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Sugar Hypes Kids Up. If It Did The Same For Us Moms, Starbucks Would Go Out Of Business!
Sugar Hypes Kids Up. If It Did The Same For Us Moms, Starbucks Would Go Out Of Business!
4-20-2011
(Written yesterday.)
Ever notice how your kids, well most kids. All the ones I have ever had or known, get totally hopped up, almost ‘drunk’ appearing after some candy or sugary sweets grace their palettes?
For me, it’s like dealing with a completely different human being. ‘Go and sleep it off will ya?’ WHY do such things give this bursting energy to the young but not to us… not the old, but the older?
How much easier would it be to pop a couple of tic-tacs throughout the day instead of constantly brewing up a pot of coffee? Talk around the water cooler at work would be, ‘Hey, I’m fizzling out man. Got any skittles on you Sheila?’ I mean I have tried this out myself it just DOES NOT WORK.
There is nothing about chompin’ on a Snicker’s bar that makes me go wide-eyed except for the taste. That sweet second on the lips, and then the realization of the fact that, ‘oh yes…a lifetime on the hips.’
Think of what it would do to places like Starbucks if we only had to pay $.50 to easily carry around a ‘hype me up’ package of jujubes in our back pocket to get us through the day. The entire world as we know it would change. The question is WHY? What is it about children that allows them to get this sugar high, and also tell me..how unfair is this?
Typical mom by the end of the day, sugar or not. Heck, sometimes by mid-day.
I went to the movies today, we saw RIO by the way. If you have little ones go and check it out, it was adorable and funny. But my daughter had some skittles and almost tore the theatre apart. I want to do that. Well not necessarily tear theatres apart, but I want to go skipping out of the movie theatre like a 10 year old, and not end up getting home yawning myself through the rest of the day.
I don’t drink much soda but when I do it doesn’t have a coffee effect on me either, and certainly doesn’t do what it does to a child. If anybody needs to be juiced up it’s us moms. I don’t know. I wish a couple of Twizzlers had me hanging from the monkey bars. That’s for damn sure. Ok..I need a nap. (Yeah right, but I do need one.)
OK, quick note: Just for the record, my children do NOT get many sweets. It’s an occasional treat like for me, except it totally makes ‘em NUTSO! It did when I was a kid to, so something has got to give here. Maybe after 35 years I’m immune to its effects. Oh well. Back to the Java. 
I guess this will remain a mother’s greatest crutch.
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Sugar has been scientifically disproven to cause hyperactivity in children. It is more likely you are observing this behavior because societally speaking, it is what you expect to come from your children consuming sugary foods. You should check out scientific facts on the subject; there have been many controlled, double-blind experiments that seemingly disprove your hypothesis. If your child’s behavior really does change so drastically after sugar consumption, there may be a medical issue that should get checked out, but it isn’t likely.
I read that, however, I don’t believe it. Not after having 5 children. My kids have always been to the doctors, no medical issues excaept for my one son, but he wasn’t really given much of this stuff as he was sick his whole life, but the others ALL react this way. Like they are intoxicated almost, and they are healthy. My 7 yo FORGET ABOUT IT! I had to same reaction as a child…LOCO. Once in a while a slurpee can still make me giddy, but it’s a rare event. I have asked other moms and some of their kids react the same to it, and others don’t. There must be more to it than what ‘science’ thus far has proven. It only takes but minutes after consumption, and all of my kids have been checked out sice birth by doctors.