sweets

[aliceelinsmum]

Hi - I'm just in the process of weaning my 7 month old and my husband and I are discussing sweets / puddings. I have an 8 year old stepson who has sweets or icecream / cake after each meal, and I really don't want alice to be the same as she gets older. I don't mind yoghurt or fruit, and maybe a special treat one day a week. My dh says other kids get more sweets than this and she will stand out at school - is this true? Would that be too strict? Any ideas how to wean my stepson off so many sweets (if dh and his mum agree obviously) as its going to be v hard if he has sweets and she doesn't

i think that at her age you can pretty much avoid sweets for ages, years even. IME it is only once they are more aware of what other people are doing (like 18m - 2y) that they really start to be interested. you would be doing her teeth a massive favour if you just don't offer any ice cream, sweets or chocolate until she can ask for it with words!!!! by thay time she will have been enjoying fruit and yoghurt for a while and will still be happy with it as dessert. you've a LONG time before school peer pressure starts, so use it to develop her love of healthy puddings............

Mine get sweets on Saturdays.

My ds is 12mths and I realised the other day (whilst out with some friends and there kids) that actually he has only had chocolate twice !! And then that was a Hipp organic choc pudding !! I tend to give him breadsticks or rice cakes as a snack. Or fruit as pudding. I do have a packet of rich tea biscuits in the cardboard which has very rarely.

My ds has a step cousin who he sees when he is at my mum and stepdads and he asks for cake/sweets/ice cream all the time, and they let him have it.

Im trying to pluck up the courage to explain to my mum that I dont want my ds to eat things like that when he visits as he grows up (cousin is a very big boy).

Kids have plenty of time to develope a sweet tooth, so the longer you can put it off the better, I think

My kids are nearly 7 and 4. They have a few sweets/ chocolate at christmas, easter, birthday parties.......... and thats it

Except for special treat ice cream if we are out etc

We do have cakes,scones, flapjack etc - which I uaually make myself

Thats our way of doing things atm

HTH

PS - My los dont mind at all. DS does know that other kids have far more, but he is convinced this is bad for them and is rarely jealous!! Bless

LL I found the school issue worrying too but actually ds is so sure of the "evils" of too many sugary foods it hasnt been an issue - yet

Raisins however are - dd practically begs for a little box of them as a snack every day - I think Ill stop buying them then she wont be able to

Mine are 15, 13, 9 and 4 (DTs)

I'm very strict! I don't mind the occasional treat but I stick to the Saturdays 99% of the time.

This is one of those pfb things a bit.

My (dd) first didn't have any chocolate AT ALL until 2, then only a teeny bit and only at parties when unavoidable.

My ds2 has had chocolate and ckaes and ice cream he's 20 months, or

I think this...

We restrict sweets (meaning non-chocoalte sugar gummy bears/marshmellows etc) they don't get them unless randomly given them at parties. We don't buy they aren't in house.

We do buy ice cream and approx once a week they get knickerbockerglories (fruit and icream in a tall glass to thee and me).

I think sweets/chocolate bars at school age restricted to once a week pocket money time.

Puddings once a week ish ice cream otherwise other stuff like yoghurts and custard and jelly.

They get chocolate randomly and rarely - they don't expect it they go ooooooh when given its that rare.

Weaning son. hmm. well as your dd gets bigger she'll be after his sweets so you might encourage him to scoff straight away which is better for his teeth. All in one rather than over a longer period.

Or get him into a magazine so he spends pocket monety on thart.

I worry about children getting over concerned about sugar. My dd already says "I'm going to really brush my teeth aren't I?" after eating chocolate/cake anything she tastes which she feels is more sugary .

humzingers and school bars are trick treats for older kids (5??) when ds was 0-3 pears were lollys (upside down).