Ah, those wonderful, no-class folks, and their kids.

[Ronni]

I'm not saying this is what happened to Cameron, I'm just using it as an example of bad behaviors in children. I'm so glad he turned out to be an exemplary young man.

My daughter's SIL had a boy that was a terror, not a biter but he once took a plastic baseball bat and hit my granddaughter on the head. Good thing it wasn't the real thing! He was also very hyperactive and destructive. His mother let him drink soda, and when she finally stopped giving it to him he calmed down considerably and started acting decent for a child. I think kids nowadays drink too much soda/caffeine and that, besides lenient parents, could be part of the problem.

I definitely think diet can play a significant role in behavior issues with children. In Cameron‘s case, and with all my kids, I did my very best, even though we were poor, with their diets. I never had soda in the house, they drank water and very watered down apple juice occasionally. Sweets were a special treat they had every week or two. They ate too many carbohydrates for my liking, but only because potatoes and beans and brown rice were cheap and filling.

I can’t know for sure if his behavior issues were diet related, but I don’t honestly think they were compounded by the food choices I made. He had some emotional issues, some wiring that was different from his siblings, something. I will never know for sure what it was, but I am profoundly grateful that he worked his way through them with no lasting effects

 

[Catlady]

I can’t know for sure if his behavior issues were diet related, but I don’t honestly think they were compounded by the food choices I made. He had some emotional issues, some wiring that was different from his siblings, something. I will never know for sure what it was, but I am profoundly grateful that he worked his way through them with no lasting effects

Logic would say that if his issues were drink or food related, all 5 of your kids would have had the same issues. With my daughter's SIL, by the time she had her second son she had already figured out the link with soda with her first son and the second son was a ''normal kid''.