Ten Ways to Make Your Kid Fat

Earlier this week, ZisBoomBah.com released a humorous look at the way our busy, on-the-go lifestyles can lead to poor eating habits in our children. These habits can negatively impact their moods, energy levels, sleep habits, and overall health. Parents will laugh, and possibly cringe, at this tongue-in-cheek look at 10 ways we can make our children fat without even trying. To read the full article, please click here. In the meantime, here are a few highlights from the list to whet your appetite:

10 Ways to Make Your Kid Fat (By Sarah Henderson):

1. Don’t feed your kids breakfast. It’s hard enough to get them out the door in the morning anyway. Geez, moms need a break too. Just make sure you put a candy bar in their pocket, in case their blood sugar drops a little later on.

5. Buy processed food, not fresh. Because the more pre-prepared (and therefore probably ultra-processed) the food already is when you buy it, the less hassle it is for you to serve that food for dinner once you bring it home! Let the food manufacturers do the prep work for you… creates jobs too. And for some weird reason, the more hands have handled your food the cheaper it gets.

5. Water is boring. Your kids are right when they say it’s yucky. It doesn’t taste like anything. Sweet bubbly soda and other sugary drinks are a lot more fun, and the colorful cans and bottles are so cute.

10. Don’t have family meals. Family mealtime is a breeding ground for talks about the stuff that’s going on in your kid’s head – and who can deal with that after a busy workday? They might even start paying attention to what you’re serving them or will want to get involved in the kitchen. That would be a bother.

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