Do you give your kids dessert?

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Sometimes. Sugar doesn't affect her too terribly. I usually have a mini candy bar or something after dinner so now Lucy does too. But her bedtime snack isn't sweet. More of a tooth thing than a behavior thing though

[Deleted]

Yes, they get dessert every night. It's their reward if they don't get three strikes during the day for being naughty. They have a small scoop of ice cream, a cookie or sometimes they'll get a candy (we are still working through the candy from Easter). It's a huge motivator for them not to get strikes!

[ECB]

Depends. DS tells us what he wants. Sometimes a cookie or icecream or a freeze pop. Sometimes he'll want a "2nd dessert" - which we tell him has to be something like raisins or grapes.

Sugar doesn't usually affect him, so I'm not worried about him having something sweet in the evening.

[eddy]

Not every night but it isn't uncommon to have a "treat" if we have somethng around.

Ice cream. This week I made brownies. Many nights it is nothing.

I also use it to bribe to clean his room or whatever.

[ElizabethBennet]

Almost never. She goes to bed pretty much right after dinner.

I'm not opposed to desserts, there just isn't time.

[Deleted]

Growing up I got some if I ate dinner. I remember fro yo mostly, maybe a cookie or something my mom baked.

Andy eats peanut butter bumper cereal if he is still hungry and ate all the food I have. Hehe

[JamaicanPineapple]

Not often, maybe 2-3 nights/week. Sometimes it's fruit, last night it was a Halloween Oreo as a treat because they ate a good dinner.

[Deleted]

Not often. Sometimes they get a cookie or fruit snacks if they cleaned their plates, because it never EVER happens.

Ds ate a good dinner and got a hostess cupcake the other day.

[cleo29]

Yes, not every night, but most nights. I have not noticed the sugar getting in the way of them sleeping. If they do not have something like ice cream, they might get some vanilla Greek yogurt with a small dollop of jam on top.

[thebuddhagouda]

If we have something special, he does, but we don't have a dessert every night kind of tradition. He'll often get fruit or something as a reward for eating his dinner because the kid loves fruit. Sometimes, it's a cookie if we happen to have some. Something small like that doesn't usually affect his bedtime. He also can't have ice cream anyway because of lactose intolerance.

[Deleted]

Not nightly, but I try to have a Sunday Dinner treat.

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Sept 26, 2013 12:33:59 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

We have dessert, though we don't usually have much in the way of sweets in the house so it's just a piece of fruit.

Um, that's a side dish.

TRY AGAIN.

[LLL]

nope but I'm not opposed to it.

[Deleted]

No, but she's had ice cream a couple of times at restaurants/on vacation.

But yeah, I'm usually more likely to give her a treat after lunch or after nap time.

[circa1978]

Only on seriously special occasions. But he does get fruit as part of dinner most nights.

[jenny1223]

FRUIT IS NOT A DESSERT! Though I'm fine with telling your kids it is.

[snipsnsnails]

Yep. pretty much every night. Freezer pops were a summertime dessert-hit. Now, we're on to a cookie or brownie or fruit cobbler type thing.

[Deleted]

Also, if we have a dessert in the house like cake, I don't eat until she's in bed. I don't want to share.

[daisybuchannan]

I hope to involve Connor in the kitchen, and if we bake something together I'll let him have a portion or piece as dessert. I'm not saying all desserts would have to be homemade, but growing up desserts were almost never in the house bc my mom said she had no control not to eat them all if we did. I get that, but I think it's a bad example to set for a kid when trying to establish a healthy relationship with food.

Tangent!

[Deleted]

not daily. but she does get treats sometimes, and not always after the last meal of the day as a regular thing. lately we've realized we've been giving way too many treats so we're scaling back. i'm rather out of control in the treat department and am setting a bad example.

[starlily]

Occasionally, but usually not at home. If we do it's typically an ice cream sandwich, cake, or a cookie.

DD loves eating a lot of fruit, so we've been fortunate that her sweet tooth has been satisfied by that so far.

[Deleted]

Oh, but if fruit is a dessert, I guess she has dessert at almost every meal. So, like 3 or 4 desserts a day. Lucky kid.

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Sept 26, 2013 12:38:36 GMT -5 @jezebel said:

Oh, but if fruit is a dessert, I guess she has dessert at almost every meal. So, like 3 or 4 desserts a day. Lucky kid.

CARROTS are dessert, TYVM.

[sonrisa]

She gets a graham cracker or animal cracker every time we leave nana's house (about once a week) and a chocolate chip if she pees on the potty (also about once a week) but those are the only cookies/candies that happen regularly. And the ubiquitous birthday treats at preschool.

[luckyval]

If he's had good table manners, uses his utensils and puts his plate in the sink, he gets two sugar wafer cookies

[polka]

Yes, usually.  It might be something like strawberries with sliced bananas or frozen grapes. Other times it is a treat, such as ice cream or cookie.   Depends on where we are at, if they finished their dinner, etc.

[starlily]

Occasionally, but usually not at home. If we do it's typically an ice cream sandwich, cake, or a cookie.

DD loves eating a lot of fruit, so we've been fortunate that her sweet tooth has been satisfied by that so far.

[eb777888]

Yes. He has a major sweet tooth so I give him a scoop of ice cream every night.

[luckyval]

Oh, and since we started the rewards chart thingy, he gets an ice cream sundae at the end of the week if he gets at least 25 stars

[CurlyQ284]

Most nights. I guess BM would bribe SDs to finish their plates with desserts. They came to us for summer and had a melt down when they were young because we didn't have dessert. We now have dessert but if we don't have it they are old enough to not melt down.