Reason #483 to homeschool. Although, I suppose quite a few of them could all be lumped together under The Banner of Stupidity.
Frequent classmate parties once had students consuming numerous unplanned cupcakes each school year.
I'm quite certain we don't even have a word in our language to describe how incredibly stupid this statement is. Numerous unplanned cupcakes? Did a large quantity of miniature cakes just spontaneously appear? Sounds like Bake Sale Heaven.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never sat down and planned the sequencing or quantity of my children's consumption of cupcakes. They just, uh, happen.
But no cupcakes - they're bad for you.
What about emotional well being? Hey, there will be childhood trauma experts to console the kids.
Think of the extended therapy in adulthood.
I am in the wrong business. :)
Duxbury MA also known as Deluxbury. Very affluent town on the coast.
My "adopted" grandchildren, four, ten and ten, were here last weekend for three days. Their Dad and I decided to engage in a "science experiment" and did not let them have any sugar the whole three days. No sodas, no juice drinks (worse than sodas) no candy, nothing with added sugar. Just healthy snacks, strawberries and cherries, natural sugar.
The bottom line was that they were the best behaved that either one of us had ever seen. Please, thank you, all the right manners. And moreover, they were HAPPY! They had a great weekend, and there was no fighting, grousing, sassing, crying. Just three great healthy kids. What a relief it was!
I hate to disagree with everyone here, but I think that having the schools provide ultra sweet stuff is counterproductive.
Oooh ... the serious social problem of *unplanned* cupcakes. Maybe if the cupcakes were *planned* it wouldn't be so bad. But we all know what you have to do with those *unplanned* ones...