What does it mean when the mother-in-law lets a 1-year-old child eat sweets?

Coax the children. Older people still have the old traditional concept in educating their children. They believe that sugar has no effect on children. Mother-in-law gives sweets to 1-year-old children just to comfort them. One-year-old babies can eat sugar, but they should not feed them too much sugar, especially refined sugar, such as white sugar, rock sugar, etc.