Is anyone else out there bothered that you cannot go anywhere without your kids (or yourself) being offered candy or see giant displays of candy? While I do love junk food, I have some small sense of self control. More importantly, I understand the connection between eating candy and obesity. My children, particularly 3-year old Ben, do not understand this concept yet.
Complete a one-hour gymnastics class? Lollipop!
Find the hidden object at the library? Lollipop!
Doing any banking? Lollipop!
Go to the gym? Pretzel rod! (yes, not technically candy)
Grocery checkout line? Full candy display!
Buying office supplies at Stapes? Full candy display and/or lollipop!
Enter any store? Candy! Chips!
I am really tired of always the "mean" mom that has to say NO NO NO NO NO NO all the time and fruitlessly trying to explain about how eating healthy gives you a healthy body. Of course Ben doesn't care about being healthy yet, he's 3. He just wants a lollipop. We just got back from the LIBRARY where Ben just had a total meltdown about me not letting him have a lollipop. Candy at the library? Isn't food in the library against one of the cardinal book rules anyway?? Of course we got the mean library lady glares. Since Abby was in the middle of checking out her books, the glares went on and on and on. And, worse, now that Ben knows there are lollipops at the library, I can look forward to this particular temper tantrum each and every time we go to the library for the foreseeable future. Fabulous.
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