Parents - your kids are bringing garbage snacks to school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a kindergarten teacher and there’s almost a 100% correlation between quality of snacks and quality of the kid (behavior and academic achievement). Lots of PPs seem offended by this but I’m telling you what I see. Same with how long they’re in after care, but I suspect that will get even more outrage (and to be fair, it’s a good correlation but not nearly as strong a correlation as the snacks).

Yeah let’s shit all over parents who have to work. That will show everyone just how caring you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a kindergarten teacher and there’s almost a 100% correlation between quality of snacks and quality of the kid (behavior and academic achievement). Lots of PPs seem offended by this but I’m telling you what I see. Same with how long they’re in after care, but I suspect that will get even more outrage (and to be fair, it’s a good correlation but not nearly as strong a correlation as the snacks).

I didn't eat snacks at all as a kindergartner. Is that the reason I made it to the Ivy League?

My guess is yes. The snack culture is so out of control. When kids are hungry they'll eat nutritious food because they're desperate to eat anything.

I snacked on Little Debbie’s and had Spaghettio’s for dinner? Is that the reason I only made it to the Ivy League?

What did you snack on to end up as a kindergarten teacher?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get back to me when you can fix the following:

- Nut bans in schools
- Inability to refrigerate snacks (we aren't even allows to send snacks in an insulated bag -- lunch, yes, but snacks have to be separate and in a disposable container or a clear plastic reusable bag)
- What to do when I send a healthy snack in and my kid won't eat it because all the other kids have crackers or chips and so that's all she wants

I tried healthy snacks for a long time but they just came home uneaten and my kid complained. I gave up, now I send in bags of teddy grahams or animal crackers. It's not what I want but she actually eats them and it takes the edge off until lunch.

I don't control the school environment and have to work within what it offers. The environment isn't conducive to healthy snacks.

I have never more wholeheartedly agreed with a post before!

Yeah, the food allergy kids are the reason your kids eat cr*p!!!

Grow up. Tell your kid they can eat what you send or wait until lunch.

Nut bans don’t actually keep kids with nut allergies safer.

Which what this thread is about. People are just making excuses. Start your own thread if you want to discuss food allergy safety and school policies.

Making excuses for what? I’ll feed my kids whatever I damn well please, and the opinions of their functionally illiterate kindergarten teachers don’t matter.

[Anonymous]

Parents really can’t find a middle ground between a salad and a pack of Oreos? That’s sad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get back to me when you can fix the following:

- Nut bans in schools
- Inability to refrigerate snacks (we aren't even allows to send snacks in an insulated bag -- lunch, yes, but snacks have to be separate and in a disposable container or a clear plastic reusable bag)
- What to do when I send a healthy snack in and my kid won't eat it because all the other kids have crackers or chips and so that's all she wants

I tried healthy snacks for a long time but they just came home uneaten and my kid complained. I gave up, now I send in bags of teddy grahams or animal crackers. It's not what I want but she actually eats them and it takes the edge off until lunch.

I don't control the school environment and have to work within what it offers. The environment isn't conducive to healthy snacks.

I have never more wholeheartedly agreed with a post before!

Yeah, the food allergy kids are the reason your kids eat cr*p!!!

Grow up. Tell your kid they can eat what you send or wait until lunch.

Nut bans don’t actually keep kids with nut allergies safer.

Which what this thread is about. People are just making excuses. Start your own thread if you want to discuss food allergy safety and school policies.

Making excuses for what? I’ll feed my kids whatever I damn well please, and the opinions of their functionally illiterate kindergarten teachers don’t matter.

Read the thread before calling your kids' kindergarten teachers functionally illiterate. Some parent said bc of nut bans, peer pressure, and lack of refrigeration they can't send healthy snacks. Those sound like lame excuses to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get back to me when you can fix the following:

- Nut bans in schools
- Inability to refrigerate snacks (we aren't even allows to send snacks in an insulated bag -- lunch, yes, but snacks have to be separate and in a disposable container or a clear plastic reusable bag)
- What to do when I send a healthy snack in and my kid won't eat it because all the other kids have crackers or chips and so that's all she wants

I tried healthy snacks for a long time but they just came home uneaten and my kid complained. I gave up, now I send in bags of teddy grahams or animal crackers. It's not what I want but she actually eats them and it takes the edge off until lunch.

