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[quote=Anonymous]I have this issue (and solved it) with grandparents who see my kids like 5-6 days a week. They think they can spoil my kids rotten, only feed them candy/junk/chips/juice and that all healthy foods should be on parents.

It's an absolute battle. It was making our kids hate us for always having to be the "mean" ones who make them eat vegetables and drink water and milk. We also felt like we couldn't ever treat the kids because they got nonstop candy from grandparents. I'm sure we would have felt differently if these were grandparents who only saw them on holidays or special occasions.

DH and I took a step back and saw that this was a losing battle. Grandparents had to cut it out or there would be no time with grandkids to play and we would stop visiting (we had full time care for the kids, this was grandparents choice to have kids over. They'd pick them up early from daycare).

Per our example, it won't work if one parent is good cop and the other is bad cop. Both parents should be on the same page and need to agree. [/quote]

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