Jell-o® takes the all-natural trend mainstream

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You remember – most of us grew up with them – Jell-o flavored gelatins and Jell-o puddings. Maybe you still buy them for the grandkids, or even for yourself. Vanilla pudding was my all time favorite. Now Jell-o is joining the parade of huge companies that are responding seriously to the public’s concerns about artificial colors, sweeteners and other ingredients. Thus is born Jell-o Simply Good: 4 flavors of gelatin mix made with juices and 4 flavors of pudding mix, all made with real cane sugar – no HF corn syrup or aspartame – and colored with vegetable and spice extracts.
New Jell-o Simply Good mixes
New Jell-o Simply Good mixes
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You can still buy the original and diet versions (a mainstay for many), but it’s good to know the kids can have great taste without fake stuff to make it so. It’s interesting they recommend making the new puddings with 2% milk and don’t suggest skim milk as an alternate.  Don’t remember what the original banana pudding mix tasted like, but this new version tastes very, very good. Feels like I can tell there’s nothing artificial in it – like a dessert in a good restaurant.
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The campaign to present the new product line was inspired by having a bunch of kids answer questions honestly about what they know/think about artificial ingredients. And the company obviously chose carefully the flavors to start with: orange-tangerine, strawberry, pineapple-orange, and mixed berry gelatin mixes; vanilla-bean, banana, chocolate caramel, and chocolate pudding mixes flavored with good stuff like real cocoa, vanilla bean and banana.
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If you make it for your kids, you’re invited to share their feedback using hashtag #DelightfullyHonest on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Jell-o is pretty sure your kids are gonna have good things to say about these new mixes.
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In the campaign videos the kids don’t actually talk about their reactions to the product, but they’re cute anyway. Hey, they’re kids.
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What can you do about porn on kid movie sites

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English: Caricature on "The great epidemi...
English: Caricature on “The great epidemic of pornography”. From 19th-century French illustration (in Courrier Français?). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It’s utterly confounding to realize that you may be able to find a site that offers the kids’ movie you want for free – but the screen is likely to be surrounded by suggestive drawings or photos that link to pornographic content.

How do you say “outrage”? For most of us baby boomers who were told next to nothing about sex – and probably had a tough time explaining it to our kids – this is an almost unimaginable challenge to the belief that it’s important to protect children’s innocence.

In a 2012  New York Times article, “When children see Internet pornography,” a young boy is quoted as asking his parent, “Mom, why do women like to be choked?” The article also contains a few links to programs for trying to manage this dire trend – though most experts say it is impossible to completely shield your kids from it.

In a 2015 article, “Parenting in the age of online porn,” experts say statistics are not so far indicating a younger generation that’s out of control sexually – teen pregnancy is down, sex among ninth graders is down. Gulp – ninth graders. When one mother discovered a previous search phrase on her computer for “child porn,” her older son told her he’d been looking for porn made for children because he wanted to know what his body was supposed to look like at his age. There’s that beautiful innocence.

Some therapists feel this epidemic of easily accessible pornography is extremely damaging to children and young teens. Yet the jury is apparently still out among other therapists on just how bad the long-term effects will be.  But there’s no question pornography can cause confusion, worry and/or fear even when children are able to process what they see with responsible, caring adults.

If we could legally stop advertising to children on Saturday morning cartoons, surely we can stop porn vendors from “advertising” on children’s content websites. Come on, legislators. Get with it.

Well, grandmothers, be deeply aware of the dangers when you search the Internet for free movies for your grandchildren. And do your due diligence on intelligent ways to handle it if it comes up with one of them.

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