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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we start things off badly now, with this idea that babies and toddlers need to snack all the time. 
  From the earliest days, my kids got three meals a day, and one snack (whether the snack was in the morning or afternoon depended on when their naps were. That is, when they had the longest awake stretch between meals.)

And they never ate on the run. Snacks were eaten at the table, just like meals. They didn't drink milk all the time like so many kids. Or juice. All they drank was water.

I know people will say I was a mean mom, but they never asked for snacks between times.  One result of the meal schedule was that when they did have meals or a snack, they ate more than their peers, because they'd actually waited long enough to work up an appetite. (This also helped them be less picky eaters, in my opinion.)

Call me a sanctimommy if you want, but I feel it worked well to snack less. (and yes, there were exceptions to the rule if there needed to be. But my kids never begged for food. They were too busy!) I think too many parents offer food as appeasement (you're upset? Want a yogurt?) or as a reward (you've been so good! Let's get an ice cream!)[/quote]

My mom's rule was that we could have fresh fruit and vegetables at any time, but if we didn't want those, we weren't really hungry and were not allowed a snack outside of set times.  Snack was served after school, and was cookies and milk or something.  We had dessert pretty much every night, but at least half the time it was fruit.  (The other times it was cake or ice cream.)  I do think that the constant snacking is a problem.  I'm okay with a mid-morning and mid-afternoon snack, but food every 30 minutes is too much.  I tell my kids that it's okay to feel hungry.  [/quote]

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