The completely amazing Margot and I were chatting over email today about kids and sugar and if there is a big impact on kids’ behavior when they have sugar. We agreed that there is, but we aren’t sure how much as everyone’s kids consume varying degrees of sugar.
Ask yourself this: how much sugar do we knowingly or unknowingly give our kids?
How much sugar hides in that chocolate, dried fruit, Milo, cookies, juice, cooldrink and cereal we give them? How hard would it be to not give them sugar, even if it was only for 48 hours?
We have therefore decided to not give our kids any sugar for 48 hours and see if it would make any difference to how they behave.
I then spoke to Tanya about it and she was keen to challenge parents as well. (note how we don’t exclude the Dads..)
So here’s the challenge:
Starting on Wednesday morning up to and including Thursday evening not a crumb of sugar shall cross the lips of a (willing or unwilling or unaware) participant and we shall convene on the interwebs on Friday to see the results via a poll right here.
What we really want to know is how it made you feel to not have any sugar at the end of the 48 hours and if you could see or feel a difference in yourself and your kids when you woke up on Friday morning.
It’s only 2 days. Who is in?
PS: The #tag on twitter is #sugarfree48
PPS: If you are curious about food labels go and have a look at the nifty guide Discovery put together on reading food labels, it is very cool