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Last year a teenage grandson living with us. He had some ADHD behavior, little incentive for the school, and lousy grade. We loved having him with us but what a challenge. Just get him to eat breakfast at all, let alone a healthy one, began to struggle. But there was one step towards doing better in school and help tame ADHD behavior
We are at the grocery store together
Caleb: .. “Grandma, let’s get Neon Dingeroos-red Dye-40-artificial-tasting-most-sugar cereals
Me: “Are you kidding?”
Caleb: “But you said you wanted me to eat a good breakfast.”
Me: “Right.”
Caleb: “And how come I can not get Neon Dingeroos-red-dye-40-artificial-tasting-most-sugar cereals
Me “. The Neon Dingeroos-red-dye-40-artificial-tasting-most-sugar cereals It is not even food.”
Caleb: “Well, I’m not eating some gross old people’s health cereal that tastes like dog food”
Me: “… Yuk It sounds truly disgusting”
Despite a conversation, by the time the year with his grandfather was a Caleb was happily eating low sugar, high protein and fiber, whole grain cereal for breakfast. And not quite so happy peanut butter sandwiches on whole wheat. After all, if there is no white bread in the house and you love peanut butter sandwiches, you have no choice but whole wheat bread. And you get used to it.
In the end, he chose corn, not me. So how was I to get him to do this?
I got Caleb interested in the nutritional value of foods by convincing him-along with the help of football coach-eating well would help him play better his football. And then by sending him on a mission in the grocery store to read the label. There was a competition between us. Contests are great to encourage teenage boys.
Here’s what happened. I had declared that sugar-coated cereal will never appear on our shelves. Period! So to push my limits, Caleb asks for corn is frosted. I repeat not sugar-coated cereal in our house.
He, in typical teenager fashion, goes back to the corn he chose so he can prove to me that it meets my requirements. And he was right! He had found the grain, despite frosting, which is low in sugar for packaged grain and relatively high in protein and fiber. He won the race, and I won the goal to get him to eat a healthy breakfast.
Do whatever you can to get children interested in eating well. Teach them to read labels. Make a game of it. Counting grams of sugar, grams of saturated fat compared to grams of protein, grams of fiber. Connect eat well something they are passionate about the sport as they are playing. If they are not concerned themselves to get better grades, do better in school will not be much incentive.
Have red dye 40 competition. How many food they can find in your kitchen that have red dye 40? How many foods on grocery store shelves? How many types of confectionery (excluding chocolate) Can they find that does not have red dye 40? For some kids, just drop the food or candy that has a red dye 40 it will stop ADHD behavior in its tracks.
what they eat affects how well they learn. So a kid who lives on junk food loaded with sugar and fat will struggle more to learning and have more behavioral issues including ADHD symptoms.
Maybe your children do not have ADHD after all and maybe just a change in diet will help with ADHD symptoms. To find out what looks like ADHD and is not, I invite you to grab your copy of the free “Maybe they do not have ADHD” stock and checklists. Discover the 12 factors that may contribute to ADHD-like behavior of http://smartkidssmartparents.com/adhd/inventory/~~HEAD=pobj Give teachers and parents. Help stop the over-diagnosis of ADHD!
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