{"id":32413,"date":"2013-09-20T02:26:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T06:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=32413"},"modified":"2013-09-20T02:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T06:26:25","slug":"her-ex-feeds-candy-to-their-adhd-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/her-ex-feeds-candy-to-their-adhd-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Her ex feeds candy to their ADHD kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend writes that she limits the sugar intake of her two kids because they get very wired when they eat it. They are both falling behind in school because of inability to stay focused. \u00a0Her ex has visitation every weekend and gives the children chocolate and soda. He says their behavior and short attention span is unrelated to sugar, despite studies that show\u00a0some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.additudemag.com\/adhd\/article\/5143.html\" target=\"_self\">ADHD kids are &#8220;turned on&#8221; by sweet stuff<\/a>. \u00a0She&#8217;s experimented and has seen that they focus better without sugar and processed foods. He won&#8217;t listen. She is open to suggestions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/her-ex-feeds-candy-to-their-adhd-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Her ex feeds candy to their ADHD kids&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/her-ex-feeds-candy-to-their-adhd-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/her-ex-feeds-candy-to-their-adhd-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/her-ex-feeds-candy-to-their-adhd-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Her%20ex%20feeds%20candy%20to%20their%20ADHD%20kids&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/her-ex-feeds-candy-to-their-adhd-kids\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend writes that she limits the sugar intake of her two kids because they get very wired when they eat it. They are both falling behind in school because of inability to stay focused. \u00a0Her ex has visitation every weekend and gives the children chocolate and soda. He says their behavior and short attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32415,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32413\/revisions\/32415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}