Ice cream on holiday

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If you were on a sun holiday how often would you allow your kids have an ice cream or treat? Just curious, am having a disagreement with DH here.

What?? You would feed your kids sweetened,mprocessed crap a few times a day?
Aside fromnthe health crap,mwhere is your concept of a 'treat'?

Yep.

It's fine.

They don't eat two ice creams every day.

Normal rules don't apply on holiday, an extra ice cream some days and lazing about reading sunds pretty good to me.

Maximum once every other day.

Tween boys can get chunky in preparation for growth spurts. I have a girl but I remember seeing the boys getting bigger at 11/12/13 then going up and out. Idk if this is the case for your ds but unless he is really overweight, I wouldn’t worry about it.

And in your shoes there is no way I’d let your dh have his own way on the ice cream.

I had health obsessed parents and always went on super active holidays when I was growing up - and I still remember doing one in the Lake District on a scorcher of a summers day and managing to get three ice creams out of it

Generally I think 1-2 a day is fine on holiday. If your DS is overweight then number of treats should have been discussed and agreed upon in advance.

I'd be letting DH explain to DS why he can't have an ice-cream today.

Controversial - as an adult I wouldn't have ice cream once a day. It's so much sugar! I'd limit kids to a small scoop once every other or every third day (the latter seems less achievable though 😅).

I had three yesterday

@QuantumPanic what's the problem with the sugar?

I'm team every day, and not just on holiday.

Nip your husbands comments towards your son firmly in the bud right now.
He'll give the poor lad a complex that could last for life. A throwaway comment is enough to do serious damage and could land him with an eating disorder.

I know I sound hysterical but it's true.

Once a day. Twice and one of them is a big one is a bit OTT. You are teaching them to binge on holidays.

Yeah put your head in the sand. You are not doing him any favours. Do some parenting and limit his junk food intake. Your DH is right

What difference does that make?

Ugh. It's a holiday. Adults indulge on holiday. Nothing wrong with it. Your DH sounds ridiculous

Food should not be used as a reward or a punishment. No food should be seen as a “treat”. It should all just be equal.

Your attitude towards food will be the reason your DS is overweight.

Nothing wrong with eating ice cream, but lots wrong with viewing it as a treat.

Prob one a day
My dd is active and not overweight i would feel differently if she was. I was an overweight child and it has overshadowsled most of my life.

Holiday is not the time though is it?

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Your DH is behaving unhelpfully. Your DS is still very young and the burden of losing weight/being more active shouldn't be put on him - discuss it if he wants/needs to, but otherwise quietly make the changes that are needed without being negative to him. If your DH thought your DC wasn't being active enough, he should have suggested a fun activity that they could do together rather than getting at him.

One ice cream and one fizzy a day whilst on holidays. My kids still laugh about it now.

What difference does it make if you're on holiday in UK or in Spain?

OP herself said she didn’t realize her DS had become so big. I think one big ice cream a day is plenty even on holidays.

Maybe they mean because of the heat? That was my guess but not sure

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