why is everyone getting obsessed about children eating sweets?

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It reminds me of a Roxanne show, when Dan is worried about a teenage daughter going to a concert and Roxanne says 'you are right, only middle aged men should go to pop concerts.' Surely children should eat sweets, more than adults?

Everyone has gone mad, that's why.

A Sherbert dip is not kiddie cocaine.

Never did me any harm etc.

PS I loved Roseanne.

me too, though maybe the obese parents in rosanne are a good reason to obsess about children's diet.

sugar is poison

mine have sweets now and then but I'm always conscious that not everyone is ok with that - so if they have friends round and there might be sweets around I check it's ok with the parents. I was so delighted on one occasion when the mum said "of course it's alright. blimey if you can't have sweets when you're 6 there's something seriously wrong". her dd ate all her tea, including veg then they all had sherbet dib dabs. and I keep her mum's words in my head a lot. they make perfect sense.

it's poison, but i do give the DDs a bit of poison now and then, keeps them sweet

Kids love sweet things naturally, and the best thing to do os give them fruit if they always want sweets. However, sweets in small amounts every few days won't do them any harm whatsoever. It's when they have cocopops at breakfast, cola at break, and chocolate and icecream later on that it becomes problematic, and displaced the nutrient rich foods.

I bake homemade cakes ect with unrefined sugar, so at least it's not as refined, and the odd soy icecream too. Growing kids need the energy anyway of they play all day and do sports, and can't fit in all the bulk of an adult healthy diet, so a few empty calories are fine!

And the whole sugar/hyper thing is ridiculous. Studies show no behavioural difference in healthy kids who eat a sugary buffet at a party, to those who eat a healthy one.

Yup! My 2 had sweets from time to time - both fit healthy lads now.

In fact ds2 is the skinny one and he had sweets much younger than ds1 did.

what studies? you don't mean that bollocky tv show last year where they got kids hyper with entertainers but fed them veg sticks?

That's exactly what I was thinking!
My 2 don't get hyper on sugar, but you should see them on caffeine...

DS1 won't eat sweets, except chocolate. And only choc by itself. Maltesers are "too crunchy for this boy"

Yeh I saw that - and also have read various bits and pieces.
I'm not talking about kids who are reactive hypoglyceimics and suffer some time after eating it, therefore behaving oddly.
But I have never seen a kids who ate sugar get hyper from it, and think how much sugar the average child eats in a day they'd have taken over the world by now if that was the case!

you should see dd on coke. bouncing off walls. i said as much to my friend Tony Montana just the other day.

DS2 was off his tits on raisins the other night - not a pretty sight...

And then they become teens, with maybe a little pocket money, sometimes their dinner money and live in sweet shop/chip shop/burger place and eat a diet that now has an extra food group labelled 'crap'

Okay - well I can;t argue with your own experiences. You know your kids better than I do! I just think it's overated, tbh. And just because there is a higher amount of sugar in the blood, doesn't mean it will be used by the brain (or any other system) any faster, as it is just carbohydrate. If kids get high on sweety artificial gummy things it's likely due to the colourings and flavorings that they get symptoms.

I was kidding, btw.

so was i, i don't give my dd cocaine. as i said to my friend tony 'scarface' montana the other day.