Comments on: Children And Consumption

By: sue

sue — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:17:18 +0000

Come on Indi.. Indulge those kids. My kids have boring healthy food at home. I am sure it’s the same with the kids you take out. It’s ok for kids to have junk food occasionally. Anyway it’s very easy to brainwash the kids and scare them into eating healthy food. When they are older they want to look good so are careful with their diet. Believe me. I am a mother of two teenage girls, one is a vegetarian.

By: Randomramblings

Randomramblings — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:20:04 +0000

Hi Indi, i have a son wh0 is 2 1/2… i never give him fizzy drinks even when we go out. Plus, at home, consciously i give him healthy foods and now he’s used to eating more traditional foods like mallum and the like. It all depends how you bring up your children… he loves fresh juices and doesnt even miss the junk food.. occasionally, we spoil him by giving him an ice cream or some fries but it is very rare..

By: Rajaratarala

Rajaratarala — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:49:55 +0000

Just go into a village kade anywhere and see how many sweets with and without wrappings are in Jars in front just to entice the kids. Sadly I see kids demanding them from parents and wrappings littering the area outside the kade. This selection increases and now the chewing gums also. I also have a kade that sells the good stuff (papaya, banana, orange, mango etc.) but the bad stuff seems to have a greater demand, and cheaper on a unit basis too, as a worthless sweet is Rs 5 and a Banana is 10!

There are no trash cans outside kades, just piles of debri after the morning sweep, both biodegradable organic matter and the non-biodegradable in the same heap but then that is a subject for another time! sorry

By: chithaka

chithaka — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:22:08 +0000

good thoughts.. Its parents who should educated about this, as they should not buy every thing child demanding..

By: Whimsical

Whimsical — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:42:20 +0000

Maybe this is just a problem of the Colombo crowd. In the outstations kids still eat three wholesome meals a day (maybe less!) without junk food, draw water from a fresh ground well, and spend their time playing outdoors with their friends instead of sitting in front of a TV.

By: Jack Point

Jack Point — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:25:32 +0000

I grew up with sugary Elephant House drinks, although not quite so much of the other stuff. Parents need to understand proper nutrition and bring up their children accordingly.

Human’s have a strong positive response to sugar and once that and other junk food is introduced it becomes hard to get rid of until the person is old enough to understand the health problems and change their habits.

I grew out of it eventually.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:36:28 +0000

You COULD just live outside colombo? Plenty of things to do while growing up that doesn’t involve buying. Add to that the easily available fruit and stuff from the back yard. Yeah, I grew up hardcore, man :p