Most Important Meal Of The Day????

[B Lou]

Remember when breakfast was the most important meal of the day? We want to send our child off with a good start? Then why is it so many parents bring their child to daycare with a handful of crap. For the last two days I've had a parent bring me her daughter with a bag od homemade cookies. Some to share with my family but 2 for her own daughter to eat after breakfest while she's waiting for the school bus. I mean really. Cookies for breakfest. Why don't we just wash it down with some mountian dew.
Then the next parent comes in with her daughter, who is only 2 1/2 eating an orange slice. You know the gummy kind. And follows with stating "Oh she found it on the floor of the van". Really?
What are wrong with parents these days?

[hoopinglady]

pop tarts

One of my families feeds pop tarts for breakfast every morning and is constantly concerned that her 3.5 year old boy is ADD because he "doesn't focus well"

[B Lou]

I know of a daycare provider who will accually feed her daycare kids poptarts for breakfest. Wonder if her parents or the food program knows she does this. Again REALLY!

[countrymom]

and you wonder why kids are so obesse early, have problems focusing...my own children eat every day breakfast, I believe that breakfast is the most important meal, and I love the ones that say "they just are not hungry in the morning" bull poop, I don't understand how they expect children to concentrate when their stomachs are rumbling.

[nannyde]

I know of a daycare provider who will accually feed her daycare kids poptarts for breakfest. Wonder if her parents or the food program knows she does this. Again REALLY!

I think poptarts ARE credible on the food program. I know they used to be.

[B Lou]

I make sure that I have a good breakfest for all the daycare kids as well as my own 17 year old. The parent that brought herr daughter in this morning with the cookies also informed me that after she eats here she goes to school and eats again. This is a child that is so very close to obessity that it makes me wonder. When did the kids take over and set the rules at their houses?

[GretasLittleFriends]

My DD1 (16) and DS and sometimes my DD2 (1) if she's awake before the big kids go to school, all sit down together and eat together. I'm usually in the kitchen with them, making lunches or tidying up, or whatever.

On my Minute Menu, breakfast options include a grain category titled Pastry/Muffins and offer the following choices to choose from: Cinnamon Rolls, Coffee Cake, Donuts, Sweet Rolls, Toaster Pastries Unfrosted. Muffins are also listed, but are in the Breads category.

I have a friend who feeds her little boy sugary cereal each morning. I suggest she try feeding him different cereal for two weeks. (WIC approved, low/no sugar). She says "Oh, he won't eat that stuff." Kix or Miniwheats or Multi-grain cheerios would make a HUGE difference, I believe.

She wants him tested for ADHD, as he doesn't pay attention, won't follow directions or obey rules for her. Personally I think his biggest issue is he lacks discipline and consequence. Prime example, she was telling me how Bobby was misbehaving. He started misbehaving while we were talking, and she says if you keep that up, I am not taking you to the state fair, as you can't behave. Guess what, not only did he go to the state fair, he was misbehaving there too. Off subject... Rant ended.

[B Lou]

I believe that alot of these kids that have ADHD or ADD could benifit from just eating better. Lets try changing our diet before we decide to drug our children.
Now before everyone starts jumping on me for that statement, I do believe that some child do need to be on medication. But before I would put my child on medication I was willing to try other methods first.
Lets try laying off the soda and sugars. Try feeding them fruits and more veggies.

[Maddy'sMommy]

I love pop tarts!

, that being said, I don't serve them to the kids, and I only eat them myself like once a month.

My boyfriend likes them, so eats them more often. I figure I can't control what he eats for breakfast.

[Jenniferdawn]

Geez, don't get me started on this. I have one family who consistently brought their breakfast with them in the mornings which included donuts, sugar cereal, Hawaiian punch (yes, for BREAKFAST!) candy, cookies, you name it. Poor kids were sick all the time. Not to mention hungry with in an hour of getting here. They were the family who made me change my policy to no food from home and who got me to start serving breakfast to the kids.

[hoopinglady]

also, I serve breakfast, so when a parent is rude enough to let their child walk in with a nasty, sticky pop tart, the other kids go a bit crazy.

[tbutler]

Some parents eat alot of crap so they feed their kids alot of crap too.

Unfortunately, in this busy, busy world we live in, honey buns, pop tarts, frosted flakes are easy and quick for working parents to be out the door in the morning and McD's for dinner so they can quickly put them to bed at night.

I look forward to cooking a good breakfast for my 5 year old before school as well as my daycare kids. Everyone isn't as fortunate to have this luxury. I know I sure wasn't last year waking up at 5:30am to dress me, a 4 year old, and 3year old to be out of the house by 6:20am. Oatmeal was my go to breakfast then. No where near as good as what they are getting now, fresh wheat pancakes with bananas, eggs with turkey bacon, etc.

[sharlan]

I've always felt that breakfast was the most important meal of the day. I always prefered to give the kids some kind of protein, fruit, and milk to start the day.

I do buy PopTarts twice a year. The kids get them for a midmorning snack after they've had a good breakfast, along with a glass of milk. Everyone gets their PopTart fix for the next 6 mos.

[Nellie]

My mom was a huge you HAVE to eat breakfast kind of person. If you over slept she made toast to eat at the bus stop. But I have had a problem with my daughter since she started on solids. Never could get more than a few bites in her. When she was 3 she had to go to daycare. Sit her at the table every morning and she would just stare at her food. I even started buying sugar cereals to try to get her to eat something, but she always refused. Started waking her up 2 1/2 hours before we had to leave to give her time to wake up and hoping she would want to eat right before we had to leave, NOTHING. Once she was in school I could get her to eat 1/2 serving of cereal in the morning, but that was it and it was a FIGHT to force her to eat that much. Now she is 13. In the summers she doesn't eat a bite until 10:0. Tried making her eat a little of something before she goes to school, but when she gets home she talks about how her tummy hurts all morning when she eats. The school now has a breakfast program. At her age they can go buy something(or bring) until 10 and eat it at there desk. I've let the eating right away in the morning go if she will eat a piece of fruit and yougurt at school.
My mom says that she was like Erin. Never hungry in the morning,. but her parents made her eat breakfast. She threw up every morning on the bus. She finally begged her mom to quit making her eat. She brought a PB and Jelly sandwitch to school with her and would eat that right before class started.

[hoopinglady]

there are plenty of quick healthy options. Fruit, toast, crackers, cheese, yogurt, leftovers...anything!

I make oatmeal bars. They take 45 minutes to bake but then you can keep them and grab them on the go.

It doesn't have to be home cooked or elaborate to not be processed and full of sugar to start their day.