The Voice of Laura Chase

Warning…don’t withhold sugar  from your kids.  My advice?  Give your kids sugar, lots of it, or they will be permanently addicted to it later!!!  

My mom did not allow me to eat anything containing sugar, and it has affected my diet even at age 40.   Due to some type of fluke concerning a blood test that I had when I was 6, the doctors misdiagnosed me with a near diabetic condition.  My mom, (the most tenacious woman God ever put on this planet), decided it was her lot in life to make sure every granule of sugar was kept from my ever-thirsting, ever-drooling, ever sugar-craving,  lips.   

I only remember turning 7 yrs old because someone gave me a jumbo size Sugar Daddy Candy bar (about the size of your head).   But because of my “you’ll only eat that candy if you pry it from my dead fingers – mother”,  it remained in it’s package, on top of the fridge for months.  DROVE ME NUTS. 

 I also remember climbing on top of our kitchen counter regularly, reaching back into the highest and farthest cupboard, to grab and devour as many sugar cubes that I could, out of mom’s coffee stash.   Not to mention eating several Flintstones kids vitamins daily when mom sent us into brush our teeth; that was until she confiscated them out of my sugar greedy fingers. 

When I left home at 17 and headed to college…this was my chance and opportunity for freedom!  I enjoyed soft-serve vanilla icecream rolled in Lucky Charms and Fruitloops for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Cake, Pies, Candy…mmmmm. I still eat dessert first when we go out to dinner, want to make sure I have room for the best part!     

One last thing, my daughter nailed it on the head last night when we walked out of Publix with 3 boxes of Frootloops;  “Mom, you eat sugar all the time because your mom didn’t let you have it.  You still feel like you won’t get any later, so you have to eat as much as you can now while it’s around!”   Ahhh, smart child! 

I nodded in agreement and then shoved another fistful of Frootloops into my gaping mouth!