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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read bringing up bebe, [b]snacks are an american thing.[/b]

I give a snack after nap. It's usually cheese or yogurt and/or fruit. Sometimes it's refused and I start dinner earlier than usual. No snacks other than that, and he devours each meal without a struggle. [/quote]

Snacking *all the time* might be an American thing, but other countries definitely have snacks.  I recall my French teacher fondly recalling her after-school goûter--which was usually a baguette stuffed with a chocolate bar.  The Brits have afternoon tea.  The Spanish have merrienda.  Eating something in the afternoon, especially kids having an afterschool snack, or adults having coffee/tea with a small treat, seems pretty common.  [/quote]

Yes, but it's not snacking all. the. time. Like one pp mentioned it's the constant snacking in the morning, at the playground, on the car ride back, before lunch, after nap, at church, before bed, the soccer practice.  That's where it's an American thing and she's right that is stems from boredom. [/quote]

Correct, if you'd read bringing up bebe then you'd know she covers this goûter. It's also why I do offer an afternoon snack after nap to try to extend dinner to a time where DH will be home and we can eat 1 meal altogether.

The general notion of always having snacks on you (multiple snacks! your bag is basically a vending machine!) and plying your children with them at the first sign of a whine is what's american. [/quote]

I'll have to read that book.  I'm not against snacks, per se, just the constant stream of them. It really bothers me. My kids are in school now and they have apples and PB or similar after they get home.  
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