Off Topic Fruit evil fruit

Ive 3 kids, 1 is 18 the other 2 are 4 and 2 years old.

The eldest was never big on fruit but back in Ireland there was always plenty of sugar in the gaff in those days.

We decided with the youngest two to not go down that road.

These two younguns are fruit mad, will happily sit watching ben and holly with a big bowl of grapes between them on the floor, munching away happily. To them fruit is a treat.

Reckon if we had treats the fruit would be left rotting in the fruitbowl

Something to be said for keeping that sugar **** out of their diet, apart from the obvious benefts of course.

on a 2 week trip back to Ireland, the grandparents spoilt them with sugary treats and we noticed aggression in the kids for up to two weeks after we got home. Literally like, anger n **** when they are not really like that normall at all. They were literally different kids with the sugar intake, bedtimes 2 weeks after any sugar intake were a nightmare n stuff.

Food for thought

 

I agree fruit is evil, it gives me gout!

 

No, sitting in the corner of your kitchen in the dark at 4 am, naked and crying, eating a sack of oranges and bemoaning the loss of a rug muncher gives you gout.

 

Brought mine up without giving them sweets when they were young. The problems come when they go to school.....

 

Not the beer, then?

 

Yeah that's what me and herself were talking about recently, the fact that when they head off to school on their own steam, they can go buy sweets themselves, we were kinda hoping the habit of eatingfruit instead would stick.. slim chance of that

 

The reason for this thread is because of my shock at how much they changed with the sugar. Pure aggression from my 4 year old son where there was absolutely none before. The 2 year old hitting me when she didn;t agree with my call on anything

 

There's a few on here who can relate to that.

 

Validation by the agreement of others was never a requirement of mine, just as well eh

 

No, I can drink loads of that but if eat an apple I can't walk, a crazy reversal of logic.

 

I know a few who deserve it

 

I think you might be putting the apple in the wrong hole

 

Lol but no cherries are the worst though really painful if I eat them.

 

you freak!

 

Mine have always had both

 

Seeing as the usual causes of gout are fatty foods and alcohol I'm quite happy. **** fruit.

 

It might not just be the fruit.

It might be that their Grand Parents were soft on them and they've gone a bit feral away from you yer control freak beast

 

So much anticipation in this thread. Was certain you had started an anti fruit campaign and would post 1000 word articles every 10 minutes. Shame

I was brought up on fruit over sweets. Sweets were a very rare treat. Even the desserts were bloody fruit.

My friends kid genuinely refuses any sweets of chocolate. He prefers carrot sticks and fruit. Even school didnt change him.

 

You put fruit and sugar up yer jacksie?

You know what, I am impressed you copped the wording of the title, it was indeed a mock suggestion of a possible conspiracy thread.

Either that or you actually fell for a ploy a child could figure out, not sure which yet

 

I'm not a control freak if I am in control, only when I want control but can't get it I'll have you know

Once control is mine I am a fair and just dictator.

I tell my kids all of the time when they disagree, "no one voted me into power, his is not a democracy"