My exhausted little bear fell asleep last night by eight, and slept through to eight!
And we have gone for a walk today to the library. It is a local library, open two and one half days per week, with less books than little bear, but it is a start. He is now at nursery.
However, I really do not appreciate darling father giving me a lecture on how I need to watch what he eats so that he eats his tea and then placing a chocolate bar in front of little bear, just before he has his lunch. Nor do I appreciate the lollies, the milkshake and the fuss.
Feel a bit battered by it all. Last night I made home made sauce from tomatoes from our garden. Tonight's menu is also quite low fat and healthy, but the battle against stuffing little bear full of sugar is a tough one. But hopefully, once the sugar rush has gone, he will sleep.
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Oooh wow. Love that you've grown enough tomatoes to make a proper sauce! It's weird. The tomatoes we lovingly tend and molly coddle in our greenhouse are verdant with lush foliage and produce good tomatoes. However, the ones we plant outside and largely leave to their own devices have TONS of tomatoes on them.
I tried growing an outdoor bush tomato which is small, produces tiny cherry tomatoes and doesn't need a lot of room or staking/tieing up, etc, called Garden Pearl. We've got a lot of fruit on them, but sadly they just taste like ordinary supermarket tomatoes. The variety called 'tumbler' which you put in hanging baskets are gorgeous, as are the 'black cherry' ones.
I think you should point out to DF that he's not exactly helping the situation there. I mean, a milkshake (not the MacDonalds-type stuffed with sugar and various additives variety) is a good thing to have as a 'snack' in the morning or afternoon. But as you say, at the wrong time, NOT a good thing.
You're doing really, really well. It's an emotive issue and with OH losing patience quickly and DF carrying out Resistance-style sabotage on the other hand, I think you're coping very well! It does sound like you're doing your best to make sure LB is eating and eating well.
What Morgan says below about making as little a fuss about it as possible, while making it clear that his breakfast/dinner/tea is the only option on the table (so to speak) seems really sensible to me. I am, however, a mere single male so have no experience.
The other thing, as well as rationing sugar, is physical exercise. It's a shame the park's so far away from your house. On sunny days like today it'd be so good for the both of you. I do realise that the logistics of taking a toddler to a park make things difficult!
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