Anushka lets daughter binge at ice-cream museum, shares parenting lesson

For many parents, taking a child to an ice-cream museum and then saying, “Eat as much as you want,” may sound like the opposite of teaching healthy eating. But when Anushka Sharma tried it with her daughter Vamika, she noticed something that made her rethink the way children learn to regulate what they eat.Anushka, who has spoken openly about trying to build healthy food habits in her children from an early age, recalled the incident at an event in 2024. Her daughter, she said, loves ice cream and is “obsessed” with it. So when the opportunity came to indulge, Anushka decided not to impose a restriction.“I took her to an ice cream museum because she loves ice cream. She is obsessed. There, I told her, ‘Eat as much as you want.’ What happened next was what stayed with her.She didn’t eat that much,” Anushka said.