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Stopping kids from eating too many sweets
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How do you get kids to adopt a healtier eating style? Does it really help to feed them only "healthy food" from the beginning, or does that only serve to drive them to eat anything unhealthy they can get their hands on the first opportunity they get, like friends' birthday parties?
I don't know what the answer is. I know you can't 'protect' them from sweets forever, if that is the right word. I am of the school of thought that, if they don't have too many or so many they don't eat their dinner then that's fine but also find that as soon as sweets are introduced, their consumption of them creeps up. I wish I did have the self discipline to say not at all but the trouble is that I like them too so can't keep them out of the house altogether! 
I also find fanatical healthy eaters annoying so the rebellious side of me refuses to cut them out altogether as I think there are worse things they could be doing than eating sweets.
I also find fanatical healthy eaters annoying so the rebellious side of me refuses to cut them out altogether as I think there are worse things they could be doing than eating sweets.
When I was a child we never had a 'treat cupboard' or 'sweetie drawer'.
There was no crisps or sweets before dinner or bedtime, but we weren't deprived of them (if that's the right word!).
As an adult I enjoy my sweets and crisps too, but in moderation- I don't feel the need to go crazy for them and I still follow the rule of not-before-dinner
There was no crisps or sweets before dinner or bedtime, but we weren't deprived of them (if that's the right word!).
As an adult I enjoy my sweets and crisps too, but in moderation- I don't feel the need to go crazy for them and I still follow the rule of not-before-dinner
Like Aelskar we didn't have a sweet jar and there were no sweets before dinner or bed, but we were allowed them as a treat and I don't think I grew up with a particularly unhealthy attitude towards them. I think it's more a matter of setting a good example rather than simply rules, because I think children ultimately learn better from 'do as I do and not just as I say'.
I never openly encouraged either of our children to eat sweets or unhealthy foods. They were allowed them every so often but not daily
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