A PSA for parents about the day after Halloween is making the rounds again because it’s a doozy.
“I know the day after Halloween is extra hard when you’re trying to get your kids ready for school,” Katie Thompson, a kindergarten teacher in Oklahoma, began in a Facebook post that first went viral in 2022.
“Dressing a tomcat, angry pterodactyl is not fun. But please DO NOT bribe the giddy elemental goblins with trick or treat candy and send them to school with two handfuls of Pixy Stix and a wish,” Thompson continued.
According to Thompson, teachers would much rather have a “cranky kid in pajamas” than a “hyperglycemic werewolf.”
“Put down the Blow Pop,” Thompson wrote. “It is your duty to send them to school on November 1st with a bedhead and a buttered biscuit and whatever mood has prevailed. We will strip them of the red food coloring and artificial flavors and send them back to you by 3pm.
“We ride at dawn,” she added.
“The electric blue Fun Dip Tongues KILL ME! At least bother to hide the evidence!!” one person shared in the comments.
Yet another added: “I said to all my parents leaving the party, ‘Please don’t give them candy for breakfast! See you tomorrow!'”
Multiple studies of children who ate a placebo or real sugar — neither the parents nor the children know who ate what — have found that the children who ate sugar behaved no differently than those who did not, according to NBC News Medical Correspondent Dr. . John Torres shared on TODAY in 2023.
If your own children’s behavior contradicts these findings, Torres says there are a number of factors at play.
“No. 1, you think (your children) will become more irritable if they eat sugar, so everything they do after eating sugar, you blame it on the sugar,” he explained. “No. 2, (children) usually get sugar at parties and events, when they are hanging out with their friends or running amok.
This article was originally published on TODAY.com
