorrow" or "don't bother disciplining yourself, mummy and daddy will do it for you".
Of course we're desperate to try and not make candy a big deal either, so she won't get to the point where she ascribes artificial value to candy over healthy foods because healthy foods are plentiful and junk is rare (cause that's sure not true in the real world!), but at the same time, she really will skip everything but the french fries in a meal if we're not careful - I don't want to give the fries the lure of the forbidden but I sure wish she'd eat some protein... ahhhh parenthood...
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Date: 2006-10-30 09:34 pm (UTC)Certainly we have dealt with past large candy infusions for the Boo by doling it out in individual pieces, one a day - but reading this thread, I am questioning that a little. It's hard to know if the message she's getting is "don't feel you need to eat it all now, there'll still be some tomorrow" or "don't bother disciplining yourself, mummy and daddy will do it for you".
Of course we're desperate to try and not make candy a big deal either, so she won't get to the point where she ascribes artificial value to candy over healthy foods because healthy foods are plentiful and junk is rare (cause that's sure not true in the real world!), but at the same time, she really will skip everything but the french fries in a meal if we're not careful - I don't want to give the fries the lure of the forbidden but I sure wish she'd eat some protein... ahhhh parenthood...