What age were your kids allowed sweets?

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Just wondering if no sweets before 3 y o was unusual?

DD4 was allowed them after she turned 2

Oldest child or a child with siblings ?

I assume sweets means biscuits, chocolate, cake, gummy sweets etc

No like haribo, candy floss smarties etc

DS1 had them a lot later then DS2 and DD. He was probably around 2.5 but had choc buttons probably around 18m-ish? My other 2, once they started weaning they'd be having the odd button and sweets once I wasn't scared they'd choke 🤣

Only child here and he's been allowed sweets or chocolate since before he was one. Everything in moderation is the mantra in this house.

My eldest had chocolate on occasions from around 2 and sweets from around 3. She got invited to parties from 3 (not that often) but there would be sweets there and all the other children were eating them, otherwise I wouldn’t of let her until she was abit older.

I imagine youngest DC will have sweets sooner though.

Eldest had chocolate first when she was two, but had had cake and ice cream - dessert type things - before that. Has had sweets at a couple of parties when she was maybe 3.5, but she didn’t like them and I wouldn’t give them to her even now. However at a party I wouldn’t stop her from having what was offered to her, for example.

Youngest has just turned two and has had chocolate a lot younger than DD1 was, obviously. No sweets though. I wouldn’t want to let her have any before the age of three.

Both my kids didn't have chocolate (to my knowledge) until they were 1. I think I avoided haribo type sweets/smarties/ things to choke on until nearer 3 (when I was confident they could give stuff a good chew) but they had a lot of chocolate type snacks instead.

It would be unusual in my group of friends with children to not have sweets, even in moderation, until they were 3.

Nursery gave mine chocolate buttons from when they were weaned. Really pissed me off. We gave them chocolate from around 2.5/3. Sweets, we never bought them so I think it was when they started school and kids brought them in for birthdays.

Proper sweets and chocolate from sweetshop: not until the older one started school. And only once a week then. But occasional biscuits, fruit bars, and cake as part of normal diet from toddlerhood. They are in their 40s now and have still never had to have fillings. DH and I were thought to be too strict, but we were given unlimited sweets as post-war children and we both have terrible teeth - more filling than tooth. They didn't like it as children, but they are both very grateful now!

Once dc1 went to reception, there was no avoiding it. So 4.5. They give out haribo treat bags at parties and in wrap around care they are given buttons and other sweets occasionally.

We are really strict with sugar and juice. No added sugar before, only natural sugar found in fruit. Before 1.

By 2 we did allow a tiny bit of cake or ice cream on special occasions.

Would blitz berries, banana, yogurt together to make Popsicles and still do. They are used as treats and desserts.

Now he is nearly in senior school, much more relaxed especially in holidays and days out. But, isn't allowed pop or sodas.

I do lots of baking so I would say home baked goods from a year/18 months.

Chocolate - 18 months, it was Christmas, but not on a regular basis.

Haribo - she actually hated it until she was 6/7 I think.

We have normally sweets at home but DD had to ask and knew rules like not before dinner or not after brushing teeth.

Cakes from age 1, sweets from about 18m as a treat or bribery! Now a healthy 14 year old with excellent teeth and a healthy weight. Everything in moderation. I'm a form believer that anything banned is more likely to become an addiction later on.

Ban it for too long and it becomes forbidden fruit that they will then gorge on at every opportunity.

I think my dc had the odd chocolate button from about 18m or thereabouts.

My daughters 2 and a half and I'm not giving her sweets. She can have a biscuit or some cake but no sweets yet. Husbands a dentist so cake was off the cards for a while but now it's fine as he likes going for s coffee and cake with her

My eldest first had sweets at 2.5, I hadn’t intended to give him them that early but we were stuck in a never ending traffic jam and he had gone through all of his snacks and was being very grumpy so gave him a chocolate button ever 10 mins or so which made him happy. After that he occasionally got chocolate but no Haribo etc until he started nursery at 3 and started going to birthday parties which all had Haribo galore. He did have the odd biscuit or cake though from about 1.5.

My second, well totally different story, her brother fed her some chocolate at about 6 months old and because he had it, and she was around, it was difficult to stop her having the occasional bit.

Its funny though because my eldest is 10 and obsessed with chocolate and sweets whereas my youngest can take or leave them but that’s probably just more to do with personality.

My PFB didn’t gave any sweets/chocolate/cake until his third birthday! Second child was about 13months for cake and chocolate

Why is cake off the cards?!

DD is nearly 5 and has been allowed the odd treat of chocolate buttons, ice cream or a biscuit since she turned 2ish. We never buy her sweets like Haribo or lollies.

Dc1 first had sweets aged 3.5 - she first had them at birthday parties, and Covid meant she didn't go to any before then. I don't think it's true about it becoming forbidden fruit - she doesn't seem interested in gorging on them and she takes months getting through a trick or treat stash, Easter Eggs or Christmas chocs. Usually we end up throwing out half her Easter eggs, we still have sweets from Halloween.

DC2 has ended up eating sweets etc from a much younger age, probably under 1 as DC1 passes her food.

DD1 was over 3 by time she had sweets like haribo, DD2 was probably younger as I was more relaxed with everything by then. Candyfloss I still hate and would rarely allow!

I think from around 18 months, it was definitely more limited though than what he is allowed now.

My son doesn't like sweets , but he does like chocolate and ice cream. He also loves fruit and yogurts though , so it isn't all bad.

The one thing I won't allow him to have yet is fizzy pop, he's nearly 5.

Mine had chocolate quite young, probably before 2 on occasion. They didn't like sweets! Youngest started trying sweets around 8 or so, and eldest still hates them and he's an adult now!