Thinking about watching ds's diet (little hyper at times) but don't know where to start.....help please? Long, sorry.

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Ds 6 is an energetic, full on, seat of the pants boy who rarely walks anywhere, just runs. All the time. He is full on until bed time.
We can go to town for the day and while holding my hand he is constantly jumping, ie from one paving slab to the next, over bollards, will attempt to jump on windowsill as we pass shops etc. it's constant. In a good way, hes not being naughty (although I have to remind him all the time that windowsill are not to step on, garden walls belong to someone's garden etc etc) but he just never walks along holding my hand.
If he goes to get something it's full on speed- he whacked his hand on the kitchen counter yesterday so hard while going to open the drawer that he cut his knuckle.
Some days he's very much a typical energetic boy and other days he is exhausting.
Today and yesterday were moments of both, with calm- we have played with Lego for 2 hours both days and when he uses his concentration he's great. Similarly when doing homework, he will sit still. He really is a lovely boy, I hope I'm painting the right picture here. We're on half term and so perhaps he's a little bored so I understand that too.
I just wonder if there might be something he's eating that he shouldn't- where do I go to find out?
Breakfast might be- bagel or toast with butter, weetabix or coco pops.
Lunch at school is a decent well balanced meal- I like the school menu. At home just now- crackers with cheese and pate, home made soup, soft boiled eggs and toast.
Dinner- spag bol, mince, pasta, fajitas, roast chicken, chicken pie. All home made.
He does love biscuits (Oreos, custard creams etc) but is limited to 2 per day. Sweets we might have twice a week? Hard to say. If he bought say fruits pastilles etc ì snap the pack in half, so only half a pack at a time. I wont buy the kids those spray sweets or licky pop novelty things i just think they might have far too many chemicals in? However yesterday we had gone out and he chose a pack of Extra sugar free chewing gum bubblemint flavour and I'm just wondering how bad that is? I've googled a list of E numbers to avoid and it doesn't contain any but I think the list of other chemicals don't look great!

I don't want to be OTT but also want to be aware of what I really shouldn't be feeding my 6 year old.

Any help greatly appreciated. TIA.

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Bar the cocopops it doesn't look too bad- does he just drink plain water and milk?

Some people swear that changing their child's diet makes a huge difference to their behaviour I don't personally. Supernanny did an experiment on one of her shows where she split a group of kids at a party into two and gave one group healthy snacks and the other all the sweets etc they could want. The same number of parents in both groups thought their children had eaten the unhealthy snacks because they were being "hyper". I often think we have to adjust our expectations rather than our children. If your son is a happy well mannered joyful little soul then I wouldn't worry too much trying to change things. It sound like he has a well balanced diet to me.

Does he get plenty of exercise? My boys were both like this and still are to a degree at 16 and 12 🤣. They both did clubs most days after school - usually sport based and still need those outlets - football, rugby, Scouts etc. When younger we swam after school or went to the park with bikes/ scooters after school and in winter usually soft play or play dates. Boys seem to have tons of pent up energy after school as they are made to sit and learn at a desk. The clubs/ sports helped keep me sane and made the time we were at home much calmer xx

For the food, I try to avoid giving them anything that contains an ingredient that I don’t recognise. On the whole though, I think your DS’s looks fairly ok. Is he getting plenty of oily fish?

I tend to agree with Lara though. My DS needed regular exercise at 6. If he’d had a two hour session being fairly still and playing Lego he’d need something like a long play in the park, bike ride, walk, something to burn off all that energy.

If you have a look at your local climbing centre and leisure centre, they’ll both probanly have sessions on this week that will hopefully
Lay tire him out a little.

Walk a longer route to school for using extra energy? Straight to park from school? X