This is regarding my own children, not the daycare kids. My kids wake up at 7:30 and have a healthy breakfast. This morning was oatmeal, fruit and milk. Keep in mind that for the most part, we do healthy meals. Very little convenience food, in fact I offered them those Gerber graduate meals one time and they both refused to eat it. Okay so they were previously all having a snack at 9:30 (daycare kids included) but the daycare kids NEVER ate snack and my two did fine until lunch so I got tired of throwing away food and stopped offering it period. It has been a few months and that seems to work for us. Occasionally I can tell that they need a little something extra and so we do offer snack on an as needed basis.
Here's the issue.....
My two eat afternoon snack but more often than not, pick at their dinners, rarely ever finish (and i offer only a small portion). Would it be a bad idea to go to 3 meals a day only? no snacks? they are 2.5 and almost 4 years old and healthy in every way. I would prefer them to eat dinner because that is our meal together as a family. I have tried to cut down snack to something very, very small and at this point, I am thinking that is more trouble and really not that far away from cutting out snacks completely.
so heres what our schedule would be
breakfast at 7:30
lunch at 11:00
nap is 12 to 3
dinner is at 5
Here's the issue.....
My two eat afternoon snack but more often than not, pick at their dinners, rarely ever finish (and i offer only a small portion). Would it be a bad idea to go to 3 meals a day only? no snacks? they are 2.5 and almost 4 years old and healthy in every way. I would prefer them to eat dinner because that is our meal together as a family. I have tried to cut down snack to something very, very small and at this point, I am thinking that is more trouble and really not that far away from cutting out snacks completely.
so heres what our schedule would be
breakfast at 7:30
lunch at 11:00
nap is 12 to 3
dinner is at 5
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