https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:27:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286338 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:36:08 +0000 T.H.O.U. 286338@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My SIL limits her kids to only getting dessert on Friday and Saturday nights. They can have a bed time snack the other days but not ice cream etc. Its nice that it makes it a bit of a special treat (rather than every night) but it also makes them go a bit crazy for it when they do get sweets. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286336 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:35:29 +0000 PurplePumps 286336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, I wasn't allowed to drink soda or have instant noodles or any sort of junk except on very rare occasions. I remember not being allowed sodas on a regular basis until I was in junior high, and by then, I didn't even care for it anymore. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286302 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:21:43 +0000 Modern Daisy 286302@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, I wasn't allowed to have any candy, soda, junk food or sugary cereals until I was a teenager. Even then my Mom wouldn't buy them, I was forced to use my own money if I wanted junk - which thankfully I didn't </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286300 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:21:27 +0000 Sammyfab 286300@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our house was stocked with junk food and we ate fast food regularly as kids. My friends loved coming over because we had the best food! My dad always packed us healthy lunches though.</p> <p>Luckily (thanks in large part to genetics), my sisters and I are all perfectly healthy and we practice good nutrition. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286264 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:05:02 +0000 cvbee 286264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There wasn't a limit for me and i ate such ca-ca as a kid. At 10 years old I can remember having a slushee and mars bar on break in between my dance classes. It's a wonder I lived. </p> <p>But totally on my own, I went the other way and have been eating uber-healthy from about age 14 and on. It might be because I was a dancer and wanted to be skinny, which in itself isn't actually healthy, but I did manage to stay healthy all the years since then. (With a few years of bad eating and um, drinking, as a young adult). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286201 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:33:53 +0000 BoogieBea 286201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wasn't into sweets growing up so my parents didn't have to worry about too much candy. I did like salty snacks. My parents never limited them as they are snackers themselves. But they always made sure we had healthy home cooked meals for most of our meals. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286195 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:31:43 +0000 chopsuey 286195@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep. We never had snacks or junk at home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286175 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:25:47 +0000 Boogs 286175@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No real limiting. I really think the key is that as kids we were much more active than many kids nowadays. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286169 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:21:05 +0000 Weagle 286169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. My mom and I both would rather eat snacks than meals. My dad didn't like us to snack too close to dinner, but I think that's just because of the way he grew up. But snacks were never kept away from me. And I just don't like sweets that much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286167 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:19:21 +0000 Mrsbells 286167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yes my parents would limit how much candy or sweets we could have. but they let us keep the change from our lunch money and we would sneakily buy sweets on the way home but not tell. So I cant blame anyone that I had to have so much dental work to repair all my cavities </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286165 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:18:04 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 286165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom's a dental hygienist, so she definitely limited the snacks in our house. We were only allowed to have one soda a day, and other than that, it was all sugar free stuff. Even our cereal was limited. I'm glad she did it, I have such a sweet tooth that I would have easily become overweight if she didn't restrict what I ate. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286163 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:16:00 +0000 sunny 286163@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, my parents bought us all kinds of treats but we self regulated somehow! None of us kids really overindulged because we'd get tummy aches. I remember Entenmanns cookies were my favorites... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286158 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:12:57 +0000 Minnie_Girl 286158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hardly! My mom doesn't like cooking. While we'd have a balanced dinner, there was always a dessert (because my family is obsessed with chocolate/dessert), and we were ingesting lots of sugars and carbs for other meals. We lived off of cereal, pop tarts, PB&amp;J, and crackers as kids. We grew up skinny, but not healthy either. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286079 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:39:49 +0000 LuLu Mom 286079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had sweets, but they were limited for sure. She made sure we ate healthy, even though I had the biggest sweet tooth known to mankind. I could seriously sniff out where she was hiding the chocolate/candy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286072 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:37:47 +0000 mrskc 286072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, my mom did. I think it was more of a money thing since there was 4 of us. We were allowed 1 soda per day. We could have one dessert after dinner and it was limited to 3 cookies or if we had ice cream, 3 scoops of ice cream. I still find myself only grabbing 3 cookies for a treat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286068 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:36:54 +0000 blackbird 286068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think back in the day, there were less packaged foods, too. You said your mom cooked healthy...once my mom started working, I don't know how often we had Stouffer's Lasagna or Beef Stroganoff for dinner. Not healthy at all! Lunch was almost always a sandwich, chips, carrot sticks, fruit snacks, and a Little Debbie cake. Oh plus a Capri Sun. Way too much sugar/junk, in my opinion. </p> <p>I don't want to limit snacks, but I will limit junk. I think if most children are presented with fruit snacks or an apple, the fruit snacks will almost always win. But I don't want to limit to the point that they become obsessed with it, either. We don't eat a lot of junk in general, so it will already be limited around the house. I think processed foods is more the culprit for obesity, as is less activity.</p> <p>To answer the question, no, we weren't very limited. But I played 3 sports and was very active. However, I grew up with a complex about being overweight and heavy (even though I wasn't) because I wasn't model-thin. So there was a gross double standard </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-286043 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:27:18 +0000 Meridian 286043@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't recall having too many sweets in the house growing up, but my mom had a sweet tooth too, so there was always the occasional chocolate treat here and there. </p> <p>The main problem is that I had a HUGE sweet tooth (still do), so I would sometimes take random dollars that I found lying around the house and go buy snacks and candy at the store on the way to school. Bad bad bad... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-285972 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:00:18 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 285972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't have too much in the house, and we always had a homemade lunch/dinner (we walked home from school at lunch and my Gran had lunch ready).</p> <p>I did eat like crap for a while though.. from about 11-12 I had icecream for breakfast every day!! My parents let me!! I would eat it before bed too!</p> <p>I started to get a bit "chunky" according to my mom, so she stopped letting me (I don't remember this) and then was small again! LOL </p> <p>I'm glad she stopped me though, I am tiny now but I have to watch what I eat to stay this way.. so if I kept up with my twice daily icecream I'm sure it would have been really hard to slim down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-285967 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:58:50 +0000 tororojo 285967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was around elementary school age, my mom limited us to 2 sweets a day (dessert of any kind) and we got to choose what and when. She is a big baker and the whole family has a sweet tooth, so there was always stuff around to eat. I liked having the freedom to choose! We were pretty active and played outside a lot, plus we've got good metabolisms and growing up we (my sister and I) were always tiny. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-285932 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:48:10 +0000 MamaMoose 285932@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom didn't keep a ton of sweets in the house. But there was always some kind of ice cream or cookies that we were allowed to have a small serving of if we finished our dinner. I agree that we were just way more active than kids these days are so it wasn't really a battle for our parents to keep us at a healthy weight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-285929 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:47:11 +0000 Mrs. Train 285929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were allowed sweets but my mom just didn't buy them much so they weren't in the house. Not that she's a grandma I don't think she can go to the store without buying the kids junk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-285928 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:46:44 +0000 prettylizy 285928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really. We sort of just ate whatever. Mom cooked good meals for us and we had treats when it was appropriate. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-parents-limit-sweetssnacks#post-285919 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:44:45 +0000 Mrs. Bee 285919@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents didn't really limit the amount the sweets and snacks we could eat. My mom did cook a healthy meal for us 3 times a day, and we rarely ate fast food. But we were also allowed to buy what snacks we wanted when we went to the market, and we would get spending money that we usually used to buy chocolate/candy/etc.</p> <p>I think most parents were that way back in the day, but there were less problems with obesity. Maybe because we were just more active?</p> <p>Did your parents limit sweets and snacks? </p>