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The not so great combination of Easter and Being a Mama

Being an oral health therapist and a mama is really hard over Easter. You walk into all the shops with your kids and all you see is chocolate, eggs, bunnies and bilbies and more chocolate. So much colourful alfoil and underneath all of that alfoil is sugar. So much sugar. Too much sugar. A ridiculous amount of sugar. And I mean a ridiculous amount! One of my childhood favourite eggs is The Humpty Dumpty Egg (165g) which I looked at the box yesterday and it has 25 teaspoons of sugar! Therefore approximately half of Humpty is sugar. My stomach churns at the thought of sitting down to eat 25 teaspoons of sugar.
All kids need new toothbrushes, floss and toothpaste to remove the sugar!


I saw mamas and papas on Easter Saturday in department stores getting angry at other because they took the last of the chocolate eggs with some sort of ridiculous toy in the box. I saw another mama actually hit another mama as she snagged the last of a bag of hunting eggs for an Easter egg hunt. Is this really what Easter is all about? I was gobsmacked. People were actually fighting about sugar.

I needed a T2 Relax tea after the shopping expedition yesterday, served with a low sugar dark chocolate brownie!
As I see the side affects of sugar on a daily basis. It's unfortunately what keeps me in a job. What I witnessed on Easter Saturday made my stomach sink. Grown people fighting over chocolate that they are going to give to their kids to gorge on. Give it two or three weeks and I will start to see the side affects of all the sugar... decayed teeth start to become sore and sensitive and I start to see little people with sick teeth. As an OHT, I hate this time of year. I hate looking in kindergarten aged children seeing big holes in little teeth.

Clothes, toothbrushes and a new kickboard for our camping trip next weekend.
The Easter Bunny did well

This time of year should be about having lovely time together as a a family. Think about getting things for your kids that they need. For example, new Easter themed PJs, colouring or story books, Easter crafts and throw in a toothbrush for good measure! Don't get me wrong, feel free to give a few little eggs, but Easter shouldn't revolve around mountains of eggs.....which ultimately is mountains of sugar which these little people can't handle. If you are giving eggs, go for the really dark chocolate, the ones with all of those lovely antioxidants to make us feel good and avoid the sugar!

Happy egg hunting and enjoy the rest of the lovely long weekend,

Love Leah xoxo
















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