reader's happy ending to sugary cereal quandry...

Here is a great story from a reader. I love how she dealt with this tricky cereal situation! It can be extra hard when parents have different ideas about what to serve. Notice it took a year, but D trusted her boys, did her job of providing balance and not fighting the battles...What are your success stories?A happy ending to my sugar cereal woes. . . Background: hubby eats sugar cereals for breakfast and buys them regularly for our boys, who were turning up their noses at everything else. Their favorites were Peanut Butter Crunch and Lucky Charms (the worst! They'd skip the cereal and just eat the marshmallows). Hubby was not open to the idea of not buying the crap on a regular basis. My strategy: serve boys something else tasty but healthier for breakfast before they had a chance to request sugar cereal (peanut butter and bananas on toast, oatmeal with a little brown sugar, dried cranberries and walnuts, and plenty of milk, Rice Chex with blueberries and a sprinkle of table sugar). My boys would complain that they wanted PB Crunch instead, I'd simply say "OK," and serve that, too. No lectures about sugar crap and no comments, even to hubby. Gradually, they started eating both options instead of just the PB Crunch, and then they started eating what I served instead of asking for the sugar cereal. Now, they will ask for oatmeal or or toast or Chex or Cheerios with fruit instead of the crap. They're eating the sugar cereals now about once or twice a week and usually only a few bites in addition to something better. I am very happy with this result- no forbidden fruit aura about the crap and boys who are full and happy until lunchtime thanks to some fiber, protein, and fat in their breakfasts! It took about a year to get to this point (probably because of my own early mistakes in preaching about how sugar cereals don't make you full).