Philly Parents Patrol Corner Stores to Stop Students From Eating Junk Food

Are you kidding?? Who gave them the right to tell SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD" what they can and can't eat??? Are they barring entrance to the store? Snatching the kids; purchases out of their hands? Calling the police or the kids parents? Soon parents will have no rights at all to parent their own children. If parents give their kids money to buy a snack, I'm sure they don't think their kid is buying an apple, therefore they are giving their permission for the child to buy what he wants. People really need to mind their own business. I can see nothing but trouble coming from this.

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Perhaps the headaches and stomach aches are the result of the overbearing, draconian-like adults in the lives of these children. Given a good education and the chance to choose, most kids make smart choices. Are all the adults in the school good role models? Practice what you teach and the kids will learn.

What are they learning now? They are learning that it's OK to force your personal view on others. They are learning that a principal in a school can reach out beyond her scope of authority and bully others in the community. They are learning that personal choice is not allowed and, thus, personal responsibility does not exist.

When the adults in this community complain that the children are not smart enough, they can look in the mirror and see the one responsible.

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Whee! Nothing like grass roots fascism hard at work! Let's all help put an end to common sense, courtesy, and reason, by dancing the Knee-Jerk together. We can follow it up with a good workout in self righteous, over reaction.

Look I agree with healthy eating habits, but organizing bad snack patrols, to harass kids on the street, and asking retail outlets to not sell legal products to children in the course of legal commerce, is pushing it beyond reason in my book.

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Well there goes Halloween in Philly ! There going to need a riot squad on every street coner.

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Who appointed these nasty adults to bother children who are not their own? That tactic is Harrassment under the law and they should be arrested and bring this tactic to a swift end. Leave the kids alone. Take care of your own kids and leave someone else's kids alone. We don't need the food Gestapo.

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Holy friggin' crud! How did first grader Tatyana get the money for chips and soda every morning? What sorry excuse of a parent would teach this child that chips and soda EVERY DAY for breakfast is a good choice? What parent allows a first grader to walk to school alone or with "friends" that buy her that crap?? Don't "police" the convenience store, EDUCATE THE PARENTS to teach their kids better!

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.......ha ha ha......You have to feed your children something but packaged and fastfood...... Cooking is cheaper and easier than going thru the Junk Windows. Get easy recipes and feed your children better food at a lower cost. Buying a bag of potatoes and cooking them is better than buying the foolish boxes full of crap-chemicals for your kids. No Drive-Thru, cook and have leftovers.

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This is the stupidest sh*t I have read in a while. You are making junk food a forbidden thing you mouth breathing morons.

You are DEPRIVING them of something that makes them happy. So now, instead of teaching them to properly balance and handle that oh so inevitable and unavoidable need for...well CRAP, you are going to make it go underground. What was just a thoughtless preference is now going to become a focus.

Congrats, you are now a sh*t parent. You have no idea or influence over what goes in your kids face. When the little fat s*it is attending over eaters anon at 12 years old I hope the group leader lets the kids wail on you with a big stick for exercise.

Stop being lazy idiots and parent your kids. You are supposed to be teaching them FFS not just offering pointless edicts.

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Are you serious? I grew up in Philly, with soft pretzels, tastycakes, and water ice on every corner. My Nona made homemade pasta ,meatballs and brazioli every weekend, We ate Lanci's bread dipped in olive oil and garlic everyday and nobody got fat. Snap out of it!

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OMG, although I agree 100% that something has to be done about making kids healthier, what these people are doing is NONE OF THEIR DAMN BUSINESS!!!! Who gave them the right to make physical contact with other people's children? These self-appointed "junk food police" are asking for assault charges. They're also forgetting that these stores have every right to sell this "junk" to whoever can pay for it.

Many schools allow parents to pre-pay for school lunches, and when possible, kids can also brown-bag it under parental supervision.

If you don't want your young children to buy junk food, don't give them pocket money before school.

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Outstanding! Philly not only has the most unattractive people and they also have the fattest people in the country. Glad I moved from Roxborough to L.A. in '86.

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Anyone here ever been to N. Philly? Dont mind the dealers and ho's...Shootouts and shady characters...Protect my child from Pepsi, not Coke! Outrageous! Is this Mayor Nutters stategy to generate revenue???

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Maybe they'll rethink this before some young drug runner pulls a Glock on the Snack Police.

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I see a restraining order and stalking charges coming soon! WTF is this world coming to when other parents think they need to control someone elses kids? Try it to my kids. . . . .I DARE YOU! My 12 year old daughter will kick your a$$!

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All stores within a mile from the school, open after the kids are in school or post a sign that no miners durning school hours.

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I really have to laugh at all this. Is there a problem with kids today when it comes to their weight? Of course there is. And their diet is partially to blame, but for the most part it's not them buying a sweet snack on the way to school that is the problem. The problem is threefold. First of all, have you ever looked at what schools sell kids for lunch? It's crap. When I was a kid, we had one choice, either pack or buy the cafeteria meal which included carbs, protein, veggies and fruit. And we had one choice as to what we could drink, and that was milk. This is the first problem. The second problem is what the kids eat at home. Parents, for the most part, are too damn lazy to make a decent meal at night. So kids end up being fed a bunch of processed microwavable meals, or the parents bring home McDonald's. But the third problem is the biggest of them all. Parents allow their kids to sit in front of the television playing video games or games on the computer from the time they get home until they go to bed. Kids don't go outside to play anymore. They don't even know what it is to get sweaty from running around. And the schools have cut phys ed to the bone. This is a problem that can be turned around, but parents have to take the lead. I do know what I'm talking about. I'm 47 years old, 5'7" and I weigh 137 lbs. None of my kids are overweight. They run cross country and track, and they wrestle for their school. They eat balanced meals, and yes, they eat a bunch of garbage too, but because they eat a good balanced diet and they get plenty of physical activity, the extra junk food they eat doesn't do any harm. Limiting the calories kids eat is not the answer. Making those calories more nutritious and making certain the kids are made to burn off the calories they consume through actual physical activity is the only way kids will begin to shed those extra pounds.

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