My 10 year old daughter won't stop eating candy or sugar

Question

she drinks a ton of pop and eats ice cream and candy all the time. How do I limit her

Answer 1

Make sure it isn't in your home - YOU are the boss, the household manager, so it is up to you to make the rules and see that your children abide by them.

Perhaps you could ration what she has - maybe one candy after dinner or if her chores are done.

We don't have candy in our house, and I buy maybe one bottle of pop a month so it is a real treat here.

Answer 2

Stop buying it.  

Answer 3

have her earn a piece of candy each day/ a few times a week by doing chores or being good.  Give her soda only on special occasions such as birthdays, holidays and picnics.  Make a rule that she has to ask you every time she wants a snack and if she gets one without asking, she looses desert for that day, no junk food for a day, or somehting.  Have set snack times, morning snack or fruit or yogurt or somehting healthy, afternoon snack, where she can have something not so healthy, but not too bad, and then desert after dinner, not too sugary b/c you still want her to sleep.  Maybe 3-4 times a week she can have her junk food snack at afternoon snack/after school snack.  If she is intersted, you can do a sticker calendar and after she behaves enough times (whether you do days or half days or whatever you choose) or does enough chores, she gets to pick a piece of candy.  I also know a lot of parents allow 1 junk food snack with lunch, so like they pack a sandwich, fruit, crackers, and then like cookies or a cupcake or chocolate.  1 or 2 junk food items is enough for a day, and soda can easily be replaced by juice and water, maybe even treat her to kool-aid once a week or something.

Also, change where you keep it, and have a few different places to change you "hiding" place to or have it in a spot you can monitor or she cant reach.  You don't want her to be able to constantly help herself when u aren't in the room.  

Answer 4

Don't have it in the house, or buy a certain amount and tell her that is what she has to last her a week or a month or whatever. It is up to you to tell her no.

Answer 5

She won't stop eating it becausse " it " is always available.  Be the mom! You don't want her to eat it, don't provide it.

Answer 6

if you have it in the house there isn't much you can do unless you wanna watch her 24/7 that means when its bedtime too

Answer 7

Stop buying it  

Answer 8

You don't buy it, and you take it away from her.

You set ground rules.  Basically, you act like a parent.

Answer 9

She is ten, be a mother....

Answer 10

IT is a phase but you shouldn't keep it in he house and whenever she goes over to a friends house make sure that the friends mom knows it.

having to much sugar and candy is bad for you (duh everyone knows that)

tell her that every (week day month etc) that she does have to much sugar then she can have an occasional treat.

use it as a reward system

Answer 11

NO candy in the house.

NO soda in the house.

Ice cream is for Saturday nights as a treat.

End of story.  Grow up.

Answer 12

Your the mother, stop buying it!! Or if you buy it, hide and limit her eating! Your need to stand up and be the adult or she will  walk all over you  

Answer 13

dont keep junk in the house. my mom doesnt either.

Answer 14

Um, stop buying it or just simply tell her that she is 10 and that if she would like a snack then have a piece of fruit and some apple juice.

Answer 15

stop buying the dame c**p, ever thought of that one einstin.

Answer 16

Stop buying it altogether since clearly she will keep consuming it.  When she is in school don't give her any spending money so then she can't buy it.  Pack her a good healthy lunch so she won't go hungry.  She likely will still get candy at school since you cannot be there with her to monitor her but not having that stuff in the house will at least help decrease the sugar intake.

Answer 17

dont buy it and if you have to buy it put a can on the counter and charge her a set price for each individual cany or sugar product. you could try charging ALOT that way she wont be able to pay for it! haha

Answer 18

Be the parent. DON'T buy it!! You're the mother,

NOT HER.

Answer 19

dont have the c**p in the house.

Answer 20

If your child was chewing on lead paint chips, what would you do?  

Hey, do the same thing with sugar.

Be a parent.

Answer 21

i can not get enough chocolate  

Answer 22

Don't buy that junk.  Don't keep it in the house.

Answer 23

You limit her by not buying it.  

Answer 24

spank her when she sneaks it