To be horrified at giving a 3 yr old crisps, chocolate biscuits, cheesy bites...

[starofastorath]

....at 10 in the morning? After having sugary breakfast cereals?

Have a bloody banana, Mrs smug pants.

Just quite shocked really. Bad parenting IMO.

Oh well, we can't all be as good as you can we?

How old are your children, OP?

As I said, so long as he's eating and I know he eats well 99% of the time, the other 1% my son can have anything he wants. Even at 9am.

Well ds2 is 4.
Today he has had:
Porridge and fromage frais and apple juice for breakfast
Fruit as snack at pre shcool
Cheese sandwich for lunch plus 2 pieces of homemade cake.
Banana and apple.
2 more pieces of cake.
Refused hot dinner so had carrot batons and another cheese sandwich and some ice cream.
Also water throughout the day.
I am sure most people would think that 4 pieces of cake in a day is excessive, but he is healthy and happy and eats well.
I am not a big fan of sugary breakfast cereals but even fruit has naturally occurring sugar in it (fructose)
Posters above make a good point...if the child is up early then needing a snack at 10 is not unusual.
As long as the child is healthy and hasn't got rotten teeth then what's the problem?

So the child DIDN'T in fact eat all three!

Child in question had 1 chocolate biscuit mid morning.

Non story.

I agree with you, it's an awful snack and seems daily.

My kids are at the same percentile weepingwillow but I just give them healthy stuff.

Bad parenting?!! oh get you parent of the year

Rice cakes!
They're fucking horrible

This is about a child having 1 chocolate biscuit as a snack?
Ffs....

Rice cake!

Now that is fecking unreasonable.

S'like eating deflavoured, dehydrated cardboard.

And has little nutritional value from what I can see.

Not to mention not filling at all.

BLERRRGGGGG!

Hate rice cakes.

It's probably better to give crap food in the morning when there is still time to use up the calories that day. No I wouldn't do it, yes i would hoik my judgy pants, no it's not my business, no I wouldn't bother posting on MN about it.

My ds1 loves rice cakes!
Ds2 however, is deeply suspicious of them :)

Fruit and rice cakes :o

Most 3 year olds have cottoned onto that big ol' con, haven't they?

Shocking.

QUICKLY, PLEASE CALL ESTHER RANTZEN!

Opened some apple flavoured rice cakes for DS in the car the other week. All of a sudden the air was filled with this awful burning smell. We thought the car was about to conk out before we realised it was the snack.

In terms of impact on blood sugar, rice cakes are just as bad as a biscuit btw.

CALL THE POLICE.

Tepid...I did try ds2 with rice cakes...
He just looked at me over his colouring book and said in his most withering tone;
"I don't think so mummy"

Mine cottoned onto that con when he was about 18 months, Tepid!

CALL SS.

Get off your high horse before you fall off

Do you give raisins and other dried fruit?

OP, have a and wipe the horrified look of your face

Horrified as seems terrible diet to have introduced to a child so young when surely they should be eating fruit/rice cake etc as a mid morning snack instead

Have you tried a rice cake?!

Fuck it. I also give the toddler sausage rolls and tinned ravioli. I accept that I am off to hell

Thank god you didn't see me feeding DS 14m cadburys animal biscuits in his buggy to keep him happy while we sledged in the park!

OP, it's not what I would ordinarily choose first no, but DS does manage to have a little 'treat' every day be it a few cheddar biscuits, some quavers, choc buttons etc. Sugar is good for growing children you know, just in moderation.