I once knew these parents who caught their children squeezing toothpaste into their mouths in the bathroom. They strictly controlled the children's diet, and I think sweets were never allowed in the house. Henni gets very little sweets on a regular day. She may once in a while get 4 or 5 animal crackers as her afternon snack along with a small box of raisins. We bribe her with candies to get her to drink medicine if we have to, but for the most part, getting sweets is a real treat in our house. Scott and I are not real dessert people ourselves, and we don't see the need to indulge in a lot of sweets. Scott celebrated his 38th birthday about a week ago, and these are the pictures we got of Henni finishing up the leftover cake. I am afraid we've created a child who goes crazy whenever something sweet is offered to her. She scraped the container that had the icing from the leftover cake so clean we practically didn't even have to put it in the dishwasher. I don't want to find Henni hiding in the bathroom, eating her toothpaste for whatever sweet flavor she can get in her mouth. But then again, I don't want too much sweets to be part of her regular diet either. She certainly gets enough sugar from her fruit intake. How can I successfully help Henni to not perceive these sweet yummies as the exotic forbidden fruit?
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