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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like my toddlers are snack monsters. And I think I created it. After daycare, they immediately expect a snack on the way home - usually raisins, goldfish, pretzles...something carb-ish out of a bag. They sometimes want a lot of it. On the weekends when we're out and about, I feel like I'm always handing them snacks.

So, my question is, how many snacks are your kids eating? Do you have a "snack time" like they would at daycare or can they get a snack whenever they want? And what are you giving them that is not Goldfish? [/quote]

I'm in the middle of this, too. It's so frustrating!! My nearly 3-year-old DD demands 'SNACKS!' all the way home, and it drives me bananas. I try very hard to stay calm and before we drive home from daycare I open her lunch bag and say 'oh, I see you have grapes (cut in half), oranges and blueberries leftover from lunch. Would you like one of those before we start driving?' She'll usually say 'Yes please! ORANGES!'

If she demands goldfish, crackers, pretzels, etc. I tell her that she can have some when we get home, but we don't have those in the car.

I find myself repeating (over, and over, and over again): "I hear you and I know you want goldfish, but we just don't have them in the car. You can have them when we get home."

It sounds like I'm so calm and collected when typing this out, but trust and believe it's probably the most stressful part of my day. [/quote]

Oh man re: stress. We are literally in the same boat. Very stressssffffulll. Demands![/quote]

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