Recipe for healthy kids

After watching a CNN Anderson Cooper video today of a two year old child having a  sippy cup of coffee every morning since she was 9 months old with her mother then getting "Tinker Tea" which is tea, pixie sticks, and Mountain Dew I had to write this post!  I'm not a perfect mom and my three year old has had pizza from a box, a yucky hot dog (which thankfully he didn't love), cake, cupcakes, and the like BUT for the majority of the time I do give him healthy food during meal times.

In my opinion a recipe for a healthy kid is as follows:

-love and affection

-sleep 12 hours at night 1 hour day

-fruits, veggies, and the right balance of the other stuff in moderation 

-exercise including as much fresh air as possible

-hand washing lots of hand washing

-brain workouts requiring focus

I'm sure if I had more time I could come up with a few more and in no way are my kids never sick but since I've been a stay at home mom the number of times we have been sick has drastically reduced to a few minor sicknesses per year (thank the good Lord!).  Sometimes you just cannot protect them because something's are completely out of your control!  

I am truly sad very sad about this poor child on the video and very sad that toddlers and tiaras have yet again disgraced parenting and what people think of pageantry as well.  

If you wish to watch the video here is the link:  http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/10/ridiculist-coffee-for-kids/