beware of the cartoon Leprechaun

my wife and take the responsibility of raising healthy children very important, raising them spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy.  now were not perfect, we make mistakes 90% or more my mistakes.  but we try to set a good example with the things we eat and what we get our kids to eat.  we try not to get that worthless sugar filled nutrition less cereals(not mentioning any names cause i don’t want to be sued) and the kids do pretty good with it.

we’ll kate called me at work the other day with a funny story about jewell our 6 year old daughter.  seams jewell was watching tv and saw something that she thought was pretty cool, she came down to kate and told here that marshmallow cereal had 12 vitamins and that was all that jewell needed to be convinced that that marshmallow cereal was god for you.

well i thought that it was a funny story and have told it to lots of people this week and got a lot of laughs, but i was thinking about it today.  kate and i tell our kids things like it’s important to eat healthy everyday, we tell them that junk cereal isn’t good for them and it took one cartoon leprechaun to change our little daughters mind, not don’t get the wrong impression of what i’m saying.  i’m not mad or anything like that at jewell, it’s just a example of how influenced our children with the media even at 6 years old.  if our child who believes us and trusts us can question what we are telling her on something simple like breakfast cereal then what about the bigger things is she going to believe tv, her friends, the radio, or something else when they tell her something different then we do, are your kids?  jewell is truly a great daughter and she does believe us and it’s she was being rebellious in any way she just thought mom and dad were mistaken, that this cereal was good for her because they said so on tv.  our kids are always hearing things that are opposite of what we tell them this isn’t just about crappy cereal, it’s about sex, drugs, believing in Jesus, doing the right thing when everyone else isn’t, so any parents if your read this lets just be clear with our kids so when they hear something (and they will) that contradicts with what we tell them they will know the truth.