Little Sugar Addicts: End the Mood Swings, Meltdowns, Tantrums, and Low Self-Esteem in Your Child Today

Sugar Is Not Love Do you have a smart, creative, loving child who is also cranky, inattentive, and sometimes downright obnoxious? If youve written off this negative behavior as typical for your childs agewhether toddler or teenstop and think: Does your child have a taste for soda, sugary breakfast cereals, and treats like candy and cookies? Does she eat regularly scheduled meals or skip them? What, exactly, does he drink and snack on throughout the day? Your childs behavior may be linked to dietspecifically to the sugar in obvious sources like sweets and soda and to hidden sugars that lurk in many foods, fruit-based drinks, and healthy snacks like granola bars. And if your son or daughter is sugar sensitive, misbehavior and moodiness can be aggravated by missed or late meals and junk foods. Now, bestselling author Kathleen DesMaisons offers you a workable solution for getting back your child by changing his dietwithout creating a sense of deprivation, without setting unrealistic goals, and without turning sugar into forbidden fruit. This book offers: A step-by-step program, backed by years of research, for gradually improving the food your child eatsyou and your whole family will benefit! Tips for navigating the sugar-laden world of birthday parties, holidays, and school cafeterias Ways to incorporate healthy snacking and regular mealtimes into your childs day, including suggestions for meals and snacks, plus recipes Little Sugar Addicts isnt about strange foods, dramatic lifestyle changes, or complicated menusjust support, guidance, and real-life suggestions from other parents that work. It will help you make the connection between the addictive qualities of sugar and negative behavior and offer a healthy solution you and your whole family can live with.