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[quote=Anonymous]Parents know their own kids best. There are some kids for whom banning or strictly rationing candy is the right approach. It is not for my older DD. If you make something off limits, everything becomes about that thing. If we say, you have to finish x% of dinner to get dessert, it all becomes a negotiation where she tries to get away with eating as little as possible and then gobbles up dessert. If we give her dessert on her dinner plate, she eats 90% of everything without argument* and is equally as likely to leave a bite or two of dessert as a bite or two of any other food she likes. (*We introduce one new food or newly prepared food a few meals a week w/ a "one real taste" rule and that remains a battle a good deal of the time.)[/quote]
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