Why I'm a big baddie!!

[MoonLady]

I don't give sweets to my mindees except as occasional treats and am always seen as a wicked witch at the local shop when they ask, or at parent/toddlers. The truth is that I think that you really are what you eat, and most of the sweets and snacks aimed at children must be made of rubbish because that's what their behaviour becomes if they are allowed brightly coloured sweets or snacks.
They aren't deprived, I stock up on organic snacks and fruit bars at the health shop, and they are available at Boots or supermarkets, and aren't much more expensive. We make bread, cakes and snack bars as part of our activities, using organic products. we grow things from seeds and plants in the garden so they know where food comes from.We have lots of fruit, fresh and dried.I've stopped their parents sending anything.
If I sound preachy I'm sorry but I feel so sorry for kids who can't control their behaviour and are condemned as naughty when I'm sure it's a reaction to the chemicals in their food.
(My mate's a youthworker and says when young people are banned from smoking or doing any illicit substances at the project they buy monster bags of well-known brightly coloured sweets to get a legal 'high' and then behave like idiots)
By the way I love chocolate and wine and food so this is not the self-satisfied posing of some boring b!! I'd welcome your comments as I know I'm regarded as peculiar by people at parent/toddler and wondered if any other childminders don't give out sweeties.

I don't give my mindees sweets, but then my dd who is 5 yrs has to earn 1 for herself (gets it on a sat) she has to eat all her lunch at school everyday and make sure her drink is finished. but I normally only give her chocolate.

Same stance, dont let them bring junk in as i dont want my child to eat it, make lots of cakes and as much as we can but dont do organic.

Only give chocolate to the children and not that often and not sweets at all.

No sweets here either, there are lots of other thigs you can give kids, my mindees like chopped dried apricots and dried cranberries, they look quite sweet like. I have never had any complaints.

We don't have 'junk' either and I am seen as the big bad wolf too!!!
I am particuarly fussy about what my dd eats and have a fit if MIL feeds her what I would deem 'crap'...
None of my minded children will be given sweets either, unless a treat. I will let them and I let DD have chocolate but not the real highly sugared stuff, just nice organic choc.
We have fruit, fruity bars and plenty of other treats without the crappy sweets on the market.
Some friends see me as an awfully mother as I won't let my DD have 'fruit shoots', jelly sweets etc... I'm not awful I just care about her!

Have you found cranberries that arent sugared? if so where from and the make please

Jellyjelly- I think holland and barrett do the unsweetened variety. I know they do the un-sulphered apricots.

We as a family aren't really into "sweets" as such but i am a selfconfessed chocoholic :o

So i suppose apart from sweets ds and mindees to a certain extent will be offered everything else. Some things do have e numbers but they are the things that I give not so often eg crisps, biscuits or the occasional fruit drink if out. I am lucky though ds' favourite snack is fruit dried or fresh so thats what he has most times :)

And unfortunately until organic produce comes down in price we certainly cannot afford to shop for it. :(

Another meanie here, no sweets, chocolate or pop, plenty of fruit for snacks.

I'm probably a bad childminder lol!

My under 5s have fruit/dried fruit for snacks, unless we bake cakes or biscuits which isn't too often as they are still pretty small.

My over 5s though... they get two biscuits a day each. After that they only get fruit.

I do treat the kids... if they've been REALLY good on a long walk to the shops I might get them a 10p bag of haribo or something small each, but this is fairly rare.

I don't really believe in extremes, but this is just my point of view.

We have huge tin of "crap sweets" that have been given to the DDs, but they have shown very little interest (apart from a mild obsession with Tootsie Rolls and jelly Belly ) and I regularly have to throw stuff out. But we do love chocolate.

So I think we're quite normal.

Also do lots of baking in this house.

ive found a huge pot of untouched sweets i a cupboard from halloween<img loading="lazy" class="inline-flex mumsnet-emoji" alt="Blush" src="https://www.mumsnet.com/build/assets/blush-Brh13p-7.png"> just goes to show how often we have sweets except my <img loading="lazy" class="inline-flex mumsnet-emoji" alt="Angry" src="https://www.mumsnet.com/build/assets/angry-BLHnmhGV.png"> mil keeps sending very sticky sweet toffee things that my dd thankfully doesnt like as they give her a sugar headache and stick in her teeth!! she knows not ot have too much sugar either as it does affect her and shes very sensible for 4.. although she does get cravings sometimes but that s usually when she`s had some recently .in fact she hasnt had any sweets for about 4 months probably.. and my ds just doesnt like sweets anyway ..

I too have the same view - no sweets, crisps or pop. We sometimes bake biscuits or cakes but not often. All my parents, bar one, have a similar view so not a problem. The one who feeds her child coke & sometimes sweets for breakfast gave me a large container full of lollipops for my mindees at Halloween - I reiterated, I don't give mindees sweets - she smiled & said keep them anyway. I think she felt sorry for me

I just can't resist chocolate buttons myself & my youngest son (19) cana't resist Haribos but they make him so hyper - I asked him one evening very seriously, if he had taken amphetimines - no he said just 2 packets of haribos !!

I don't give my mindees any sweets but they do get the occasional chocolate bar as a treat. They also get a plain biscuit at toddler group.

I also don't give them pop, this caused problems as eldest mindee (2 at the time) wouldn't drink anything apart from diet coke (his mum told me it's ok it's diet)

One morning my mindees both arrived with sweeta at half seven, they ate their breakfast then asked their mum (she used to come half an hour early and ust sit there while I fed her children and cleaned their teeth)if they could have their sweets and she said yes but share them with x (my dd) I couldn't believe it I told her that dd is not allowed sweets before school and she told me I was tight!!!! It was 7.30am.

I don't give my mindies sweets as a rule, but if they have occassionally been good and i think they deserve a treat then they will have a little chocolate bar.
They do have 3 biscuits as a snack but no more than that, and thats not every day.
I think sweets should just be a treat, and not something that you keep in the house all the time. They're no good for anyone.

i dont think your peculiar at all. i have had a constant battle with food for over 20years and i dread my children going through the same torments. i don't allow sweets etc, only on special occasions and then it is only chocolate as this out of jellies etc is better for their teeth. stick with it, the parents will be gratefull in the long run.