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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Let me be clear that we do not restrict healthy food. He gets to eat as much as he wants of non-junk food. Yes, he gets enough proteins, fats, and carbs.

My mind is blown that intelligent, well-educated parents think it's okay to let their kids eat unrestricted quantities of unhealthy foods. [b] It's really OK if your kid wants to have six pints of Ben & Jerry's at a sitting on a regular basis? 
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As I said, we allow small amounts of junk food as occasional treats but I cannot fathom allowing kids of any age to free-feed on food that crowds out healthy calories.

Sugary junk food is made to be addictive and kids, especially teens, do not have the forebrain to fight the addiction.

Think about inserting other kinds of addictive substances -- vaping, meth, alcohol instead of junk food. Of course forbidding something cannot make it attractive. Does that mean we should allow free access to vapes, drugs, and alcohol?

What a total dereliction of parental duty. [/quote]

We don't restrict anything and our kids self-police.  Every week we buy one package of cookies from the grocery store bakery, one container of ice cream.   The cookies are gone by about mid week, the ice cream never gets eaten, except by my husband who sometimes has a bowl in the evening.  Sometimes we buy a box of 12 ice cream sandwiches.  Those usually get eaten by the end of the week but sometimes not.  
My kids are 14, 17, 17 and we've never restricted anything at all.  They're all athletes and exercise 5 days per week. They all have access to cash and probably buy themselves food once a week (the youngest one walks by a Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, grocery store, CVS, etc on the way home from school.)  The older two drive themselves to school so they can go anywhere.

What I don't understand about OP, is her kid never out on his own?  Never walks to a store? Never gets dropped off at a friends' house who lives near stores?  He's 13.  If not, this is some crazy restrictive parenting.   [/quote]

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