“I feed my kids dinner at 3pm every day – here is why”

A mum says she feeds her kids dinner at 3pm so they are less "over stimulated" and to "eliminate the chaos". Aimee Connor, 38, found her four children were always hungry by 3pm when her eldest daughter, Mahli, seven, got home from school. The family were already having an early dinner around 4.30pm so parents Aimee and Shay, 42, a building designer, could put the kids to sleep by 6pm or 7pm. But Aimee found her kids – Indi, five, Bili, three, Bodhi, one – were getting irritable and she would give them unhealthy snacks while she was cooking. Aimee found they then weren’t eating their tea and decided to move dinner forward so her kids eat a full meal – such as pizza or spaghetti bolognaise at 3pm – and healthy snacks just before bed.