Family Nutrition
Sweets and Treats: How to Handle Dessert with Kids
You just finished lunch and your toddler is asking for cookies. What do you do? Now it’s 4 pm, and they’re asking for cookies again. It’s dinner time, and they’re asking AGAIN! Do you give in?
Kids can be very…persistent. (I kind of want to say annoying, haha!) We all love them dearly, but when you hear the same question for the 20th time that day, you just about want to run out the front door screaming and pulling your hair out.
So how do we handle dessert when sweets are found just about everywhere, kids love them, yet we as parents know that it’s not best for them to eat sugar all day every day?
