How do you deal with constant snack requests (they’re driving me nuts!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks my kids are 3 and 5. They are too young g to be trusted to get their own food. I want to know what they are eating and foster controlled independence.

I don’t think you can expect to do uninterrupted work calls if you are in charge of a 3 and 5 year old. In an emergency, you give them a snack and a cartoon and you cross your fingers. But you can’t plan on them just hanging out independently.

[Anonymous]

If they're begging for snacks during a work call, you need childcare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're French. Snack time is after school. Otherwise it's breakfast, lunch and dinner.

As an American, I was shocked at what the French kids ate for a snack after school when my family was living in Paris. My kids would come home and have carrots and hoummus and their counterparts would be eating tons of processed chocolate spread on grocery store croissant.

Um. All chocolate is the result of a process. You sound like a complete and total dumbass.

I think what the PP means is the type of chocolate spread that has tons of palm oil mixed in, like Nutella.

In the Netherlands, it's white bread with butter and candy/chocolate sprinkles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are 3 and 5 and get their own snacks but I’m not too hung up on what they eat. They often grab yogurt, fruit, pretzels, etc or sometimes they will make a pbj or cheese sandwich.

I think it’s likely your kids can get their own food but you’ll have to relax your control over what a “good” snack needs to be.

Your 3 year old makes a pbj sandwich?

[Anonymous]

Meals, 3 meals a day

Once they get in school one optional fruit snack after school

[Anonymous]

I don’t worry much about snacking on weekends. On weekdays, they really don’t have much opportunity to snack since they get off the school bus at 4:40 ish and they usually eat dinner pretty early.

[Anonymous]

I have apples or berries for snacks.

[Anonymous]

Tell them no snacks, ever. If they ask you they get punished. It’s not healthy to snack.