Confession
Cooper81
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and honestly I'm not really that embarrased about it. Almost every morning we give J, two (and only 2, but we cut them in half) dark chocolate M&M's. And we only really do this because for some reason it's the only food he likes to examine for a while while/before eating (maybe it's the different colors). After we get ready and dressed upstairs, we go into the kitchen and if we didn't give/distract him with M&M's he would try to pull everything off the lower shelves of the pantry and ask for a million different snacks. I feel a little guilty about giving him chocolate in the morning but, 1) it's only 2 little M&M's 2) it's dark chocolate, so it's good for you right? 3) he has already had some raisins/graham crackers and milk 4) it's the only way to get us out the door in 5 minutes.
There I've gotten it off my chest.
Re: Confession
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w
BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w
BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d
BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
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Someone's getting a little brother!
I'm failing to see what's so confession worthy
Sometimes mama's gotta do what mama's gotta do.
I'm totally of the mindset of things like that won't harm them.
ditto
this is only confession-worthy on the Bump, where no child ever drinks juice or has processed food.
Ha that was my train of thought, how many on the nat'l boards would *gasp* at giving a child M&M's period. Like I said, we don't really feel guilty about it, besides we also work on his colors while he's examining them!
Girl I thought you were announcing!
If it works it works.
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w
BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w
BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d
BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
My Blog: Decorate This
haha, not quite yet, maybe in a few months
Yep, I'm w/ the rest - you've gotta do what you've gotta do. I'm sure we all do things just to get through! I haven't given DS chocolate yet (trying to postpone what is sure to turn into a chocoholic if he's anything like his momma), but I don't see any issue w/ a couple of M&Ms per day! I hardly think that will ruin him for the rest of his life.
And props for turning his M&Ms into an educational experience... next up, counting w/ them? Practicing half vs whole? Haha! See, the possibilities are endless!
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