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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 66012" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>difficult child 3 has been obsessed with coffee since he was a baby. I was attending a mothers group and he would crawl around the floor and steal coffee cups. He'd pick up an empty cup and hold it over his face like an oxygen mask, breathing in the smell of coffee. I drink full decaf, so I would let him have a taste of mine. He soon was drinking decaf coffee like mine - no sugar and a bit of milk. Now he drinks it with a lot of sugar - he doesn't seem to have problems with sugar the way some kids do.</p><p></p><p>He will eat whole coffee beans. One day on the way home from the shops, I was wondering aloud if I had bought the vanilla-flavoured coffee beans or the plain ones. Without hesitation, difficult child 3 opened the bag, took out a coffee bean from the bags and said, "No, that's the plain ones... OK, here are the vanilla ones."</p><p>They are decaf beans. We know from experience he can tolerate about half a cup of full-leaded coffee, which means a handful of beans with full caffeine, but he's very careful and generally won't taste caffeinated beans.</p><p></p><p>But this obsession with coffee itself - the flavour, the smell - I've never seen it before, at such a young age. As a baby when he was still only on breast milk, he was trying to grab my coffee mug. Freaky!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 66012, member: 1991"] difficult child 3 has been obsessed with coffee since he was a baby. I was attending a mothers group and he would crawl around the floor and steal coffee cups. He'd pick up an empty cup and hold it over his face like an oxygen mask, breathing in the smell of coffee. I drink full decaf, so I would let him have a taste of mine. He soon was drinking decaf coffee like mine - no sugar and a bit of milk. Now he drinks it with a lot of sugar - he doesn't seem to have problems with sugar the way some kids do. He will eat whole coffee beans. One day on the way home from the shops, I was wondering aloud if I had bought the vanilla-flavoured coffee beans or the plain ones. Without hesitation, difficult child 3 opened the bag, took out a coffee bean from the bags and said, "No, that's the plain ones... OK, here are the vanilla ones." They are decaf beans. We know from experience he can tolerate about half a cup of full-leaded coffee, which means a handful of beans with full caffeine, but he's very careful and generally won't taste caffeinated beans. But this obsession with coffee itself - the flavour, the smell - I've never seen it before, at such a young age. As a baby when he was still only on breast milk, he was trying to grab my coffee mug. Freaky! Marg [/QUOTE]
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