{"id":292,"date":"2006-11-29T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T03:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-11-29\/292"},"modified":"2006-11-29T12:23:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T03:23:20","slug":"fostering-a-dislike-of-sweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-11-29\/292","title":{"rendered":"Fostering a Dislike of Sweets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Yesterday while returning from Anthony's gymnastics class (it was\njump-rope day), I gave directions<\/span> to a couple<\/span> of lost tourists from\nnorthern Japan. In appreciation, they gave Anthony a box<\/span> of chocolate. It was almost<\/span> dinner time, but I said<\/span> that he could have some after\ndinner.<\/p>\n\n

We try to limit his junk food, as I've written before<\/a>. We don't\ndeny it totally, but save it for special occasions so that it doesn't\nbecome habit. He does enjoy<\/span> it when he gets it, like all kids, especially\nchocolate.<\/p>\n\n

After dinner, he excitedly passed out peaces to everyone, and finally\nbit in to his own. He chewed<\/span> a little<\/span> bit, then made a “yuck” face and went\nto Mommy so he could spit it out. By the time<\/span> Mommy got something for him\nto spit into, he was crying. I gave him<\/span> some milk so he could wash the\nyucky chocolate taste out of his mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n

The chocolate was one of the high-cocoa-content variety (86%) that have\nbecome popular in the last decade. The higher<\/span> the cocoa content, the less\nthe sugar content, and hence the more bitter it becomes. This was mildly\nbitter, but certainly not the silky smooth ultra sweet taste of “normal”\nmilk chocolate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said “see, chocolate is yucky!” hoping to dissuade him from a future<\/span>\nlife of junk-food dependency, to which he replied “I usually<\/span> like chocolate,\nbut I don't<\/span> like this<\/i> chocolate.” Drat, too late!<\/p>\n\n

We should have given him this kind of chocolate very early on, so that\nhe'd develop an immediate dislike of it. Of course, he'd eventually realize\nthat there were other kinds, but an early lack of desire for sweets could\nhave been nice.<\/p>\n\n

I thought I'd post this as a suggestion to new parents: give your kids\nsome high-cocoa chocolate early on, and perhaps save yourself from some “I\nwant<\/span> chocolate!” hassles later.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Yesterday while returning from Anthony's gymnastics class (it was jump-rope day), I gave directions to a couple of lost tourists from northern Japan. In appreciation, they gave Anthony a box of chocolate. It was almost dinner time, but I said that he could have some after dinner.<\/p>

We try to limit his junk food, as I've written before. We don't deny it totally, but save it for special occasions so that it doesn't become habit. He does enjoy it when he gets it, like all kids, especially chocolate.<\/p>

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