KimberlyH
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Most of my family members are overweight and I was at one time as well. I am concerned that my daughter is going to have food issues and so have spent a lot of time thinking about how we'll present food items that aren't healthy to her. I don't want to forbid sweets and junk altogether because I believe it will create a whole different set of problems, but I do plan to keep junk food intake to a minimum, which shouldn't be too difficult because aside from my recent cookie obsession we tend to eat very healthy foods. I have some ideas about how I want to approach this, such as not referring to any food as "treats" (I want treats to be trips to the zoo, special time with us, etc. not food related) instead explaining that certain foods make us grow healthy and strong and others don't, so we only eat the ones that don't sometimes.
So how do you deal with junk food and your kids? What works for you? What hasn't?
So how do you deal with junk food and your kids? What works for you? What hasn't?