Kids - Sweets and Chocolate

allIcouldwishfor

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

What's wrong with giving a child tea? It doesn't need sugar, or milk - but giving a child the ability to drink various teas can reap health benefits later on in life.

Supernanny would probably find some pseudo-medical reason as to why it shouldn't be allowed, though.

As well as containing caffeine, tea also interferes with the absorption of iron.

mspig

you have to be very careful though if your going to ban sweets etc as going from experiance i went to school with a girl whos mum wouldn't let her have any sweets, chocs, crisps or anything else sugary(even on peoples birthdays at school), she left home at 16 saying her mum was far to srict and that she was going to eat what she wants from now on - i still see her about and she is clinically obese, as it was like some kind of freedom that all these things she had been banned from she could now eat.

My sister has a routine where hers are allowed to choose 5 sweets per night afer dinner(the penny chews type) and once its turned 4pm they are only allowed milk to drink, and no fizzy atall, but i'm more relaxed where they can have one bag of crisps per day(but theres no set time on when they can have them), there allowed one chocolate bar a day( i only buy the mini bars), and sweets are rare in this house as i don't buy them, but they can have them if others buy them, fizzy is allowed at weekends only, and its only then that i buy it.
However my other sister is the complete opposite and her kids eat nothing but rubbish - loads of sweets chocs, cakes crisps(that bad that she went out one night and when she got back the kids had ate all the chocs etc she had bought for christmas) the funny thing is though that there all really skinny kids.

I would say try to cut the amount the have down without making too much of a deal about it.

gemz20

my son is nearly 6 and knows sweets are a treat i dont think your to strict, during the week after dinner he has a yoghurt or fruit only at the weekend is he allowed a sweet and that is if he has behaved, we only drink flavoured water at home, if we go to a party he can each the sweets etc there and very occasionly take him to mcdonalds so he looks forward to these things rather than just expecting them all the time