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I had this dream where I taught my kids to stay thin and healthy. I always took them for a walk, I fed them food in smaller sizes, gave them milk, water and sometimes hot water so they cannot drink anything with sugar.
Dreams are often weird, and they generally mean nothing whatsoever. Most of the time, they're just the result of the brain free-associating when not under our conscious control.
Having said that...
Assuming you're feeding kids real, homemade food - as opposed to crappy high-sugar, high-fat fast food or prepared meals - limiting the portion sizes they receive is an awful idea.
Healthy, normal kids are instinctively in-tune with what their bodies need in terms of nutrition, and they almost always stop eating when their body tells them they've had enough (something a lot of us adults have lost the ability to notice). Doling out precise, calorie-counted measures to kids would be setting them up for serious issues with food later in their lives.
I think there's a lot of truth in the anti-dairy quip that, "Milk is the perfect food... if you're a calf."
Having said that, I guzzled the stuff by the gallon when I was a kid (the only beverage choices in my family's home were milk, fruit juice or water - never soft drinks), and I've always believed that's a good part of the reason I ended up being 6'4". My daughter has also always had as much milk as she wants, and she's well above average for her age too.
Normal. Sometimes dreams make sense and other times they don't. The other day I dreamt that I was eating Marshmallow Honey Nut Cheerios. They were delicious. I woke up feeling disappointed that the product doesn't actually exist. XD
Hot water... hot water, so they cannot drink anything with sugar? Ugh, sounds really controlling! It's not good to consume lots of sugar, but it's also not good to micromanage someone else's life to such an extreme degree either.
I woke up at 3:30 a.m. today, but I dreamt that I met with my best friend from college, and we talked about how we should have gotten married, and had children. Of course it doesn't make a lot of sense since my bestfriend in college was a gay man. We lost contact, and I love him very much of course, but I've never thought of him in that way.