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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH is not unreasonable to want change. PP misrepresents what grandparents are doing and how often. Big difference between junk food all the time and once or twice a month...[/quote]

I have [b]older kids[/b] and the cultural around junk food is HUGE.  It’s daily from school - at a minimum (school breakfast). Then add in school parties, teacher rewards, kids sending in birthday treats, parents sending in treats for sports practice or games, weekend get togethers, parties or  day trips usually involve desserts and such. Now add in grandparents frequently buying treats and soda at restaurants.  That is a LOT of junk and that’s without a parent even keeping it at home. Literally no kid is deprived of junk food these days, regardless of what parents don’t buy [/quote]

Older than what? Mine are in their 20s, and despite a youthful love of Froot Loops (which I did not buy for them, but did let them eat if the opportunity presented itself), they are now all healthy eaters. Not because I nagged them, but because they figured it out.[/quote]

[b]Then maybe you shouldn’t comment bc you don’t have school age kids anymore.[/b] The junk food bombardment is extremely pervasive now-including in schools, where they do in fact, provide Fruit Loops, Cocoa Puffs, and chocolate muffins daily, on top or a myriad of other junk. And that’s just at school. 
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UH, actually they seem the perfect person to weigh-in, given all the accusations that OP's poor abused children are all going to develop eating disorders and/or be obese because they're subjected to rigid healthy eating rules in earlier childhood. PP's been there and is telling you how it turned out in adulthood for her kids.[/quote]

No, she basically said she let her kids have fruit loops once in a while and her kids are fine.  But kids now are given much more junk food than ever before, by people other than their parents. Including OPs kid who sounds like goes to public school where kids all are given a “free” junk food breakfast (didn’t have that when PPs kids were young) and the sports snacks/treats have exploded.  Plus OPs grandparents are giving them treats 5+ times per week.  [/quote]

Unless you were raising kids 20 years ago, you don't know how pervasive junk food was then (very, in case you actually want to know). Everything you mention was around then, possibly even junkier and more frequent. [/quote]
 
Yeah, I was around then. And no- it’s worse now. If you aren’t raising kids now you have no idea [/quote]

Your memory is faulty. [/quote]

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