When I was a child, a can of soda pop was something we enjoyed on special occasions, maybe on the 4th of July or our birthdays. It was a treat. I was at dinner the other night at a friend's house and was surprised by the behavior of her children when they asked for a certain kind of soda and their mom didn't have it for them. They acted like she was starving them. We've come a long way from the days when soda was a treat, and an even longer way from the Great Depression. Post Depression-era parents didn't want their kids to go without the way they had, so they taught their children to hold their hands out in expectation. This is where I think most of our money problems stem from today...a lack of respect torwards money. Today's generation, instead of fearingthat it will not have anything (like Depression-era people), fears that it will not have EVERYTHING...including the exact type of soda they demand. People can so easily get along with so very little, but don't know it in today's consumeristic society.
When Soda Was a Treat
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And I agree, parents who had to want for so much are actually denying their kids some of the best parts of 'wanting'..it is good to have treats, but if you have them everyday they are no longer treats...kindof like the smiling hill farm rigamarole over bread...could you imagine craving bread? They had no cornmeal..and the corn wasn't tall enough to harvest for a month...not that I recommend depriving kids of bread..but that when you are without it becomes so much more precious to have...I think some things should be kept in a 'treat perspective' and others..well the occasional 'fast' should be good enough to know why we like em.
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If there's so many health issues today, I'd say that
Soda is at the top as a cause. We have water when we go out to dinner. I drink soda's once in a great while, but not constantly. This one Doctor/Nutritionist says that if you eat 90% healthy, that you can eat 10% of a not so healthy food. Our bodies were meant to break down even poisons but I think that our bodies are so overly toxic that it doesn't perform the function that it should.
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