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That's like a person talking to a grocery store manager and asking him to please stop displaying toys in the cereal aisle or checkout. It would be stupid to complain about the toys creating a problem since when your kids see it, they start to ask for it and/or fuss, etc. 
As a parent your job is to parent your child. Teach him restraint, etc.[/quote]

They actually [i]do[/i] have kid-friendly checkout lanes that don't stock candy...

Kids are kids. You are a nanny, right? For a while? Because you can teach your kids the best behavior from the day they are born until they are 18 and there will STILL be meltdowns and tantrums and they will still act out, because that is what they do. They test the world around them, they test the adults around them, and their growing brains are still working on emotional regulation and self-control.

I think a mom asking her nanny to model certain eating behaviors to minimize this struggle on a day-to-day basis is fine. I think asking the nanny to do all the other things OP listed is absolutely insane.[/quote]

I agree completely with this post and think the previous one saying that the mom is to afraid to say no to her children is WAY off base. Why make every day a battle? It's ludicrous to compare shopping in a grocery store to exposing the kids to what the nanny eats every day, possibly multiple times a day.  Do you go to the grocery store every day?

For starters, the way to teach your children healthy eating habits isn't by saying "because I said so."  So when your children are little they will listen to you if you make them  little robots who have to do what their parents say without any understanding of the reason why.  If you want them to grow up and continue to make healthy choices you need to teach them WHY eating healthy is good and the most important part of that is leading by example.  If you just tell them no to everything without their understanding when they are old enough they will just stop listening to you.  Even more so if you say no but continue to show them an opposite example by what you do.

Example: This morning DS who is 2 1/2 started rocking back and forth in his booster seat.  I told him "I don't want you to do that because the chair could tip over and you could fall on your head." And guess what happened?  He stopped doing it.  But what if I had told him not to do that but was rocking back and forth in my own chair?  How much do you think he would have listened then?  Of course he might have listened to me in that moment because I said so but when I wasn't around he might have done it again.  Now he knows WHY he shouldn't do it.

Sometimes you just have to say "no" but if it's possible it's always better to explain things and teach by example.[/quote]

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