This. This makes me crazy.
I am so tired of reading about the childhood obesity epidemic that it makes my eyes cross. We're making our schools feed our children healthier lunches - but what do they come home to eat? What did they eat before they got to school? If commercials and other people's shopping carts are anything to judge by, we send our children off to school filled with the refined sugar that comes from most cereals and convenince "breakfast" foods such as Pop-Tarts and Toaster Strudels. Don't have time to fix your children breakfast? Fill 'em up with sugar! And when they get home, be a good mother and give them sugar filled fruit juices and fat-laden pizza rolls - be a 'cool' mama, mama!
Meanwhile, our playgrounds sit empty because of the incorrectly perceived threat of pedophiles and kidnappers lurking on every street corner when the reality is that your dear uncle is more likely to molest your child and your ex-spouse is more likely to kidnap them. We don't allow our children to walk to and from school any longer either. Don't believe me - go here and check out some of her posts. Free Range Kids is a great blog, but it makes my stomach churn just to know that we have to reassure parents that their children should be allowed to be children.
I'm happy that I was raised as a feral child out in the Texas plains. My mother rarely knew were we were - and we were turned loose with horses, guns, knives, lunch and no cell phone. I miss those days.
I am so tired of reading about the childhood obesity epidemic that it makes my eyes cross. We're making our schools feed our children healthier lunches - but what do they come home to eat? What did they eat before they got to school? If commercials and other people's shopping carts are anything to judge by, we send our children off to school filled with the refined sugar that comes from most cereals and convenince "breakfast" foods such as Pop-Tarts and Toaster Strudels. Don't have time to fix your children breakfast? Fill 'em up with sugar! And when they get home, be a good mother and give them sugar filled fruit juices and fat-laden pizza rolls - be a 'cool' mama, mama!
Meanwhile, our playgrounds sit empty because of the incorrectly perceived threat of pedophiles and kidnappers lurking on every street corner when the reality is that your dear uncle is more likely to molest your child and your ex-spouse is more likely to kidnap them. We don't allow our children to walk to and from school any longer either. Don't believe me - go here and check out some of her posts. Free Range Kids is a great blog, but it makes my stomach churn just to know that we have to reassure parents that their children should be allowed to be children.
I'm happy that I was raised as a feral child out in the Texas plains. My mother rarely knew were we were - and we were turned loose with horses, guns, knives, lunch and no cell phone. I miss those days.
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