If my son eats his dinner then yes he gets dessert.. We eat pretty healthy through out the day so I don't find anything wrong with that.. He'll pick either an ice pop, animal crackers, 2 cookies, popcorn, nut bar, etc.. Something like that will be his dessert choices...
we do dessert every night, unless she is acting up. Its anywhere from a small scoop of vanilla ice cream, to fuit, a cookie, really depends. I like something sweet after dinner so if she eats her dinner she gets sometihing sweet asd well.
I am so glad you asked this!! Growing up, I lived the same life as it seem your kids live. My mom still tells the story of a friend's mom asking to take me and my friend to McDonald's after kindergarten. I said I didn't want to go and just wanted to go home to have a tuna sandwich. :) There were always sweets around the house and had some sort of treat almost every night. I am very healthy, never over indulge, always been into sports, never been over weight and never had any food issues. I think raising kids that way is great and you're doing a great job!! I hope to raise my daughter the same way and with the same successful eating ideals.
I think its perfectly fine! My kids get alot of healthy things but I allow some sweets throughout the day. When I tell them no I always tell them why. You cant have X because you had Y earlier and we need to eat sweets in moderation. Every night I have ice cream and I look forward to it! Its my reward to myself for eating so healthy the rest of the day! Even then its not bad for me! I buy skinny cow ice cream cups, put some light cool whip on it, cut up some fruit and put Bran Buds on it. Bran Buds are a cereal with a ton of fiber in it, 1/3 cup has 15 grams in it and I put it on alot of things my kids eat, just a few sprinkles but it helps keep them regular. You are teaching your kids that you can eat anything you want to, as long as its in moderation!
In our family, we just dont care for sweets and desserts very often. So, on a daily basis, no.
I only have desserts around if we have guests around. We do go to the club for dinner on occasion and they are known for fabulas desserts and we might have something if we go there but for the most part, we don't eat sweets.
I don't think anything is wrong if a family serves dessert, it's just what you are used to and as long as you are eating healthy I see no reason for forbid it. I believe in eating whatever I want, in moderation.
We don't have dessert every day, but we do sometimes end the meal with frozen fruit and yogurt, or no-sugar added applesauce and vanilla yogurt with a sprinkle of cinnamon, or a smoothie made of fruit and yogurt and a tablespoon of instant pudding (these also make good popsicles).
Whatever you call it - as long as the overall diet is healthy, then I see no issue with dessert.
My kids have relatively healthy diets, eat fruits or veggies at every meal, and they get dessert every night after dinner too! If there is something else they want during the day that is really junky (like we were at a Medieval Fair the other day in the early afternoon and they wanted Funnel Cake) I told them that had a choice between that and having dessert after dinner. You are doing fine!
Every day my son (7) has some sort of a sweet--cookies, ice cream, popsicle, whatever. He's a healthy eater and I'm not concerned about it at all.
yes, everyday
We do just about everyday, but only after they eat their (usually healthy) dinner. I personally don't feel there is anything to be ashamed about having something sweet to enjoy.
My husband was "deprived" as a child of any sweets or sodas. Now at 37 he drinks lots of soda & I can have a hot plate sitting on the table with pot roast, real potatoes, veggies galore (all his favorite), but instead of sitting down to eat, he is in the pantry eating a bag of cookies like they were the last bag he will ever get. His twin sisters are the same way. Both of my SIL's are larger woman that have major eating issues with sweets. One will stop at several different stores to binge on sweets. One had gastro bypass surgery & the other had lap band surgery. Me on the other hand was never told as a child that I couldn't have sweets and although I like them I can control myself.
Obviously everyone is different but just something to consider that when you tell a child they cannot have something they want it even more & it sometimes can spill over into their adulthood.
We did the dessert thing on a nightly basis, before. They more than expected it. As soon as their last bite of dinner slid down their throats it was, "can I have dessert, now?" We started doing dessert every other night. Then I would purposely run out of icecream and they would have watermelon or cantalope, instead. Now they don't ask for it nearly as much. If they had a lot of snacks and dessert in the daytime I would absolutely forbid any dessert that night, unless it was fresh fruit, only.