Is it right to give a healthy *three*-year-old vitamin supplements rather than e!


Question: Is it right to give a healthy *three*-year-old vitamin supplements rather than ensure that he has a ...?
....balanced diet in the first place?
I always insisted that my boys ate a balanced diet whether they liked some of the foods or not and they grew up perfectly healthily without supplements especially at three.
The Mother in question is giving the supplements to my three-year-old grandson (and the other two, eight and nine, probably)rather than make him eat greens and so on for iron (and probably to try to save her cooking properly too).
What do you think of this practice?

Answers:

I'm afraid I agree with Razzle - their NOT your children, and I am assuming that the mother as you call her is not your daughter.

Personally I think the only person who has any say in this other than the mother is the father.

Therefore you should do as advised - stay out!



I always gave my kids a multi vitamin, but that was in addition to eating a balanced diet, including fruits and vegetables. It is much easier to start that habit when they are young! I am now divorced, and my current fiancees children were never given a healthy balanced diet when they were little and were A-much more sickly, and B-now it is a nightmare sometimes to get them to eat healthy foods.

However, difficult situation to advise another mother on their parenting....



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I'm afraid I agree with Razzle - their NOT your children, and I am assuming that the mother as you call her is not your daughter.

Personally I think the only person who has any say in this other than the mother is the father.

Therefore you should do as advised - stay out!



not good, taking supplements isn't a substitute for a healthy diet. By doing that they will grow up never liking or eating vegetables. It's kind of lazy.




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