Moms Talk: Take It To The Limit
This weekend, we took all of the sugar out of our house.
WAH!
Well, okay. Not all the sugar. I still have, you know, some actual sugar. And a couple of cake mixes and some chocolate covered protein bars.
But pretty much everything else went out. No more mini-bars of chocolate from Trader Joes. No box of leftover Valentines candy on top of the fridge. No more cookies in the pantry, not even that box of Thin Mints I’d been “saving” inside of the oatmeal.
Why?
Because my daughter has a sweet tooth the size of the space needle. And she doesn’t know how to take no for an answer for longer than 15 minutes.
This is, I know, entirely my fault. She used to be very underweight , and at the doctor’s recommendation, we used to serve her tablespoons of Haagen Dazs after every meal as a toddler.
This limit is not about her weight. She’s still a string bean, and probably always will be (her favorite food is ice, and her favorite drink is Crystal Light). But oh man, that sweet tooth! She begs, she whines, she refuses to eat other foods so she can “save room for dessert.”
And finally we’ve had enough.
I’m sure this came as a huge shock to her, especially because this is also the week she has a bedtime again. We’ve started at 9 p.m., much later than it will need to be in two weeks when school starts. But it's still significantly more structured than the rest of the summer has been. Between travel, family visits, the outdoor movies, sleepovers (sometimes multiple in a row), and just general “it stays light really late now” summer insomnia, her bedtime has been somewhere between 10 and dawn.
And next week, unbeknownst to her, the screen time limits go back on. Sigh. So long, getting stuff done on rainy days while she watches endless Spongebob marathons.
I will go out on a parenting limb, and say flat out that limits are important. Your child must learn that want does not equal get. Otherwise, her or she can end up a sugared up, overtired jerk who runs all over people. Including you.
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No box of leftover Valentines candy on top of the fridge. No more cookies in the pantry, not even that box of Thin Mints I'd been “saving” inside of the oatmeal. Because my daughter has a sweet tooth the size of the space needle.
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