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Now I have to agree with you all... I can't get either of my girls to take vitamins, or medicine for that matter. Sara is the WORST!!! I can't get her to take candy if she thinks it looks like medicine. BUT... she does eat good which is more than I can say for Angel. That girl only eats mac & cheese, some cereal, sausage biscuits, chicken nuggets/hamburger & french fries, and pizza. AND candy, can't forget candy, any kind of candy... or sweets. I do limit her though. Sara will eat almost anything we put in front of her. She loves milk too!!! So I KNOW she's getting what she needs. She also likes tea, she definitely took from my side of the family. Now she's not so into candy like Angel is. It's very seldom she eats sweets and usually when she does it's maybe a bite. I'm just glad she's eating at all right now because she is getting over strep. That's horrible!!!!! Poor thing was in so much pain. Couldn't eat, couldn't drink. I had, and still do, have to fight her to take her medicine. I mean literally FIGHT!

Ok, I'm done rambling redface

Gummy vitamins and Gumball vitamins have never impressed Bubba however he will take the not so great tasting chewables with no argument.

I have also heard where kids get around the age the terrible twos could set in, and start refusing things they previously liked. It is about asserting their independence, such as it is. Up to a point, they feel so much a part of us and vice versa, but once they realize they can refuse... they often to, to the point of ridiculousness rofl

I remember a phase Cassie went through at age 4... Breakfast and dinner, she kept asking for oatmeal. I was a single mom at the time and money was tight, but as tempting as it was to indulge her in something as cheap as oatmeal, I did worry enough to ask, and was told even young kids can sense what their bodies need, and at least she was craving something healthy! heart

HEY, now we found something to get Sunny to talk rofl Mention anything about kids and I'm all jabberjaw redface

Ooooooh Jade would love those!!! heart She's getting a little picky with her gummy bear vitamins. Funny, she never liked anything gummy, even real gummy bears, or gummy snacks, until she saw her little cousin Ella with gummy bear vitamins and sometimes she got to have one when she was over. But NOW, she only wants the red ones, and not the orange ones or yellow ones. rolleyes If she seriously eats all the red ones and leaves the others, we'll switch to something else.

i used to love my very orangey vitamin tablets when i was small, they were tiny but they took ages to dissolve, it would sit on my tongue and last all the way to school, then my tongue would be bright orange for ages lol

i'm a little concerned about what's in kids vitamins though, aren't they crammed with sugar? or even worse, nasty sugar substitutes??

Personally, I would rather my kids have sugar than Equal. When Equal first came out, I remember my dad loving it, because it tasted quite pleasant compared to Sweet'n'Low/sacherine. Years later they started connecting Equal to brain problems and meanwhile my dad ended up disabled from a stroke. One which he never fully recovered from the rest of his life.
Splenda on the other hand has it's own ill effects, and of sourse there is the age old threat that Sacherine can give rats cancer, of course they still dispute that by saying it would take a much bigger daily helping of Sacherine than we could possible consume. Overall, it would seem to me that otherwise healthy kids are still safest with reasonable amounts of good old fashioned sugar. Everything is better in moderation, including moderation! rofl

This link had some interesting statistics if anyone is interested:
ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS INFO

my sister has told her boyfriend he can't have sugar anymore, he's got to have sweeteners in his tea, i was a bit horrified by this, apart from the fact that it should be his dicision, i'd rather have the sugar, sure it's calories and rots your teeth, but if you only have one spoonful that's just 11 calories, surely better than a load of nasty chemical substitutes?
for this reason i've also stopped using margerine and i only have butter now, you know what's in it!

We bought a darth tater a couple weekends ago for one of my nephew's upcoming birthdays. Actually, we found it while looking for Star Wars stuff for my teenage sis in law who is obsessed with Anakin, and we got it as a 'just in case' they didn't have Star Wars cards, but they had the cards, so we're saving the tater for when a nephew turns 4 in September.

About the sugar/sweetener, I've found that I'd have to use like SIX packets of sugar to make a small glass of iced tea taste sweet enough, compared to two packets of Sweet n Low, and I don't like the taste of Equal. I know Sweet n Low is the one with the saccharin warning on it about rats, but 1, I figure I would have to ingest a heck of a lot of saccharine every day (pounds!) for it to even be potentially hazardous, and 2, I'm not a rat, and they have different chemicals altogether, and 3, I could spend my whole life being careful about what I eat and then die the next day in a car accident. It gets into the whole concept of fate and predestination and syncronicity and stuff then too, because I honestly believe before we start this life, we choose the major things we're going to do and accomplish and learn, and who we'll marry (even multiple marriages), who our kids will be, and how/when we'll die.

As a side, I've been navigating/reading our guild without being logged in sometimes. Of course, I have to login to reply, but that means anybody can read our guild and messages and not even have a gaia account! I can't remember how I navigated to here though, because if I went to 'my guilds' how did it know who 'I' was?