DH gives 2 year old ice cream every night.

[Anonymous]

If it's the only junk food, and no sign of weight problems, it's fine. If part of otherwise unhealthy diet, not. My DH brings DD candy every day after school plus has started dessert after dinner and often there is a morning or earlier treat, especially on weekends. I think it's definitely too much but I hate always being the bad guy

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't mind at all, especially if it was higher quality stuff with lots of fat.

[Anonymous]

It's a small phase Op so it won't last forever...maybe amother 2 weeks or so once the novelty wears off.

[Anonymous]

Whoa. I am shocked that every one thinks this is okay. Considering how many people grow up with unhealthy relationships to food, eating way too much sugar and junk all day long, I would never allow my child nightly ice cream. Your husband needs to clean up his own diet and that's on him, but it's your responsibility to teach healthy eating habits, and daily ice cream isn't healthy in anyone's book.

Now, before everyone slams me, of course I let my child eat ice cream. Just not every single night. It's summer, enjoy that weekly cone, just don't make it a daily habit. Sugar is addictive, the more you eat the more you crave.

[Anonymous]

What flavor?

[Anonymous]

Nope, not okay. A daily sugar dessert is unnecessary at best, and unhealthy at worst. This is a bad habit to get in. Find other ways to bond with your child.

[Anonymous]

Please. A small ice cream with his father is not going to damage this child, nor is it going to set up unhealthy associations with food. Assuming that both parents engage with the child in other meaningful ways, I have a really hard time seeing how something like this is a problem.

My 7yo comes home from school during the week and has a small ice cream cup as a snack after school. It's her thing. It's either chocolate or vanilla, in the single serving cup. She eats it, she reads, she plays with her toys, and then we eat dinner as a family. That she has her little ice cream ritual after school hasn't made her averse to other food or spiked her sweet tooth or caused her to gain weight. It's literally the only sugary thing that she eats, and I don't think it's any more irresponsible than me having a vanilla latte at 10am with my colleague.

Some of y'all need to educate yourselves on how unhealthy relationships with food are formed. In this case, I'd strongly bet that the people freaking out about an ice cream are more likely to create unhealthy food associations in their children than the child's father with his ice cream treat.

[Anonymous]

Express your concerns and suggest a compromise to put your troubled mind at ease. Instead of every night, every other night. Can't have everything you want but then again neither can your DH so you two are going to have to find a happy medium. It's not a quadratic equation to be solved its a simple negotiation to be made.

[Anonymous]

Express your concerns and suggest a compromise to put your troubled mind at ease. Instead of every night, every other night. Can't have everything you want but then again neither can your DH so you two are going to have to find a happy medium. It's not a quadratic equation to be solved its a simple negotiation to be made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please. A small ice cream with his father is not going to damage this child, nor is it going to set up unhealthy associations with food. Assuming that both parents engage with the child in other meaningful ways, I have a really hard time seeing how something like this is a problem.

My 7yo comes home from school during the week and has a small ice cream cup as a snack after school. It's her thing. It's either chocolate or vanilla, in the single serving cup. She eats it, she reads, she plays with her toys, and then we eat dinner as a family. That she has her little ice cream ritual after school hasn't made her averse to other food or spiked her sweet tooth or caused her to gain weight. It's literally the only sugary thing that she eats, and I don't think it's any more irresponsible than me having a vanilla latte at 10am with my colleague.

Some of y'all need to educate yourselves on how unhealthy relationships with food are formed. In this case, I'd strongly bet that the people freaking out about an ice cream are more likely to create unhealthy food associations in their children than the child's father with his ice cream treat.

+1
My kid has dessert every night and doesn't go crazy for sweets or even ask for them at other times of the day. He eats a good variety of fruits and vegetables and will stop eating when he's full, including leaving part of his dessert if he's had enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. I am shocked that every one thinks this is okay. Considering how many people grow up with unhealthy relationships to food, eating way too much sugar and junk all day long, I would never allow my child nightly ice cream. Your husband needs to clean up his own diet and that's on him, but it's your responsibility to teach healthy eating habits, and daily ice cream isn't healthy in anyone's book.

Now, before everyone slams me, of course I let my child eat ice cream. Just not every single night. It's summer, enjoy that weekly cone, just don't make it a daily habit. Sugar is addictive, the more you eat the more you crave.

That is the saddest thing I've ever read.

[Anonymous]

It really warms my heart that almost all the responses are advocating balance and a genuinely healthy relationship with all kinds of food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. I am shocked that every one thinks this is okay. Considering how many people grow up with unhealthy relationships to food, eating way too much sugar and junk all day long, I would never allow my child nightly ice cream. Your husband needs to clean up his own diet and that's on him, but it's your responsibility to teach healthy eating habits, and daily ice cream isn't healthy in anyone's book.

Now, before everyone slams me, of course I let my child eat ice cream. Just not every single night. It's summer, enjoy that weekly cone, just don't make it a daily habit. Sugar is addictive, the more you eat the more you crave.

That is the saddest thing I've ever read.

No one can deny that Americans are huge. Daily ice cream is not going to help this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. I am shocked that every one thinks this is okay. Considering how many people grow up with unhealthy relationships to food, eating way too much sugar and junk all day long, I would never allow my child nightly ice cream. Your husband needs to clean up his own diet and that's on him, but it's your responsibility to teach healthy eating habits, and daily ice cream isn't healthy in anyone's book.

Now, before everyone slams me, of course I let my child eat ice cream. Just not every single night. It's summer, enjoy that weekly cone, just don't make it a daily habit. Sugar is addictive, the more you eat the more you crave.

That is the saddest thing I've ever read.

No one can deny that Americans are huge. Daily ice cream is not going to help this.

I eat ice cream virtually every night (and I'm not talking a single teaspoon). I weigh 110, if that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. I am shocked that every one thinks this is okay. Considering how many people grow up with unhealthy relationships to food, eating way too much sugar and junk all day long, I would never allow my child nightly ice cream. Your husband needs to clean up his own diet and that's on him, but it's your responsibility to teach healthy eating habits, and daily ice cream isn't healthy in anyone's book.

Now, before everyone slams me, of course I let my child eat ice cream. Just not every single night. It's summer, enjoy that weekly cone, just don't make it a daily habit. Sugar is addictive, the more you eat the more you crave.

That is the saddest thing I've ever read.

No one can deny that Americans are huge. Daily ice cream is not going to help this.

Americans are overweight due to constant misleading messages on nutrition, eating out of control
Portions, food subsidies on food with little nutrition, and a whole bunch of other big factors. It's not an ice cream cone a day that is ruining everyone.