scatterbunny
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How do you handle situations like birthday parties with kids who have food allergies and/or are on special diets?
Yesterday I decided to give in and let Hayley have birthday cake and whatever fruit-flavored crud they were giving the kids to drink. The cake was a standard grocery store bakery concoction, white cake with red jelly filling, with HOT PINK and PASTEL GREEN frosting, with My Little Ponies all over it. Very cute, but very full of bad stuff.
The party was over at about 4:30 pm and we came home. She started acting up, being very angry, high-strung, histrionic, needy, demanding...she had tantrums off and on all evening and night, hitting and kicking her bedroom door, until she finally went to bed.
I think it took THIS to finally totally, 100% convince Mark that food, specifically certain things IN food, had such a strong effect on her.
Today she's had sugar (which we used to be pretty strict about, and still do limit somewhat), but no artificial, chemical stuff, and no dairy, and she's been an angel...even more well-behaved than usual, which I sometimes notice after she has a particularly bad meltdown day. It's like, she gets it out of her system for awhile. Or maybe she just doesn't have any slips on the diet and is fine for awhile. I REALLY need to start keeping a food/behavior journal for her.
Yesterday I decided to give in and let Hayley have birthday cake and whatever fruit-flavored crud they were giving the kids to drink. The cake was a standard grocery store bakery concoction, white cake with red jelly filling, with HOT PINK and PASTEL GREEN frosting, with My Little Ponies all over it. Very cute, but very full of bad stuff.
The party was over at about 4:30 pm and we came home. She started acting up, being very angry, high-strung, histrionic, needy, demanding...she had tantrums off and on all evening and night, hitting and kicking her bedroom door, until she finally went to bed.
I think it took THIS to finally totally, 100% convince Mark that food, specifically certain things IN food, had such a strong effect on her.
Today she's had sugar (which we used to be pretty strict about, and still do limit somewhat), but no artificial, chemical stuff, and no dairy, and she's been an angel...even more well-behaved than usual, which I sometimes notice after she has a particularly bad meltdown day. It's like, she gets it out of her system for awhile. Or maybe she just doesn't have any slips on the diet and is fine for awhile. I REALLY need to start keeping a food/behavior journal for her.