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(non-clicky poll) ice cream for breakfast?
I just saw a fb friend's photo of her three year old eating a bowl of ice cream. Cute. But then the description/caption reads "when he wakes up smiling and asking sweetly for ice cream for breakfast how can I say no?"
So, would you allow a three year old to eat ice cream for breakfast?
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Re: (non-clicky poll) ice cream for breakfast?
my mom used to make us "breakfast pudding" which was literally vanilla pudding. homemade, so it was almost all milk and eggs. and then she let us dump colored sugar all over it.
i am totally going to do that. f icecream, that's one of my favorite childhood memories.
Nope...I'm not interested in dealing with the sugar crash that would soon follow. The first meal of the day is very important, your body has fasted all night long, why stuff sugar in it at that time?
I also don't think a mother should be caving into a 3-year old's request for ice cream for breakfast. Speaks highly of her parenting skills.
seriously? why would it be wrong once in a while? and sincerely, most breakfast foods are sugar. i am not going to be some weird no-fun mom who makes her kids eat health food all the time. my son loves oatmeal and fruit and yogurt, but i see nothing wrong with giving him a bite of coffeecake today.
oh, I'm sure. It was neapolitan with chocolate syrup on it in the picture. And I've seen her reference ice cream for breakfast once before.
I agree with Ivana, while that fb friend seems to be aligned with you bstrangely. I feel like the three year old doesn't really understand that ice cream is a bad choice for breakfast and if he gets to have it on ocassion, how will he ever know that it isn't a breakfast food?
I also just think breakfast is an important meal. I don't always eat well, but breakfast is always healthy.
Icecream sounds wacko. But I'd do chocolate chip pancakes, so I can only give a squinty side-eye for ice cream.
My mom occationally let us have treats for breakfast.
We always had icecream cakes for our birthdays, and the morning after a birthday she would let us have left over ice cream cake for breakfast.
And there was the occational scoop of ice cream over a hot poptart (I know it sounds gross, but don't knock it till you've tried it).
So I guess my answer is yes. Occationally it is fun to break out of the shell and let them do something you normally wouldn't do, and they will remember that one time you let them do something crazy and think back on it and smile.
um, because theoretically, he'll know what a treat is.
will you not have birthday cakes for the same reason?
at any rate, i am not aligning with any fb friend that you keep adding details to. i just know that it doesn't hurt a child to have sweets from time to time. and i also maintain that some ice creams are not any worse than a poptart or any other treat food that i've seen people describe giving here.
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Totally. Once in a blue moon, of course, but why not? We used to have cake for breakfast on our birthday and I still grew up knowing it wasn't breakfast food.
Also, it's not caving to a 3 year old's demands if they ask nicely and you decide "hey, what not?" It's a bit silly to assume the woman is a pushover because she allowed it.
good points.