Every school year teachers, school officials and nutrionists try to come up with a unique way to get children to eat healthy snacks. Some schools have removed snack machines and soda machines. Some have come up with new menus and have asked kids to tell them which healthy snacks they liked most.

Maybe I am the only one who was brought up in another time era, but we had no choice as to what to eat and drink when we were kids. Our parents made the decisions for us and I am rearing my son in the same way that my parents reared me. It didn’t matter what meal it was that we sat down to, we knew that we had to eat everything on our plates. We had vegetables each day and sweets were a rarity.

But in today’s society, I see parents and teachers and schools pleading with children to eat well. Its no surprise that many children are overweight. The parents are to blame. They are the ones who are responsible. Society cannot and should not expect nor require the teachers and schools who are with your children for only a few hours a day to totally change the way that a child eats.

How much and what a child eats begins when a child is small and it begins at home. Until parents take responsibility instead of passing it on to their kids and then others, children today will continue to be overweight and unhealthy.

Not only that, but kids need to get outside more and be involved in more activities. When I was a child, we were outside constantly when we weren’t studying or eating a meal or asleep. There was no TV time except for maybe an hour a day. But now, watching television and surfing or chatting online and talking on the phone are all that kids do.

Control has to be taken back from them; And the only person that can take back the realms are the ones who gave them up in the first place: the parents!!