Kids.Woot: The Community: World of Kids.Woot: Poll: Sugar and your child:

Jan 9, 2013 12:00 AM
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Poll: Sugar and your child:

14.3% - Yes, any time they ask for it. 106
27.5% - Yes, but only after school and on Saturdays. 203
34.1% - Yes, but super-rarely. 252
9.9% - Yes, as long as I don't find out about it. 73
14.2% - No, never. The end. THE. END. 105

739 votes

Well, how do you fare compared to the Zeitgeist? Chat up your fellow wooters and let us know how lame this poll was or what obvious choices we missed. For example: Was this poll a) STUPID, b) DUMB, c) POINTLESS or d) ALL OF THE ABOVE?

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Tattle

Jan 9, 2013 7:16 AM
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boomn4x4

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My 4 year old gets a sucker for the car ride home from preschool if he doesn't get any time outs.

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Tattle

Jan 9, 2013 9:16 AM
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MommaBeary

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I would say super rarely, BUT my child is a master at sneaking sugar.

He used to "hide" the evidence behind the entertainment center in the basement. When I first realized this, and found his "stash", the pile-o-wrappers was 4-6" deep!!!!!

Did I mention this was all consumed in about a 2 week perios?????

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Tattle

Jan 9, 2013 11:30 AM
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dontwantaname

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This worked for me.

I saw a few kids obsessed with sugar, because their parents were total health food nuts and never allowed the kids to have any candy or soda.

What I did was just not have it in the house. If the kids were at a party, they had soda and candy.
If they were eating with me, it wasn't offered to them.

Since it wasn't forbidden, they didn't realize how little they had.

I have to admit, I like candy, so it was more the soda that we did this with. But it would work with candy too.

When they grew up, I asked them if they noticed they hardly ever had soda. They didn't.
If I had forbid it, they would have realized.