Kids, Kool-aid, coke, milk, juice, and tea....

[Guest guest]

Hi, I recently had a bout with my sister-in-law over safe, healthy

drinks for children, namely my two sons vs her daughter.

 

To get a picture of how our lifestyles are different, I will take a

moment to give a brief summary of our children's daily diet.

 

My two boys are ages 15 months and 4 years: A random

day....breakfast: banana on toast with peanut butter; lunch: ham

sandwich on wholegrain, wholewheat bread with miracle whip or

honeymustard; snack: raisins and animal crackers; supper: purple hull

peas seasoned with pieces of country ham and cornbread. All beverages

include milk, occasionally use Ovaltine, black tea, coffee-for me,

water, and real fruit juices-cranberry, grape, apple, orange, etc.

All meals and snacks are followed by a thorough brushing of ALL teeth

with baking soda. No sweet toothpastes here. Also, no unneccesary

sipping of any beverage other than water between meals, to allow

teeth a break from sugars.

 

My neice, skylar is 2 1/2 and her average day diet for any particular

day includes-breakfast-1/4 cup dry Dora brand cereal-no milk (her

mother does not make her drink it, because she " dosn't like it " -

(unless her mommy adds about 4 tablespoons per sippy cup, Nesquick

Strawberry powder!), because it isn't sweet!, *washes her cereal down

with about 2-3 cups of Kool-aid, various flavors and neon colors,

throughout the day snacking on cupcakes her papaw brings and hard

candy and Halloween chocolates. Lunch time-has yet to brush teeth

even once! She eats A piece of boloney, and A piece of cheese,

followed by about 3 more cups of Koolaid; Snacking all throughout day

on sweets, Supper: Lil'Entrees Prepackaged toddler meals warmed up in

the microwave.... with more koolaid.. to bed with koolaid.

 

When our kids go with their grandparents, Skylar drinks the koolaid

provided there and the pepsi and diet coke her grandparents drink, I

send my children juice and tea and remind my inlaws to give them

water afterwards...

 

 

Now I just want to ask... which one of us will most likely have the

most problems down the road-both dental and behavior wise and what

resarch has there been done linking these things together that could

possibly help back me up?

 

Thanks, Mary in Guntown Mississippi

[Guest guest]

This may be an article you would want to forward

to your sister-in-law, not sure if the family

relations are going to be any better for it though...lol

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-11-02-kidsmedications_N.htm

 

 

At 05:25 AM 4/11/2008, you wrote:

 

>Hi, I recently had a bout with my sister-in-law over safe, healthy

>drinks for children, namely my two sons vs her daughter.

>

>To get a picture of how our lifestyles are different, I will take a

>moment to give a brief summary of our children's daily diet.

>

>My two boys are ages 15 months and 4 years: A random

>day....breakfast: banana on toast with peanut butter; lunch: ham

>sandwich on wholegrain, wholewheat bread with miracle whip or

>honeymustard; snack: raisins and animal crackers; supper: purple hull

>peas seasoned with pieces of country ham and cornbread. All beverages

>include milk, occasionally use Ovaltine, black tea, coffee-for me,

>water, and real fruit juices-cranberry, grape, apple, orange, etc.

>All meals and snacks are followed by a thorough brushing of ALL teeth

>with baking soda. No sweet toothpastes here. Also, no unneccesary

>sipping of any beverage other than water between meals, to allow

>teeth a break from sugars.

>

>My neice, skylar is 2 1/2 and her average day diet for any particular

>day includes-breakfast-1/4 cup dry Dora brand cereal-no milk (her

>mother does not make her drink it, because she " dosn't like it " -

>(unless her mommy adds about 4 tablespoons per sippy cup, Nesquick

>Strawberry powder!), because it isn't sweet!, *washes her cereal down

>with about 2-3 cups of Kool-aid, various flavors and neon colors,

>throughout the day snacking on cupcakes her papaw brings and hard

>candy and Halloween chocolates. Lunch time-has yet to brush teeth

>even once! She eats A piece of boloney, and A piece of cheese,

>followed by about 3 more cups of Koolaid; Snacking all throughout day

>on sweets, Supper: Lil'Entrees Prepackaged toddler meals warmed up in

>the microwave.... with more koolaid.. to bed with koolaid.

>

>When our kids go with their grandparents, Skylar drinks the koolaid

>provided there and the pepsi and diet coke her grandparents drink, I

>send my children juice and tea and remind my inlaws to give them

>water afterwards...

>

>

>Now I just want to ask... which one of us will most likely have the

>most problems down the road-both dental and behavior wise and what

>resarch has there been done linking these things together that could

>possibly help back me up?

>

>Thanks, Mary in Guntown Mississippi

>

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