WHEN YOUR LITTLE one is young, they’re something of a blank slate. Eating habits start early on, so it’s natural you might want to keep your child away from sugar for a while.
That said, not everyone will feel the same particularly relatives who are keen to show their affection with treats and gifts. So what do you do when the in-laws won’t listen to your requests to keep sugar off the table?. A mother wrote: Am I being a bad parent… by asking my in-laws not to give my child sugar? My daughter is almost one.
She’s a huge eater, we’ve never had a problem getting her to finish her food. I try to keep her away from refined sugar of any sort.
Every so often she might get some sweets, but 99% of the time her treats are fruit or veggies. She doesn’t really know sugar exists yet and I want to keep it that way for another year or two.
BUT any time I mention this to my in-laws they start making ‘jokes’ about us depriving her and they proceed to offer her treats anyways.
Am I being unreasonable to ask them to stop giving her sugar?
What do you think?
