Kids - Sweets and Chocolate

leiela

haha np's butting in,

Homemade ice cream sounds great i did go though a stage of trying to do jelly with fruit in it, but they sit there and pick out the frui which is very annoying.

As a rule my kids arn't picky's eater they just have in in there head that after dinner comes a sweet our of the cuboard.

I made spiderman cakes on sunday and i've been trying to give them thoses, but they still want the damn sweets gah!!!

I really snapped at them yesterday saying that the sweets were something they should expect every night just because it was a habit didn't mean it was always going to be that way.

tbh it never used to be this way i rember a time where sweets really where a once a week thing, but i think with chrsitmas, halloween etc and having to try and get rid of everything my insane suger hyper family bought t got to the point where i gave them sweets just to try and get rid of them, sad thng is i NEVER EVER buy sweets into the house simply because they get so damn many of everyone else i struggle to get rid of them in "reasonable portions" as it is ... i sware last halloween they got 12-18month worth at the rate i let them eat it.

i think replacing the "sweets" with puddin might be a good place to start perhaps if i did it slowely wouldn't feel so hard done by, then i could slowely replace the puddings with more healthy things by adding thing like fruit etc slowely.

I don't mind my kids having suger, but i'm rerally ot happy with the amount of other stuff that is put into shop bought sweetsand treats.

p.s on the whole caffine thing, i don't let my kids drink it i wouldn't dream of giving my kids tea or coffee.... i let them have hot chocolate as a treat occasionally. I remember gonig mad at my mum a couple of years ago for giving my then 4 year old cups of coffee,ony reason i found out was because when he came home h was demanding it from me saying granny let him have it. However i do allow coke, which has caffine in it, but its 1 glass on VERY special occasions only, most of the time if we are out i try and get them apple juice or milk (go figure they will drink apple juice but won't eat an apple) generally i just try and stear away from the whole fizzy drink thing, i certainly don't buy it for in the home.

sooty&sweep

Hi

I let my children have a chocolate biscuit with their milk when they go to bed.
They also are often allowed one sweet in the car.
I personally think if you try and stop children eating sweets they'll just binge when they get the opportunity so I'd rather they learn't to moderate their intake and so a healthy attitude to sweets and chocolate.

ailuro2

Active kids do need extra energy so the calories shouldn't go to waste/waist, and I am a believer in a little treat, especially if eaten at the same time as another meal, goes a long way to stopping them feel left out when other kids are fed so much garbage. I wouldn't (don't) do it every night though, as then it becomes a punishment when they don't eat their tea but still ask for sweets. My DD has nutella and banana on toast as a treat sometimes, it doesn't always have to be a wrapped sweet.

My DD didn't have sweets or chocolate until she was about 2, and only had water or milk to drink, she does have the occasional fizzy juice now she's 10, but maybe once a week?

There are kids in her class who are given sweets every day for playtime snack, they are the ones who have had teeth pulled out or filled, but my DD has none. It's not a big leap to assume the two are linked. It was DD who mentioned their teeth, btw, not me, so she has made that leap herself.:T

you sound like you're doing a grand job - give the sweets away to the school bazaar, it's going to a useful cause, then.

Teerah

RoseFairy wrote: »

I too have a 'junk/sweetie' cupboard with: apart from just chocolates ( which i prefer to keeping sweets), which also includes some other ok choices like pain au chocolat; or those chocolate filled crepes (individually wrapped), fruit bars, mini raisin boxes, some cakes and crisps, fruit puree in pouches, (which i rotate shopping wise as i can't keep all at the same time) etc.

Sorry but these are not "ok choices" either. Although things like cereal bars, raisins and fruit purees are advertised as healthy choices they are full of sugar and can do a lot of damage to teeth, the key thing to remember is the timing. None of the things mentioned need to be banned but they should be infrequent and kept to meal times only, not for between meal snacking.

To the OP, although I would not encourage sweetie giving, particularly on a nightly basis, I would agree that moderation is the key. They should be kept as treats only but if given and eaten at the end of a main meal they will not do much damage to the teeth.

PolishBigSpender

fernliebee wrote: »

Caffeine is an addictive drug! I don't see why you would want to set your child up for an addiction. Personally I don't drink it (i do drink herbal tea's that are naturally caffeine free) so I definitely wouldn't let my DD have it.

Who mentioned anything about caffeine?

I certainly didn't. I'm a great fan of herbal teas too.

It does amuse me when you see British parents proudly telling the world how healthy they are because their child drinks 'Fruit Shoots' or similar rubbish - without actually realising that they're just as bad as carbonated drinks.

shazrobo

my twins are thirteen now, and are the only ones in they're year groups at school, who have never had fillings. mine usually choose fruit as a snack, and often only eat junk, such as a bar of chocolate on a saturday, the exception, if i'm going out and leave them with a sitter, then i leave them a bag of crisps as well as the fruit as an additional treat, so they dont mind so much, me having the odd night out

Violetta_2

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

It does amuse me when you see British parents proudly telling the world how healthy they are because their child drinks 'Fruit Shoots' or similar rubbish - without actually realising that they're just as bad as carbonated drinks.

If not worse, does anyone know for sure what the artificial sweetners in those kind of drinks do to a childs developing body and brain! I don't, I would rather my dd had an occasional treat of a glass of lemonade than be drinking fruit shoot or the no added sugar type drinks ( with the tiny writing hidden on the side saying crazy chemical sweetners) all day.
Oops sorry op just my major bugbear.
As for no sweets wish I knew, so will keep checking back to see what advice you get.

fernliebee

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Who mentioned anything about caffeine?

I certainly didn't. I'm a great fan of herbal teas too.

It does amuse me when you see British parents proudly telling the world how healthy they are because their child drinks 'Fruit Shoots' or similar rubbish - without actually realising that they're just as bad as carbonated drinks.

When the person (nadnad I think) said that her MIL wanted to give her little one tea, she meant tea, as in bog standard caffeinated tea. I presumed (maybe wrongly:rolleyes: ) that you were sticking to this point. If you were talking about herbal tea then obviously there is no caffeine in (most) of these, and I don't think many people would have much of a problem with their LO's having this as there is nothing bad in them.

edit: Yuk I also hate the fruit shoot things! There is no fruit in there that is any good! Lots of aspartame (don't get me started) and E no.s Sugar is the best of a bad bunch!

fernliebee

PBS- Just realised that you have specified British parents. Why? There are plenty of british parents who wouldn't dream of giving their LO's this rubbish, and also a lot of non- british people who would. I agree with the sentiments but by generalising you have undermined your point.

nadnad

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Who mentioned anything about caffeine?

I certainly didn't. I'm a great fan of herbal teas too.

It does amuse me when you see British parents proudly telling the world how healthy they are because their child drinks 'Fruit Shoots' or similar rubbish - without actually realising that they're just as bad as carbonated drinks.

i mentioned caffeine - and you were responding to my post. when i said mil wanted to give baby tea i meant ordinary tea not herbal teas - which i'm sure everyone but you understood. and my child gets milk or water to drink nothing more - i would never give my child fruit shoots.

and you really like generalising about the "british public" dont you?! if we're so bad why dont you go and post on a polish website where i'm sure everyone is just like you and nobody feeds their kids anything bad ever :rolleyes: .