Giving Children The Best Start with Breakfast

Yesterday was the first day of school for my junior high student {my daughter starts school next week} and we celebrated with an early morning breakfast with his best friend and  his mom before the boys went to school. I know both of  us moms felt so lucky to be able to share an enjoyable and fun breakfast with our teen boys before they trudged off to the fun & excitement of Grade 9. After the boys  left for school,  as I was clearing off the table and cleaning up the kitchen, it was not lost on me on how lucky we are to be able to put food on the table to feed our children.  As a blogging partner for  Kellogg’s Breakfasts for Better Days program this September, I have recently learned that 1 in 7 Canadian children go to school without breakfast. Being a mom of two children myself, this statistic is very upsetting to me. I could not imagine sending a child to school without any kind of food in their tummy to help sustain and fuel their learning for the school day.

According to the second annual Kellogg’s Breakfasts for Better Days Survey of Canadian teachers,  students who miss breakfast lose an average of 104 minutes of learning time every day due to hunger, and that alone can add up to 3 months of lost learning time over the course of  a year.  When a child arrives at school without breakfast, it has an immediate affect on the child’s day and their ability to learn. Hungry children can suffer from a range of things including: growling tummies, lethargy, loss of concentration, inability to focus, headache, a feeling of not being well and poor mood.  

After learning this information, I am so happy to be able to help spread the word about Kellogg’s Breakfasts For Better Days program. Kellogg’s is working to raise awareness about the impact of child hunger in the classroom.  Simply put,  missing breakfast leads to lost education and Kellogg’s wants to change this.  As  part of this program, I will be missing breakfast for 4 days this week so that I can experience what it feels like to be hungry and try to focus on my day while coping with the effects of hunger. Here is my first video journal.

To help Canadian children who struggle in the classroom due to hunger, Kellogg’s  has supported breakfast programs around the country, along with the thousands of volunteers who are actively working to stamp out hunger in the classroom, for over 10 years. In addition to this, for every box of Kellogg’s cereal sold, Kellogg’s is donating a portion of the proceeds, to a maximum of $100, 000, to it’s breakfast partners across the country. To date, over the past 10 years, Kellogg’s has donated more than one million dollars to breakfast clubs from coast to coast.  Kellogg’s is encouraging Canadians  to buy a box of cereal and help feed children and families who need it most. 

Please follow the conversation this week about Kellogg’s Breakfasts For  Better Days by following #LostEducation

Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Kellogg’s Canada. All opinion are 100% my own opinions. As always, I only partner with brands that I love and use in my own home.