Early dinner for kids: Mum’s alternative after school snack hack ensure kids don’t have tantrums

A mum has discovered the secret to getting kids to eat their dinner, and it turns out we just need to jump the gun a little bit.

Paige Boyuk, a mother-of-two from Canada, keeps a strict schedule of dinner at 4:30 pm.

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She posted about the revolutionary hack in a TikTok video, which showed her and her two children eating spaghetti and meatballs in broad daylight.

“Does anyone else eat dinner at 4:25 p.m. because your kids asked for a snack and if they had a snack, they wouldn’t eat dinner so you just serve them dinner?” Boyuk wrote in her video, which has since garnered more than three million views.

Many others swore by the hack to get through the day with their little ones.

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“I absolutely believe in eating an early dinner! Me and my kids life changed for the better when we started eating dinner before 6pm. I usually serve between (four and five). Country time! It’s a game changer!!!” said one mum.

“Yes, protein packed early dinner and snack before bed,” another agreed.

“I started doing this for the very same reason when my boys (now 27, 29) were school-age. I also benefited by having energy left to clean up after!” one mum noted.

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“I started early dinner too and never going back to eating at 5:30,” said one.

Some users noted that this is a normal practice in many places in the world.

“In Sweden it’s common to eat dinner and then you have ‘kvällsfika’, which is like breakfast, but before bed. is that not the norm in other countries?” one questioned.

“In Poland its normal dinner time,” another European user said.

Parents will do anything to get their kids to eat, with some taking the silliest measures to get the food in their baby’s bellies.

One told 9honey they have to “sit in the bath, blow bubbles, and feed him like the King he is” to try and get their child to eat.

Another added that they “feed her on the slide that lives in our lounge room.”

“My daughter has to hold a specific spoon,” one added, while another one-upped them, sharing that their child has to “hold two spoons, a packet of wipes, and a water bottle all at once,” to eat a meal in peace.

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