Taking a break from Rush for a moment... WTF is going on with kids' teeth..?

[laundry_queen]

24. My kids didn't eat much sugar

rarely had pop (special occasions only, like Christmas or birthdays), hardly ever had candy (a few times/year maybe), ate vegetables and cheese for snacks, drank milk or water and rarely juice. Yet all of my kids had some decay and 3 required surgery by the age of 3.

My friend, by comparison, constantly gave her kids lollipops and chocolate bars, and her kids were all juice-aholics. Not a single cavity.

BTW, parents monitor what their kids eat just the same as they always did. In fact, most parents where I live are ultra-anal and so are the schools (we brown bag lunches here and always get literature about nutrition). They have 'rainbow lunch' days where they are supposed to bring brightly coloured natural foods and 'fresh fruit Fridays' which is self-explanatory. There's a huge movement here for people feeding their kids organic. In my 14 years as a parent, I have yet to meet a single parent who didn't care what their kids ate. Even my friend who gave her kids all kinds of candy was very careful about giving them tons of veggies and fruits regularly. She just didn't see sugar as a problem, like I did (of course it helps to have kids who are so sensitive to chocolate that a chocolate ice cream cone will make them run circles in the yard for hours on end - makes you aware of their sugar intake pretty darn quick, lol). But yeah, haven't seen any parents who are laissez-faire when it comes to their kids' food. I think it's a myth, myself.