Dessert every day?

[Anonymous]

I make cake, brownies, cookies, homemade pudding, pies, but not daily or even weekly. Maybe twice per month? That lasts a few days- a week. They can have daily then. Otherwise, they can have a little something sweet every day. I always have some store bought treats on hand such as caramels, chocolate covered cherries, peanut butter cups.

[Anonymous]

Are these not decisions you can make yourself?

[Anonymous]

Yes, popsicle or ice cream every day, sometimes with a piece of cookie in it. But my kid has a pretty healthy palate and likes to eat plenty of veggies and fruits. If he's had a cupcake or popsicle at school for some reason I might limit nighttime dessert to fruit.

[Anonymous]

Yes! My 11 year old eats Oreos, mint chocolate chip ice cream or an ice cream sandwich every night. She eats plenty of healthy foods all day long. She is super active. Her friends with restrictions hide food, or gorge themselves when they get to our house because they don't have self-control. Their parents have total control over what they eat. Not a healthy long-term model in my opinion.

I grew up with dessert every night and adjusted as an adult because my metabolism is not as fast.

[Anonymous]

Yes, because it's the bribe that gets her to read every day (reading is very hard for her). But I watch the calories -- a mini cone with 120 or 130 calories, or a small dish of ice cream.
I grew up only eating desserts on weekends in early childhood, I think, but by high school, had a Little Debbie every day.
I still eat a little something sweet most days.

[Anonymous]

Of course!

Life is short.

[Anonymous]

Dessert everyday and twice on Sundays.

Look, you get one life. As kids get older they often don't have as much of a sweet tooth, but the way taste develops means that when you're a little kid, there are few things that taste better in life than just straight sugar. Get good desserts that aren't just processed crap and let them enjoy it!

[Anonymous]

Yes! Often it’s fruit but most days we have something properly sweet, like pancakes for morning snack or ice cream in the afternoon.

[Anonymous]

Mine do. In summer or on weekends, they often have lunch dessert and dinner dessert.

[Anonymous]

At least once and often twice per day. My grandmother ate like that and lives to be 100 and healthy well past 100. Desert is grand. I’ve been lucky that I don’t have weight issues and neither do my kids. I might take a different approach if they were overweight. Also, it’s dessert, which implies that i you’ve already eaten a meal that is not sweets.

When they were younger I had a “must have veg” rule. But as they are teens now I’m not really enforcing any food rules.

[Anonymous]

Yes, kids have dessert every day. Sometime more than once per day on vacation.

I work on them being mindful of when they are full. This means that they don’t always finish their dessert (or dinner) and that’s perfect - they should be paying attention to when their bodies are full. Sometimes they ask for more dessert, and if they are really hungry (they have some fruit first) they can have it.

My parents restricted dessert and while I have healthy eating habits as an adult, as a kid I was fixated on sweets. I don’t think restricting sweets was a healthy approach.

[Anonymous]

Yep! Every dinner and most lunches too. That’s how I grew up and I have no overweight family members - we live to late 80s at least.

[Anonymous]

I guess I’m one of the few who disagrees. I think restricting to one small piece a day actually feeds the appetite for sweets and can encourage fixating on it. I buy sweets or bake once in awhile and we eat what we want until it’s gone. I don’t believe in daily sweets because you do become accustomed to eating sugar and your body craves it. I grew up eating fruit for dessert.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, kids have dessert every day. Sometime more than once per day on vacation.

I work on them being mindful of when they are full. This means that they don’t always finish their dessert (or dinner) and that’s perfect - they should be paying attention to when their bodies are full. Sometimes they ask for more dessert, and if they are really hungry (they have some fruit first) they can have it.

My parents restricted dessert and while I have healthy eating habits as an adult, as a kid I was fixated on sweets. I don’t think restricting sweets was a healthy approach.

Weird but ok

Not PP but don’t see anything weird here. “Stop eating when you’re full” is pretty standard guidance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes! My 11 year old eats Oreos, mint chocolate chip ice cream or an ice cream sandwich every night. She eats plenty of healthy foods all day long. She is super active. Her friends with restrictions hide food, or gorge themselves when they get to our house because they don't have self-control. Their parents have total control over what they eat. Not a healthy long-term model in my opinion.

I grew up with dessert every night and adjusted as an adult because my metabolism is not as fast.

Don’t judge. You don’t know. Plenty of kids lack self control with “junk” food regardless of how frequently it is offered. Perhaps the parents restrict bc child needs some limits.