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Michelle Obama: ‘We Start With Kids ... We Can Affect Who They Will Be Forever
CNS News ^ | 10/19/2011 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 10/19/2011 10:56:49 AM PDT by IbJensen

(CNSNews.com) - First Lady Michelle Obama said yesterday that the government can affect who kids “will be forever” if it can shape their "habits and preferences" during the large part of the day they are at school.

Mrs. Obama was speaking on the South Lawn of the White House at a reception to honor schools that met the goals of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC). The USDA Web site describes HUSSC as “a voluntary initiative established in 2004 to recognize those schools participating in the National School Lunch Program that have created healthier school environments through promotion of nutrition and physical activity.” The program has since been rolled into Mrs. Obama’s “Let’s Move!” initiative.

“When many kids spend half of their waking hours and get up to half their daily calories at school, you know that with the food you serve and, more importantly, the lessons you teach that you're not just shaping their habits and preferences today, you’re affecting the choices they’re going to make for the rest of their lives,” said Mrs. Obama.

“That's why we start with kids, right?” she said. “We can affect who they will be forever.”

At the reception, Mrs. Obama praised the 1,273 schools that have doubled the number of students eating federally subsidized meals that fit the program’s criteria.

Among the schools Mrs. Obama praised was the Burlington Elementary School of North Dakota, where, she said, the teachers eat two USDA-approved meals a day with the students.

“And the teachers eat breakfast and lunch with students every single day,” said Mrs. Obama. “Now, that's a sacrifice. You know it. That's love. They even send out a monthly newsletter called, “Nutrition Notes,” to provide healthy eating tips and recipes for the families.

“You’re affecting not just how these kids feed themselves, but how they’re going to feed their own children,” she said.

“So the beauty is, is that you’re not just making this generation of kids healthier, but the next generation as well. And that is truly, truly powerful stuff,” she said.

Mrs. Obama said that the children trained in these schools may have a trickle-down effect on their families.

“They're changing the way they think about their health and they're trickling that information down to their families,” said the First Lady.


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KEYWORDS: flotusmichelle; foodpolice; hussein; michelleobama; moochhell; nannystate; obamajugend; socialists
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To: IbJensen
"The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent."

– John Dewey, Progressive educator

21 posted on 10/19/2011 11:06:17 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: IbJensen
Mrs. Obama said that the children trained in these schools not taught, TRAINED. For future and forever Democratic votes. Exactly what these people are about.
22 posted on 10/19/2011 11:06:37 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: IbJensen

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”~Adolf Hitler


23 posted on 10/19/2011 11:06:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: IbJensen

Sieg Heil!!!


24 posted on 10/19/2011 11:08:28 AM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: Joe Brower
And from the opposite corner, some wisdom:

"Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still posses."

–C.S. Lewis

25 posted on 10/19/2011 11:08:46 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: IbJensen

- First Lady Michelle Obama said yesterday that the government can affect who kids “will be forever” if it can shape their “habits and preferences” during the large part of the day they are at school

If this isn’t a good reason to homeschool children I don’t know what is......These commies will do anything to warp the minds of the next generation


26 posted on 10/19/2011 11:09:59 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: skimbell

White House Commie opens big mouth & out comes the truth...who made the mistake of letting her speak without TOTUS!


27 posted on 10/19/2011 11:10:24 AM PDT by Stayfree (Find out the truth at Lawyers-Lawsuits.com!)
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To: allmost

This has been brought to you by the same Department of Indoctrination that brought us the likes of Bill Ayers and Moochelle Obama. Perpetuation of the Communist Doctrine by our Public Educators. Does anyone ever recall Nikita Khrushchev saying “Your children will bury you”? That was not a reference to an open war. It was a reference to we have them.


28 posted on 10/19/2011 11:11:12 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: IbJensen

She’s disgusting


29 posted on 10/19/2011 11:11:50 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
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To: IbJensen
REUTERS
30 posted on 10/19/2011 11:13:04 AM PDT by maggief
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To: IbJensen

this should put to rest any doubts whether or not gov’t schools are trying to brainwash your children with the latest politically correct crap


31 posted on 10/19/2011 11:13:15 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: IbJensen

BRAINWASHING


32 posted on 10/19/2011 11:13:22 AM PDT by bt579 (If you voted for Obama to prove you werent racist, vote someone else 2012 to prove ur not a Idiot)
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To: IbJensen
All Mrs. Obama’s heroes - Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Alinksy - would be so proud.
33 posted on 10/19/2011 11:14:43 AM PDT by mojito
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To: IbJensen

This is so NOT the job of the government.


34 posted on 10/19/2011 11:15:06 AM PDT by GSWarrior (Click HERE to expand this tagline)
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To: IbJensen

Disney WARNING about indoctrination of children !!
A must see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyW-3YC2IVQ


35 posted on 10/19/2011 11:15:24 AM PDT by MtnMan101 (THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIALISUM IS THAT YOU EVENTUALLY RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY)
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To: IbJensen; All

Check this out...

http://www.tacsei.org/

This is a pilot program for changing/managing behaviors in school children from preschool on. This is being piloted in the school district I live in (they received a grant). They talk about intervention a lot...


36 posted on 10/19/2011 11:15:40 AM PDT by jurroppi1
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To: IbJensen
Obama's term is nothing more than a training camp for his little army...similar to....uhhh...what's his name.....circa 1940....

Eat, march and drink the kool aid.

God help us!!

37 posted on 10/19/2011 11:15:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: IbJensen

And her 2 brats go to private schools.


38 posted on 10/19/2011 11:16:05 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer) (")
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To: IbJensen

This is exactly what our forefathers did not want to happen.


39 posted on 10/19/2011 11:20:11 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: IbJensen

I’m okay with this if it just involves nutrition in school lunches and teaching kids how our bodies react to different foods. Make it another class and call it “On-Hand Nutritional Science” or something and take a field trip to the cafeteria everyday at noon. Just make them take a test and grade them.

It’s a tough call. But kids sit around all day playing video games when they are not in school. They ain’t helping themselves at all and a little nutrition won’t hurt.


40 posted on 10/19/2011 11:20:25 AM PDT by Hatteras
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