The discovery of the tape on the creamer came last night when we got home from gymnastics.  AJ (my 6 year old) has poured herself a cup of milk.  She is now in the refrigerator and I am waiting to see what will happen.  She walks over to me and says “Mommy, why is there tape on the creamer?”  I take my opportunity and ask her “Why do you know that there is tape on the creamer?”  She looks a little shocked and quietly says “Because I have been drinking it.”

I get the creamer from the fridge and show her how much of the creamer is gone.  After a some discussion about how quickly the creamer has been used she acknowledges that she has been drinking a lot of it.  I told her she was not allowed to drink the creamer.  She was so disappointed and kept insisting that she really liked it.

So now, I am trying to figure out a good compromise.  Clearly, it is not healthy for her to drink cups of coffee creamer (plus who can afford that).  But I am sad that she really wants some and I have told her “no”.  So I have had a couple of suggestions, both of which seem reasonable.

Allow her to have one of the small cups of creamer a day to add to her milk so she can get the sweet flavor, but it is controlled.  Or to get her the vanilla Silk so that her milk is sweeter tasting but still healthy.

Please feel free to share any other suggestions you may have on what a reasonable compromise might be for her.