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[quote=Anonymous]The real question is frequency. If this is four times a year for vacations/holidays, let it go. Special treats when Auntie and Uncle are around, yay.

If they're always around (more frequently than weekly), you've got to nip this in the bud. How forcefully have you said you don't want between meal snacking? If it was "oh, yeah, we try to avoid snacking between meals," you've got to go in harder. "Hey, Uncle Larlo, we are no longer allowing our children any snacks outside of mealtimes and their 4pm snack (or whatever) so please do not offer them any food outside these times. It's totally fine if your kids are eating and my kids are not, they'll be okay." I would definitely include the last part - they may think it's rude to provide a sundae to their kids and leave your kids empty handed, so you want to preempt that concern. If you've made it clear and they're ignoring you, unfortunately, you can't leave your kids alone with them (at least for a while) - you've got to be there so when Uncle Larlo says starts to hand them a bag of candy you can say "no, thank you, it's not snack time right now" and physical intercept as needed.

If it's weekly - it's a judgment call. [/quote]

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