How Europeans start their day is way different from how Africans (in America) start theirs. I mean since we are adapting their hair and clothing label styles, we might as well grab some elements that make them successful too 
Typically, most of the Black family households start with a bowl or two of sugary sweet cereal. I would say which brands are the favorite ones but you already know.
Starting a child’s day with sugar is in NO way a benefit to that child. Sugar has the tendency to get you HIGH, and then it brings you down. While you are high, your attention is all over the place. Focusing for long periods becomes very difficult. When people say things like, ” your child is bouncing off the wall,” this is usually a result of being high. Sending a baby to class high is counterproductive.
When the lows set in a child will become detached and not attentive. He or she will seem to be unconcerned with whatever is going on around them. Drowsiness and a need to nap will be the ultimate outcome.
There’s a million healthy cereals on the market; try a few and see which ones suit your tasebuds best. Puffins are pretty good and low in sugar. Kashi is another brand that is high in the good stuff and low in the bad elements.
I KNOW WE ARE A VERY VISUAL PEOPLE AND THE COLORFUL BOX WITH CARTOONS AND WHATEVER SEEMS LIKE THE BEST CHOICE, BUT IT’S NOT. IN ACTUALITY, THE BOX WITH THE BORING COLORS AND OLD WHITE PEOPLE SMILING ON THE BOX IS USUALLY THE BEST CHOICE!
Oh, and before I forget: Parents PLEASE stop filling your baby’s bottle with sugary sweet juices. Water down their drink a lot if you are going to give them sweet juices. Giving them straight up sugar at that age is feeding into the addiction very early on.
Candy is a no no! You are the parent, NOT THEM. If they cry or whatever, you are the ultimate judge! If they get mad, so what, they’ll get over it. You have the power to give them a better future.
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Awesome article! I am going to send this out to friends. A Must read.
Thank you KLP. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone somewhere.
Yes! If you don’t have the time to make a balanced breakfast, and you’re instead feeding your child a bowl of cereal (and possibly a piece of fruit) there are many healthy options offered today. I feel like when we were growing up we only had Raisin Bran (which is actually yummy) and plain Cheerios. But now you walk down the cereal aisle and there’s at least a dozen organic or otherwise healthy cereal options to get your child off to a focused, alert start for a day of learning.
I have three children all who do not eat sugar cereal, I learned from my mother, who learned from hers how to bake, seriously it takes 45 mins to make blueberry, bran even banana nut muffins from scratch, not only can you stuff a recipe with veggies. YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOING IN IT! give them a cup of juice and or a piece of fruit and they are good. feed them crap and guess how they will act!!!!
My mom used to make her own baby food for us and it’s an idea that I’ve always thought I’d like to implement when I have my own children. It just seems like it’d be so much healthier and nutritious, plus like you said, that way you know what’s going in it. My dream home would have tons of land for my family to grow our own food… then we’d really really know.
Wait you left out the shinning of the silver spoon
Ummm yea so your trying to make a statemnet but you didn’t give how White people start their day…..
uhhhh good article and all, but “Europeans” also include a lot of poverty stricken people all over, in Barcelona Spain, Rome- every city has poverty “hood”-like areas. I’m sure they, too don’t get their appropriate dietary needs,
and another thing- PLENTY of white kids in the Suburbs and high-class people (like those phony Barbie doll nearly-braindead girls on Laguna beach all can be ’sugary cereal’ eaters, especially the more wealthy kids since they do whatever they want.
Just wanted to clarify two little things.
and if you’re hating on ‘white people’ just because a portion of “Africans (in America)” (AKA African-Americans) eat sugary cereal in the morning, you should open your eyes a little more. Quit this blame-game ‘white people this’ and that and the other thing, Yes the people who founded America (and other EU countries) exploited Africa, and still do. However, plenty of as you say, White people, do a lot for the non-whites.
Plusss, theres a lot of black people who are wealthy and pompous and don’t do anything for the black community.
Im not even a pure-bred kracka I’m half colombian but it still frustrates me when theres still all these articles with ‘white people do this’ and just stereotypical irrelevent jargen. nuff said, ive typed anough jeeze.
I was being sarcastic. But it seems that as silly as thisstory/BS is they didnt say that white people eat with silver spoons.
There are millions of white kids who dont get anything for breakfast or lunch. Of course some black folks will say that this is only black folks.
And then again look at all the fat kids black and white period and the skinny white and black kids wearing the Nikes and Tommy Hilfilger.
Yeah only the black kids have it bad………….
thats not how white people start their mornings…thats how all responsible people start their mornings…common sense, right? “Start the day with a healthy and nutritious breakfast”, everybody was taught that….i thought…
i cant imagine why you think white people don’t eat sugary cereals but ok.
whatever you say..
that little girl in the pic is a cutie though!!!
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Don’t know WHY we think we have to follow the pig to the market and then wonder why we get sold instead.
Damn st anger what did you start the day with?? Piss??
Hey homeboy if not for sugar eating crackers you
wouldn’t have an oppurtunity to spread your fictionous
b.s..
You would be sitting or sleeping in a fly infested mud
hut on the dark continent trying to convince your
local witch doctor to chase the evil spirits from your
itchy fungus infected nuts.
But, because of sugar eating crackers you have a place
to live that gives you access to reach millions of
people with your whiney “we all victims” blog…LMFAO.
By the way I don’t blame blacks for trying to reconstruct
their looks, to look white,I’ve never seen a natural born
african win a beauty contest…LMFAO again.
Stop whining ,and be thankful whites saved you from the
despair of the uncivilized land of mud huts,where flies eat your
skin and dirty drinking water is a luxury, and sugary ceral is
plentiful, after all you could be eating you neighbors arm like
your distance cousins.
With sugar that came from the slave trade, along with the diamond mines, copper, iron ore oil ,tect etc, without which all sugar eating crackers would still be with their snouts in the dirt looking for what they think passes as food and grilling their spawn come sundown. In fact that nasty cracker cereal is STILL attempting to pass for food.