"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Janet Baraclough" > wrote in message
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>> "Bad behaviour" in toddlers is an essential part of their normal
>> healthy psychological development, not some ghastly deviant trait that
>> has to be eliminated.
>>
>> Constantly boosting blood sugar with day=long snacking, affecting the
>> body's insulin production, might be a whole lot more damaging than
>> having a temper tantrum when she's tired and crabby.
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> Day long snacking IS the method most pediatricians recommend. Little
> bodies just can not process enough food at a meal to keep them going.
> However, blood sugar is not necessarily boosted with a snack. Once can
> eat meat, cheese, nuts, eggs, or low carb vegetables between meals. And
> really one need not be concerned with blood sugar if one isn't diabetic.
> Or if diabetes does not run in the family.
>


Let's not get distracted and give Linda, a food safety amateur, any ideas
about leaving food laying around at room temperature for her kid.

OK? That's the issue here. Food safety. There is no other issue. Linda grew
up in a cave. She's devoid of information and she's trying to kill her
child.