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Toddlers: 24 Months+
cchill01
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Dessert/Treats for older toddlers - how often?
cchill01
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How often do you allow your child to have treats? By treats, I mean - gummy snacks, cookies, candy, ice cream, pudding, chips etc.
We used to allow her something once a week. But, now that she's three, she remembers to ask every day after dinner. I usually let her have 2 Hershey's kisses or 12 M&Ms or 1 pack of fruit snacks. But, we've gone from once a week to once a day over the last couple of months. I'm trying to figure out if I should scale it back or if this is normal.
My mother completely banned all treats until I was 5 and I think it may have backfired because I have a major sweettooth. I'm trying to find a balance - so that she develops healthy relationships with food.
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Re: Dessert/Treats for older toddlers - how often?
I give a treat maybe 2-3 times a week, depending on the week. Sometimes we'll be out and someone will give him a sucker or he'll see me sneaking a cookie and ask for one. Sometimes he'll go a couple weeks without anything from me.
However, my ILs
On the order you're talking, a couple days a week. We eat pretty healthy otherwise, and I keep the sweets relatively healthy and in small portions. I don't really want to get into the "this food is good for you and this food is bad for you"
I eat waaay too much junk, but I don't give it to my kid.
He gets a sweet treat maybe once every few weeks. We give other kind of junky things to him though more often, like chips or those crackers with cheese in the middle. He lik
Usually once/week. We have dinner at my parents' house and that always includes dessert, so he gets a bit of that. He also gets a bunny graham cookie after going potty.
She has dessert on the weekends only.
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Lately it's a little more than usual since we are pting and her prize is either one or two M&Ms when she goes at home, she gets stickers at DC and nothing if we are out and about.
But she's fully trained now, so I'm phasing that out b
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Right now because I have a ridiculously picky eater she gets dessert (usually pudding) if she tries everything on her plate. Honestly, this happens maybe 1-2 times a week if we are lucky so she doesn't get it that often. Since I cannot physically make
Probably daily lately. If we have anything remotely "snacky" in the house she begs for it several times per day. She does eat very well at meals, though.
We don't keep a lot of treats at home, but for instance on Sunday she had some Easter candy
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I would say 4 days a week. My kids also got WAY more into asking for 'treats' after age 3 & closer to 3 1/2. They're much more aware of what treats & sweets are, can see into the pantry, etc better and just get the whole thing more. I don