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Exposure is almost inevitable once they are in school and have parties and go to parties. I live by ‘everything in moderation’. So while you don’t have to go out and buy Oreos, occasionally having a treat you guys bake together was our preference when they were younger and giving them occasional exposure.
I was shocked to see so much candy and juice boxes at the schools “Valentine’s Day” party. I don’t know what I expected. I purposefully didn’t bring anything to celebrate her birthday in November because I thought not bringing sweets would be respectful. I guess they are a little liberal for parties.
So just today husband and I were having this conversation. We went to get coffee with my 3 yo, and he saw strawberry frosting donuts and asked for one. He never cared for one before but we got it for him to try! He had less than half of the donut all the time saying "it's yummy" and then, my tummy is full. My toddler does have strong preferences and dislikes but we try to not police food as much. I mean this kid can live on berries and oranges, and those sumo oranges probably have same amount of sugar as Oreo cookie!
I can’t find the right emoji - but I’m raising my coffee cup to you as a parent.
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Will be very difficult to restrict all exposure to “junk food”. We choose what we keep in our home, which makes it so her day to day options don’t include a lot of those foods, but if we are at a party or something is offered at school for a birthday or whatever we never prevent her from eating it.
Daycare gives the 1 year old cupcakes at least once a month for some kids birthday 🙄. He has more sweets there than at home.
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My daughter’s daycare gave her a cupcake because it was a birthday when she was 10 months old! I was livid.
One, because I felt like that was too young.
Two, they literally took away the moment of her experiencing her first sweets on her first birthday from me.
Around that age our girl started going to birthdays and it just wasn’t practical to keep her sugar free anymore. We have it that they only get juice boxes at parties. And we read food labels on absolutely everything.
Low sugar diet = happy child.
Lucky you!
My 2.5 year old gets cake at birthday parties, and dessert for a special occasion. Honestly, knowing how her father eats (sweet tooth) we really wanted to make it not the norm. We know it’ll change a bit as she gets older.
Junk food isn’t a snack. It’s a treat. I’m so tired of seeing kids with takis, cotton candy, and straight up candy for snacks. It’s not a snack!
Chief
Agree! We explicitly call things like this “sugar treats” and talk about how they are delicious but a “special day” food as opposed to an “everyday food”.
My children got introduced to sweets I think at the age of 2 from their grandparents, however we established a clear boundary that chocolate and other sweets should be given as a reward for something. Now that they've grown older, we still keep with that philosophy, however we do occasionally give chocolate for no reason, such as having an ice cream when we're out.
I let my kid (6yo) have one piece of candy after dinner. But he is fiend for it and I hate it. It’s always “can I have candy?” as soon as he finishes. I’m not one to keep much of it in the house but he got a taste of it from daycare (in home), birthday gift bags and Halloween. One family brought Krispy Kreme doughnuts for their kids bday to his daycare, most of the kids are under 4yo! I was like my son does not need that, the daycare provider wasn’t thrilled either.
Anyway, I try not to be too restrictive as they may lie and hide it in the future but I don’t let them gorge on it either. My son got sick after eating cotton candy one time, not sure if it was the cause, but I blamed it on that and he did too so no more cotton candy. Also, blamed difficult BMs on too much candy around Halloween. 😬 I said this is what happens when you eat too much and why it needs to be limited.