I’ve created a monster!

An after school treat want­ing mon­ster. And don’t even think about giv­ing her an apple or banana. That ain’t no stinkin’ treat! I don’t know how it hap­pened. Over the past 2+ years she’s just grown to expect that I’ll have a treat for her. A choco­late bar, a packet of haribo’s or if she’s really lucky a choco­late frosted donut. It stresses me out! I don’t have this type of stuff in the house so I usu­ally have to make a mad dash to the shops to pick up some­thing. If I for­get or run out of time she’s in floods of tears. So because I hate see­ing her in tears after I haven’t seen her for 6.5 hours I give in. Are you shocked? I’m pretty strict when it comes to most things with her but some­how I’ve com­pletely falled down on the after school treat hurdle.

What do you guys do when it comes to treats? Do you even give them treats?  I think I am going to have to start work­ing on wean­ing her off these treats. Maybe change it to an end of week treat at the local cof­fee shop? They make an awe­some hot choco­late for kids.  Or maybe her new favourite treat, hot vimto.  Of course we’re going to have to deal with tears and tantrums until this new regime becomes a habit.

I’ve also started her friends on after school treats. I take her and her bestie to choir on Mon­days and as soon as they see me they’re both ask­ing what the after school treat is! Aaaargh! So maybe it’ll be a Mon­day and Fri­day treat. All other days I’ll give her an apple. I think she needs a healthy treat as she’s got so many activ­i­ties going on she needs some­thing a bit health­ier than a haribo!