Something To Consider Regarding Bad Behavior

[WImom]

Yep!! I only feed my own kids, myself and DH food without chemicals/dyes, etc. Mostly organic. When ever my "spirited" DD goes to friends house or a birthday party, something like that that she eats "junk" at she is much more hyper and can become moody and cranky!!

Also, I have a DCB that is my "trouble maker" and some days he is this way ALL DAY! Starts about 2 minutes after mom leaves. I can tell it's like he can't help it. He copies kids and me, bugs them, is hyper, talks back, just generally annoying. It makes me wonder what he ate for dinner and breakfast! I think today it was a pancake sausage on a stick with syrup on the way here.

[Chellieleanne]

I try to limit the junk food I feed my kids but it does make it's way in there. My oldest(3yo) will go and take an apple off the counter though if he is hungry instead of the various junk that we have(gummy snacks, gold fish crackers, gogurt...). I do believe food can cause a lot of problems we see in kids though, I have suggested to the mom of my dcb to watch his diet since he seems to have a lot of behavior and control issues. I know they eat out almost every night and she gives him a lot of the sugar junk cereal too:/ I have been slowly phasing out junk, we still buy it but not as often and I participate in bountiful baskets(it is amazing and totally worth it. Look it up or pm me ) so I get a lot more produce that I used to. My own kids don't seem to have any behavior issues, at least nothing that is out of the ordinary for their ages, but I also cook at home 95%of our meals and limit anything that is pre processed unless I have no other way to make a dish.

[hope]

Not only the junk food that parents feed their kids but also the water supply. Our water supply has low levels of medications from our overly medicated society. Estrogen in the water is thought to be linked to the early development in girls. I can only imagine what effects it has on children's behavior.