I kept Em off juice for a looong time mainly to protect her teeth, not anything to do with her weight. I'm overly paranoid about rotten teeth.

You know, because it's not like fats are necessary for brain development or anything.

But Jessica, having a fat child would be the worst fate ever!

I kept Em off juice for a looong time mainly to protect her teeth, not anything to do with her weight. I'm overly paranoid about rotten teeth.

This is especially true if you let them drink juice from a bottle, but it's also true for milk from a bottle. And yeah, I was a little weird about the kids' teeth, too, because as a family ours aren't great to start.

Every time, wait another five minutes, until you're not going in until he's been crying for twenty minutes, for instance.

This is what my friends did with their twins and it worked generally pretty well. They are actually insanely good now, at 2, with going to bed. They, esp the girl, just love their cribs!

Although the other day at naptime the boy did not want to go to sleep. He threw everything from his crib into his sleeping sister's crib (while laughing loudly) thus waking her up and causing too short naps and much fussiness later in the day.

This is especially true if you let them drink juice from a bottle, but it's also true for milk from a bottle.

Yeah, there's not a lot out there with more sugar in it than breastmilk.

I am the poster child that will prove that low-fat milk( in child hood) won't make much difference in an adult weight. My sister could not handle full fat milk when we growing up ( projectile) . so we had dried milk powder mixed with water and then mixed with milk to cut the fat .

Makes me wonder how my generation ever made it to adulthood, with all the things our parents did wrong without knowing it. (But then, I'm convinced parents inevitably screw up their kids' lives. Not because they're bad parents, but because they have to make so many decisions affecting the fundamentals of their kids' lives, based on limited understanding of their kids' personalities and frequently contradictory advice.)

(The above either says a lot about my childhood or a lot about my world view. Either way, I'll stick with cats. And avoid giving any advice to parents that isn't based on either my memories of my own childhood experiences or "YOU DID WHAT?!?!?!?!")

Although the other day at naptime the boy did not want to go to sleep.

Naptime can get tough as they outgrow it. We always made sure to say the kids simply had to stay in their beds, or even in their rooms, but not specifically enforce *sleep* (which is, you know, impossible). They usually dozed off anyway out of boredom, and at least I got a break.

Um.

You know, because it's not like fats are necessary for brain development or anything.

But Jessica, having a fat child would be the worst fate ever!

Having a fat child could lead to CPS taking your kid away. And if you think I'm kidding, just google "childhood obesity." It's happening more in other countries, but I'm SO expecting it to happen here soon.

and at least I got a break.

I suspect that was my mother's reasoning. Funny how naptime always coincided with Dark Shadows....