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PSA from kindergarten teachers for parents on the day after Halloween

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 especially hard when you're trying to get your kids awake and ready for school,” Katie Thompson, a kindergarten teacher in Oklahoma, began a Facebook post that first went viral in 2022 .

“Dressing a hungover, angry pterodactyl is no fun. But PLEASE DO NOT bribe the dazed elementary school goblins with trick-or-treating candy and send them to school with two handfuls of Pixy Stix and a wish,” Thompson continued.

According to Thompson, teachers would much prefer a “moody kid in pajamas” to a “hyperglycemic werewolf.”

“Put down the blow pop,” Thompson wrote. “Your job on November 1st is to send them to school with bedhead and a shortbread and whatever mood has just taken over. We detoxify them of red dyes and artificial flavors and send them back to you at 3 p.m..”

“We leave at dawn,” she added.

“The electric blue Fun Dip tongues are killing me! At least make an effort to hide the evidence!! One person shared this in the comments.

Another added: “I told all my parents leaving the party, 'Please don't give them sweets for breakfast!' See you in the morning!'”

Several studies of children who ate either a placebo or real sugar – neither the parents nor the children know who ate what – found that the children who ate sugar behaved no differently than those who did not consume sugar. said Dr. John Torres, NBC News Medical correspondent shared on TODAY in 2023.

If your own children's behavior contradicts these findings, Torres says several factors come into play.

“NO. 1: You think (your kids) will get more excited when they eat sugar, so you blame everything they do after they eat sugar on the sugar,” he explained. “NO. 2, (Children) usually get sugar at celebrations and parties, when they are hanging out with their friends or running amok.”

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