Isn’t that sweet?
Parents who let their children indulge in pre-packaged foods, baked goods and candy have earned a new title: “Good Bear Moms.”
A “gummy bear mom,” explains TikTokker Justyna, “is basically the opposite of a tonsil mom,” or a diet-obsessed parent who eats very little and can put the same pressure on their kids. However, the antithesis of this is a fruitful cuisine with no restrictions around food.
“Momma Toothy Bear is the one who makes the Costco run — pantry stocked, fridge stocked,” the self-proclaimed “mommy toothy bear” said in a viral video. “If there’s a new trending shake, she wants to try it.”
In other words, it is the parent who is “always prepared” for visitors or their children, with a stocked kitchen filled with all kinds of food or pastries.
The name is welcomed by other parents who, unbeknownst to them, are also “mother bears”.
“Oh wow, I’m a rubber mom,” wrote one beaming woman. “I mean I try to keep my meals healthy, but obviously I’m hungry? Would you like a snack? Do you want to try it? Of course!’ mom”.
“I realize I think I’m a mama bear, but groceries are getting expensive so I try to limit the constant eating,” explained another. “However, then I feel like a mother with tonsils and I feel bad. Vicious cycle.”
“Mommy toothy bear here,” another mom wrote. “Always cookies and cakes when people come over. Always a billion foods around our house.”
The naming convention follows a parental trend of normalizing sweets for their children.
Instead of demonizing sweets, mothers are presenting cakes, candies or ice cream as an integral part of the human diet and not something to be earned.
“Giving my kids dessert with their dinner normalizes dessert,” Caitlin Kiarie, 40, a registered dietitian in Montclair, New Jersey, previously told The Post. “Dessert is not something children should believe they have to ‘earn’ as a ‘special treat’ to complete their meals.”
She added: “Desserts are just food.”
And doctors agree, saying it can be developmentally damaging for kids to be restrictive with food — though it should be in moderation and in conjunction with the building blocks of a nutritious diet.
“Serving dessert with breakfast has been a game-changer for my kids,” Bekah Groop, a mother of three from Maryland, previously told The Post.
The 31-year-old content creator gives her kids candy with meals several times a week so they “don’t have sugar on some pedestal in their minds.”
Sometimes, the dessert is half-eaten or skipped entirely because “they’re enjoying everything else.”
“They’re not sneakily eating or desperately waiting for Halloween or their birthdays to outdo candy,” she explained.
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