I live in Ga too, personally, I believe alot of the behavior problems would be solved as well if they let the kids have more down time to run off steam. In some schools, they have stopped playing on the playground all together by making the kids walk the walking track. It's ridiculous, one kid skins their knee playing basketball or gets their feelings hurt they ban it all together. And as for the food thing, my mom cooked everything from scratch as well, we drank whole milk, real butter, lots of red meat, mashed potatoes, lasagna, desserts, etc. things that you would only consider serving once in while because of the fat grams. But mommy didn't drive us down the street to a friends house. We had bikes, if you didn't ride your bike you walked or you stayed home. When we were kids we played outside all day, and you took your lumps too from the older kids, it was that or you had to tell your mom and she'd give you the choice of work it out or you can stay inside with her and clean. Its the dang 200 channels geared to kids & video games (they put your kid into some kind of a trance). Free babysitting. And as for being active with my kids in sports, we still eat dinner together everynight. I've learned alot about casseroles, crockpots and preparing ahead of time.
Bumping that!!!!!!!!!!!!