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My friend Amanda brought up some good points on snacking in her comment on the last post that I feel like I should address.  I don't feed Quentin any snacks right now because when I fed him snacks after he woke up from his afternoon nap he didn't eat any dinner.  When he's hungry I still give him a snack, but he usually isn't because I'm still breast feeding him 4-5 times a day.

Going with the French feeding books I've been reading, French children have one snack a day at 4:30 when they get home from school.  It's also usually a treat.  They give their children sugar occasionally so they don't go crazy when they get the chance to eat it.  What's interesting is that if they make a cake during the weekend, the kids have to wait until snack time to eat any.  Or if they buy a chocolate at the store they have to wait until 4:30.  They never eat while they're out and about, only at planned meal times and snack time is one of those planned meal times for children.  Adults never snack.  

I'm thinking a snack after school is good.  In fact, I don't really have a problem with snacks, just when it interferes with meal time.  When the kids are so full of crackers that they don't eat their vegetables type of thing.  I hadn't really thought about snacks being a bad thing until I read these books, but it makes sense.  Since it has come to my attention, I have noticed parents giving their kids snacks pretty much continually throughout the day.  Of course the parents eat that way too so it's no surprise.  After working full-time sitting at a computer all day I got in the bad habit of eating continually throughout the day myself.  I eat when I'm bored and being here I don't have much to do while Quentin's a sleep so I've been eating a lot more frequently.  I'd like to try and eat bigger meals and snack less.  

I don't have any friends here in Oklahoma and my husband is either at training or studying all the time so I don't have people to bounce off my crazy ideas.  Thanks for letting me say crazy stuff and keeping me grounded to reality :)
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