Yuck! In light of the poor health, obesity, and childhood diabetes problem in this country, this being a “new” product to the market is astounding. The company should be ashamed.
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damn, i got sucked in on cafemom. the chick writing in pink, and the mom constantly throwing in your face that her child has issues were driving me nuts.

we get it. but that’s not what this was about. if it came with a prescription i’d understand. buuuuuut it doesn’t.
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I read about 4 pages of the posts on cafe mom and had to stop! It’s ok to disagree but the name calling and all that was too much for me!

My above comment was just to point out their are instances when this could be legitimately needed but I agree many will use it who don’t need to or use it incorrectly. I agreed with one moms post on CafeMom…everything in moderation. My 6 year old is very healthy and makes good food choices. She often surprises me…baby carrots over fried donuts at a hockey game! She only drinks chocolate milk though. She doesn’t like drinking white milk. Anyway my point is if you teach your kids eating healthy is important and how to make good food choices its ok to have some unhealthy things sometimes…in moderation! I know a couple different families who allow their children virtually no treats, candy, or unhealthy snacks. These kids are the ones I see sneaking treats when their parents aren’t looking or eating 20 pieces of licorice on July 4th! There has to be a middle ground between junk food 24/7 and nothing unhealthy ever! That’s what we need to teach our children, everything in moderation.

my eldest wanted nothing but cereal. i got rid of the cereal and now he eats ::gasp:: eggs. ASKS for eggs. lol wanted nothing but pb&j, i stopped giving it as an option. granted pb has protein in it, so that’s still an option, just in a different way – like on celery with raisins. or nuts as a snack instead of crackers. he’s still picky, but at least he’s picky with healthier items.

granted it was MY fault he was eating crap to begin with, i don’t dispute that fact. i had to change in order for him to change.
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but that is SOOOOO how america is these days. kids rule the roost. even at the park i hear it.. “okay honey, time to go”
“NO” screams the 4 yr old, not yet. “alright, 5 more minutes…” 15 minutes later, they still haven’t left the park.

me?? i give the 5 minute warning, and when that warning has passed, I let them know it’s time to go, and start walking away. If they don’t follow, or throw a temper tantrum I pick them up under my arm and head for the car. 9 times out of 10 we leave the park just fine after that warning. the times one throws a tantrum, i walk out of the park with him under my arm.. we get a ways and i say “are you ready to walk now?”, and most times he is and he walks the rest of the way to the car like nothing happened.

When I fix a healthy dinner and my eldest doesn’t touch it, he still has to sit at the table with us while we eat. which usually he ends up picking at. but he’ll go to bed hungry if he doesn’t eat, and then eat a big breakfast of eggs and fruit in the morning.

proverbs 22:6 – train up a child in the direction he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.
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I think people are going overboard on this whole thing personally. I know enough formula feeding moms to know most of them try to get baby on whole milk as fast as possible so they can stop paying for formula that most of them CHOSE to use. Those parents aren’t going to go out and buy this just because it’s now on the market. I have a bfing almost 14 mos old who also just started using a rx toddler formula for the times I’m away from her and when we’re in the car sometimes. It comes in pineapple-orange, grape, and tropical flavors and she likes them all! I have no problems giving her these flavors and I know she’ll be fine. My now 3yo was on flavored formula as well, tropical because she wouldn’t drink the plain and it was drink something or become FTT because of her allergies. It’s not as simple as don’t give them other choices and they’ll eventually take the other stuff sometimes. I think we as bfing moms tend to just go overboard and think that every formula using mom out there is just going to run to the store and empty the shelves of this product and only feed their child this when I just don’t see that happening in normal households.

I could probably host an MNO where breastfeeding moms would gladly show up and glug down bacon formula.

The chocolate stuff, not so much. I can’t imagine how it’s a good idea, and I’ll just leave it at that!
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Thanks for stopping by my blog. Sarah did an awesome job on your blog I love it.
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Just FYI for those moms who happen on this post and whose breastfed babies won’t take milk–they don’t necessarily need milk (unless there is some medical reason that specifically calls for it). They are fine with cheese or yoghurt and can drink water. My daughter didn’t drink milk until 15 months.

Only tangential…but just wanted to add that info.
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