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Preventing hyperactivity and tooth decay | So the first time she drank Pepsi, I literally thought my husband was drinking my sodas at night, and I was getting mad. But one time I caught her. She was like nine months and unscrewing the top to the Pepsi and taking it to the head. That’s what made me stop drinking Pepsi because I was wondering why she was always hyper late at night. |
He had two cavities. They told me they wanted to take his two front teeth out. So, I said no because, I actually have a niece who is four-years-old and they went to the doctor at the same time, and they told us that we have to take their two front teeth out. I said, “No way!” My niece is four-years-old and she got her two teeth out, her two front teeth. I don’t like that. My son still has his teeth. Because they said, “Ok, ma’am, I understand you don’t want his teeth out, so, we’re going to go another route.” So they capped them. So, I was not having that. Couldn’t have his teeth out. | |
I’m not a big sugar kicker. I feel like the sugar keeps them going! If it’s 100% juice I feel like they’re getting the fruit out of it but, as far the sugar content, I don’t want to deal with that all day! So they get the flavor, but I still dilute it and she’s four. | |
Teaching life lessons to children | I buy a case of water and the packets of the juice. I count- you get a juice with your dinner and then you get another juice- that’s the only juice you’re going to get, two juices out of the day. The rest you have to drink water. |
So she got the cookie or the cake or the cupcake, but I feel like it gives me something, if I feel like she didn’t eat that fruit that I sent in the snack pack for lunch or she didn’t drink enough milk or something, it’s like a trade-off. You don’t get the cookie. | |
Being responsive to children | They won’t eat peas, for some reason. They say it looks nasty to them so they don’t eat peas. So I won’t cook peas for them, so I know they only like corn, broccoli, string beans and maybe greens. |
Sometimes I’ll give my kids two [juice boxes] in a row. If I see that they guzzled the juice down really fast, I can see they’re really thirsty, so I’ll say, “Go ahead, you can have another one”. | |
Knowing your child is to understand, where they stand, and how they function and when you can kind of judge. |