AIBU to give my children a treat everyday?

Normalising all food and drinks is best. It’s a snack.

I am completely hooked on Diet Coke and I do believe it was because I was never ever allowed fizzy drinks as a child. In fact until I was 18, moved out, and could buy it for myself!

Of course not, a little daily sweet treat will cause no harm at all especially if they brush their teeth well.

Life is short and often hard work, even for little one's without any real responsibility. Nothing wrong with allowing them a little sugary pick me up!

As long as it is not one these, every day.

We just try to do a balanced diet if all different types of food each day. That will include sweet items like biscuits or cakes but I don't really frame them as a treat. Some days we might not have any, other days they may have more.

Rightly or wrongly a 'treat' in our house is something like a Mr Whippy or some donuts if we're at the seaside. A treat is not something we have regularly and is just a different type of food that I suppose we wouldn't usually have 'access' to.

Every Year? Outrageous 😂

Mine have a treat every day sometimes two. I’ve thrown loads of seasonal treats out like Halloween sweets as I think it’s too much.

OP you need to be aware as the kids get older they are more likely to push the boundaries ans be eating all sorts of stuff the average MNer would judge to be 'highly toxic'.
One biscuit as others have said is not a treat by any stretch of the imagination.

Just as it should be!!

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We do what my grandparents did (and my DPIL) and have tea time at which everyone has a slice of cake, or about three biscuits or a flapjack or whatever is in the house. DC are busy, sporty and healthy (DS1 is now 6’ with a 28” waist…I’m trying to put some weight on him!). We’ve always been ‘all things in moderation’ (and for the smartarse teen ‘all legal things in moderation’. They don’t yet have any hang ups about food.

Please don’t worry, OP. I’m sure your kids are fine. Look at the whole picture of your care and feeding of your children and stop beating yourself with nettles about biscuits 💐
(Mum of 3 boys, 12,10 and 10, big biscuit fans, stupidly tall and rangey without an ounce of fat on them)

That’s not a treat on our house it’s just food. Everything in moderation and balance. What you’re talking about is of your children should have sugar free days? When you said treat I thought you meant a toy or a day out- it’s not that healthy to refer to sweet foods in that way and be quite so restrictive in my opinion.

You let your kids have treats every week?!

Mine have a single chocolate button once a year, on their birthday.

Ha ha. When does it become a treat, if there's chocolate on.it?

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One custard cream a week?

Small kids? They're 8 and 4 years not months. The only time I was this precious about sugar was with my PFB under the age of 2. By the time the third child was 8 months he was on bourbon biscuits lol.
Most kids aged 4-8 have WAY more sweet stuff than a paltry biscuit a day!

Oh I quite like a digestive biscuit!!! Would rather an Angel Slice right enough !!

It’s perfectly normal and totally fine to eat a biscuit or a small cake as part of a healthy balanced diet. If you’re thinking of it as a treat and really questioning if a digestive is ok for an 8YO and a 4YO then honestly I think you need to look at your own relationship with food.

It really isn't for small kids.

Treats should be once a week including parties.

Clearly everyone can do what they like with their own kids, and I doubt a custard cream a day is going to harm. If it's biscuits / cakes daily without exception, it's just a core part of their diet rather than a treat.

My kids (tween / teen) used to have UPF biscuits and cakes regularly, but I stopped buying them as a regular thing about 5 years ago. Now, if they want biscuits and cakes, they make them. When they were a bit younger, we'd help them with the oven if they did the rest, but me and my husband weren't sufficiently bothered by sweet stuff to bake frequently, and the kids' interest waxed and waned. If they want some kind of optional snack thing, they're happy enough to make some popcorn, have cheese and crackers, or whatever, from what's available at home. Occasionally, they or we will bother to bake something, which is then a treat. If we're going away for a holiday I might do some baking beforehand so there's cake / biscuits / flapjacks, and again, that feels like a treat, rather than a core part of their daily diet.

When my DS was growing up he was nwver bought sweeties or fizzy drinks as a lot of contemporaries were.
But I would buy him Matchbox car or a very small toy or a book from the charity shop. Perhaps not every day, but very frequently when we were out and about.

It's natural to want to treat your children OP. There is nothing wrong with what you are doing at all.

I think that sounds perfect OP. My two get a biscuit when they come home from school and a lolly or biscuit after dinner (which I think is too much but it's hard to stop it now). I am a teacher and some kids get far too much rubbish in their lunch boxes.

My dc had either a digestive biscuit and cheese, hummus and carrot sticks or a crumpet after school when little as we ate at 6.30pm, one underweight, one slim and ideal weight - adults now still same weight range

I try not to have loads of ultra processed foods in and offer better alternatives where possible. DD likes things like the Deliciously Ella dark chocolate almonds - I prefer to give things like that albeit she wouldn’t have them every day, probably once or twice a week max. She wouldn’t happily eat things like biscuits, but I don’t want her to end up with a crap diet like me!