Hey Kids! Your Frosted Flakes and Coffee Are Ready!

Are your kids too drowsy as they head off to school?  Here's a solution you may not have considered:  a hot cup of coffee!

According to Yahoo! News, Brazil's Coffee Industry Association has brewed up an "Adopt-a-School" plan to serve up to 1 million schoolchildren aged 6 to 18 a free breakfast -- complete with a cup of java.

Under the plan, each Brazilian coffee roaster would adopt a school of at least 500 children and provide them with a free breakfast of coffee, milk and bread.

"Kids have soft drinks at school. ... Why not coffee instead to make them alert and attentive?" Professor Darcy Lima, project scientific adviser, told the association's annual conference in northeast Brazil.

Yahoo! News continues, "Bruno Giestas, commercial manager of Realcafe in Brazil's No. 2 coffee state Espirito Santo, said his two young children loved coffee.  "It's normal here. The project looks like a good idea."

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[laura g brown]

Coffee is known to be a stimulant, and to increase the heart rate. While we might ignore this (or embrace it) as we quaff our morning "shot of adrenaline" I think we can keep this drug from our kids. I mean, c'mon, do you really think 6-year-olds need more energy?