My diet is not perfect, but I am trying. I am better with what the girls eat, but it's still far from ideal. I am not an ogre, when there is the occasional birthday cake at school or the occasional sausage sizzle at a gala day I let the girls join in. It is a TREAT. This means they do not get dessert every night, or something in their lunch box everyday. A TREAT may be only once a month or every 2 weeks. When it is all the time/constantly it is no longer a TREAT!! I try to make some "fun' foods e.g pikelets, muffins etc but I mostly keep the fruit bowls filled and the girls have free run with these.
I think most people now have the mindset of "kids eat junk", or if you don't give your child these "treats" you are depriving them of something.
At the moment I feel like I'm being continually undermined by the girls dad. He'll turn up on saturday mornings to take us dancing and he'll hand them a hash brown. Or he'll wait until I'm somewhere else and hand them crap. Or my personal favourite he'll ask if they can have x. When I say no he hands it to them anyway!! This is driving me nuts. I have no idea what to do about this as he knows if they are already eating it I can't really take it off them...Can I?
I've tried explaining why I'm doing what I'm doing, but he seems to have the opinion that if they don't have "treats" they are missing out. At least that's where I think he's coming from. Any ideas for what to do?
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