Candy is a pretty rare event in our house. This week we only bought candy (that he got into) twice, and it was for a special occasion. It is SO rare, and his problems have been for so long. But you know, I really like your idea of natural candies. Without all that food dye and stuff.
I love that idea! Sweetening the candy with Honey instead of sugar! We grow a lot of our own vegetables, and we have an apple, cherry and plum tree in the back and we used to have a fig tree (but then we moved). The apple and plum tree came with the house, but we planted the cherry tree, and manage the garden.
So I wonder if we can start making his candy too. We make our own dog food why not the candy? I mean there are some foods I think that are important just to say that he's had, so that when he's with other children when he gets older or adults they won't laugh at him for not even knowing what a snickers bar is or having experienced it (the case of my wife). So we expose him to some of these things minimally, one of the major things is that he can't eat chocolate at all, so snicker bars is out even when he's curious because of the smell.
Doctors are always into labels
. I don't think he has ADHD (they diagnose everyone with ADHD these days), and my wife believes that ADHD is what happens to a normal human being when you make them sit at a desk 8 hrs a day. And he doesn't watch TV, and I read once that TV (with all the crap that's on it today) isn't good for kids when they're young because it jumps from scene to sceen instead of taking it slowly so their mind doesn't develop so well.
Fortunately with our son we won't have much to adjust to. Because I'm so cheap, and believe that the world tries to make money off of us by feeding into our needs for food, shelter, health, etc. So I try and do a lot of home remedies, homemade stuff, and our kids have very rarely had to go to the hospital or rarely been sick, which I personally believe is because we don't fall into the advertisements "Are you sad...do you have a sniffle? Do you need softer tissues?" we use a lot of 'cloth' products, cloth handkerchiefs, diapers, (100% cotton) (well we used to use cloth diapers), we even use cloth toilet paper (it sounds gross but its really not that far off from using cloth diapers). I'm working on investing in a compost toilet where the system leads to outside (but we're hoping to do that sometime next year though sometimes plans go a bit arry).
And I also try to make many of our fabrics. Though knitting clothes doesn't really help for the summer (and I'm still trying to gain patience/learning to use a sewing machine).
But anyway! Long story short! I like your idea for the candies because we don't normally even bother with giving him sweet stuff just because (never thought of it), so in the future if we feel like he needs a reward I think that is a great idea!
I love that idea! Sweetening the candy with Honey instead of sugar! We grow a lot of our own vegetables, and we have an apple, cherry and plum tree in the back and we used to have a fig tree (but then we moved). The apple and plum tree came with the house, but we planted the cherry tree, and manage the garden.
So I wonder if we can start making his candy too. We make our own dog food why not the candy? I mean there are some foods I think that are important just to say that he's had, so that when he's with other children when he gets older or adults they won't laugh at him for not even knowing what a snickers bar is or having experienced it (the case of my wife). So we expose him to some of these things minimally, one of the major things is that he can't eat chocolate at all, so snicker bars is out even when he's curious because of the smell.
Doctors are always into labels
. I don't think he has ADHD (they diagnose everyone with ADHD these days), and my wife believes that ADHD is what happens to a normal human being when you make them sit at a desk 8 hrs a day. And he doesn't watch TV, and I read once that TV (with all the crap that's on it today) isn't good for kids when they're young because it jumps from scene to sceen instead of taking it slowly so their mind doesn't develop so well.Fortunately with our son we won't have much to adjust to. Because I'm so cheap, and believe that the world tries to make money off of us by feeding into our needs for food, shelter, health, etc. So I try and do a lot of home remedies, homemade stuff, and our kids have very rarely had to go to the hospital or rarely been sick, which I personally believe is because we don't fall into the advertisements "Are you sad...do you have a sniffle? Do you need softer tissues?" we use a lot of 'cloth' products, cloth handkerchiefs, diapers, (100% cotton) (well we used to use cloth diapers), we even use cloth toilet paper (it sounds gross but its really not that far off from using cloth diapers). I'm working on investing in a compost toilet where the system leads to outside (but we're hoping to do that sometime next year though sometimes plans go a bit arry).
And I also try to make many of our fabrics. Though knitting clothes doesn't really help for the summer (and I'm still trying to gain patience/learning to use a sewing machine).
But anyway! Long story short! I like your idea for the candies because we don't normally even bother with giving him sweet stuff just because (never thought of it), so in the future if we feel like he needs a reward I think that is a great idea!
It's hard to give good advice with only a fraction of the information...I didn't know a lot of what you just said and your post gives great context.
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