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[quote=Anonymous]I'm overweight but always try to make sure the kids see me eating a variety of fruits and especially vegetables. I think part of my job is to help them enjoy good, whole foods. It's something I've had to learn more as an adult...we ate a fair amount of processed food growing up (but also had a garden so I grew up eating vegetables too.)

I think it's really a fine line though...you don't want to make treats into the forbidden fruit because the forbidden is always the most tantalizing. You don't want them to gorge themselves when they're older because you're not there to stop them and they know they can only have treats when you don't know about it. Kids will figure the need to lie about it and you don't want that either.

My two cents is to tell the nanny you don't want the junk around DD but I also would strongly urge you to allow occasional treats...maybe for holidays or something so it's at least allowed occasionally. PP's have also made a fair point that is't not wise to monitor what another adult eats...do you ever eat or drink something she can't have? Sometimes adults get to do things that kids don't get to do and that's that.[/quote]

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