We've all heard that breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the day. There's the commercial with the frosted mini-wheat quizzing a little boy during breakfast (Kellogg's stating that “A clinical study showed kids who had a filling breakfast of Frosted Mini-Wheats cereal improved their attentiveness by nearly 20 percent.”) Now studies are saying that children who skip breakfast; miss school more often, are unable to problem solve, and generally have slower memories ( read http://www.shortweet.com/5609ac). Can it be as simple as eating a bowl of cereal or sitting down to eat breakfast that will help our kids do better in school?
Sure breakfast can prevent children from experiencing distracting hunger pains during morning class but is breakfast the answer to doing better in school? No I don't think it's as simple as that. So many of us are always looking for a "quick fix", a "right now" answer. Having breakfast may stop the hunger pains but it doesn't necessarily mean that it will increase their attention span. We are going to have to dig a little deeper than that. Likewise because a child skips breakfast doesn't mean that he/she is going to miss school often. I think there are some key factors that we are missing here. It also turns out that whether a child's family consists of one parent or two working parents, children still skip breakfast or don't eat a nutritional one (looks like we can't play the socio-economic card). Yes, we are going to have to dig deeper to find the answer to helping our children do better in school.
We are going to have to have parent involvement (imagine that), teacher creativity, community involvement, and student involvement (and yes we can include nutritional breakfast).
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