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According to my daughter, previous snack box goodies had included cookies Cheap Clayton Keller Jersey , chips, candy bars and chocolate bars. At first I was skeptical of this report, but a call to the teacher confirmed her report.

To say the least, I was amazed. I understand that not all parents are aware of the growing obestity problem among today's youth because it doesn't effect them, but even I wouldn't allow my kid to eat these kind of "snacks" on a daily basis. It simply doesn't matter if you have an overweight child or not - all of these products made from refined sugars are not good for kids. Sure Cheap Arizona Coyotes Hats , they're alright every once in a while, but not on a daily basis.

So what can you do? How can you convice the other parents of the class that they should be sending in healthier snacks? Better yet, how do you send healthier snacks? You can't make things at home anymore because of the potential for food born illnesses, so any snacks that get sent in for other children than your own need to be store bought. And, they need to be the kind of thing that kids will h might be the hardest part of it all.

So Cheap Arizona Coyotes Hoodies , what I did was simple and seems to be something that other parents like. I got in touch with some other mothers in the class and brainstormed some ideas with them after sharing my concerns. One of my other children attended a weight loss camp a couple years ago, so I had a good number of ideas when we sat down to develop a plan. The hardest part was figuring out how to "scale" the snacks for an entire classroom, but with a group of adults, we were more than able to figure it out. Once we had some ideas ironed out, we printed out a take home sheet that we gave to the teacher who then distributed it to the rest of the parents. Of course the teacher was on our side - she had been battling sugar snacks for years! Would you want to have 20 or so kids hopped up on sugar under your responsibility?

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