Giving my kids dessert with breakfast and dinner has been a game-changer — other moms don’t understand
NY Post
Cookies, brownies and cakes don’t have to wait at mom Caitlin Kiarie’s house.
Sweets get a front-row seat alongside the veggies, starches and meats she serves her brood of three each night.
“Giving my kids dessert with their dinner normalizes dessert,” Kiarie, 40, a registered dietician from Montclair, New Jersey, told The Post. “Sweets are not something kids should believe they have to ‘earn’ as a ‘special treat’ for finishing their meals.”
And while the concept of serving tots goodies alongside their grub might sound nuts to some, it’s cracking among anti-“almond moms” online.
As Kiarie asserts: “Desserts are just food.”
Shunning the toxic diet-culture norms of the 1980s, ’90s and early aughts — which included enforcing extreme food restrictions on children — modish moms of Gen Alphas and Gen Zs are now creatively incorporating confections into their kids’ everyday lives.
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