I don't control the school environment and have to work within what it offers. The environment isn't conducive to healthy snacks.

I have never more wholeheartedly agreed with a post before!

Yeah, the food allergy kids are the reason your kids eat cr*p!!!

Grow up. Tell your kid they can eat what you send or wait until lunch.

Nut bans don’t actually keep kids with nut allergies safer.

Which what this thread is about. People are just making excuses. Start your own thread if you want to discuss food allergy safety and school policies.

Making excuses for what? I’ll feed my kids whatever I damn well please, and the opinions of their functionally illiterate kindergarten teachers don’t matter.

Read the thread before calling your kids' kindergarten teachers functionally illiterate. Some parent said bc of nut bans, peer pressure, and lack of refrigeration they can't send healthy snacks. Those sound like lame excuses to me.

And who exactly are you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a kindergarten teacher and there’s almost a 100% correlation between quality of snacks and quality of the kid (behavior and academic achievement). Lots of PPs seem offended by this but I’m telling you what I see. Same with how long they’re in after care, but I suspect that will get even more outrage (and to be fair, it’s a good correlation but not nearly as strong a correlation as the snacks).

Define quality of snacks for a kindergartner.

Greek yogurt, baby belle cheese, a banana, veggies and hummus, veggies and guacamole, an apple, a small tortilla rolled up with ham and cheese. I’m no nutritionist but I see lots of good options and they don’t get thrown away. I think there are some good bars for kids too but don’t really inspect them. I see plenty of cheeze-its and Oreos too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get back to me when you can fix the following:

- Nut bans in schools
- Inability to refrigerate snacks (we aren't even allows to send snacks in an insulated bag -- lunch, yes, but snacks have to be separate and in a disposable container or a clear plastic reusable bag)
- What to do when I send a healthy snack in and my kid won't eat it because all the other kids have crackers or chips and so that's all she wants

I tried healthy snacks for a long time but they just came home uneaten and my kid complained. I gave up, now I send in bags of teddy grahams or animal crackers. It's not what I want but she actually eats them and it takes the edge off until lunch.

I don't control the school environment and have to work within what it offers. The environment isn't conducive to healthy snacks.

I have never more wholeheartedly agreed with a post before!

Yeah, the food allergy kids are the reason your kids eat cr*p!!!

Grow up. Tell your kid they can eat what you send or wait until lunch.

Nut bans don’t actually keep kids with nut allergies safer.

Which what this thread is about. People are just making excuses. Start your own thread if you want to discuss food allergy safety and school policies.

Making excuses for what? I’ll feed my kids whatever I damn well please, and the opinions of their functionally illiterate kindergarten teachers don’t matter.

Read the thread before calling your kids' kindergarten teachers functionally illiterate. Some parent said bc of nut bans, peer pressure, and lack of refrigeration they can't send healthy snacks. Those sound like lame excuses to me.

And who exactly are you?

Someone who is adult enough to tell my kids that just because someone at their table brings cupcakes and chocolate milk every day doesn't mean that I'm sending it too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get back to me when you can fix the following:

- Nut bans in schools
- Inability to refrigerate snacks (we aren't even allows to send snacks in an insulated bag -- lunch, yes, but snacks have to be separate and in a disposable container or a clear plastic reusable bag)
- What to do when I send a healthy snack in and my kid won't eat it because all the other kids have crackers or chips and so that's all she wants

I tried healthy snacks for a long time but they just came home uneaten and my kid complained. I gave up, now I send in bags of teddy grahams or animal crackers. It's not what I want but she actually eats them and it takes the edge off until lunch.

I don't control the school environment and have to work within what it offers. The environment isn't conducive to healthy snacks.

I have never more wholeheartedly agreed with a post before!

Yeah, the food allergy kids are the reason your kids eat cr*p!!!

Grow up. Tell your kid they can eat what you send or wait until lunch.

Nut bans don’t actually keep kids with nut allergies safer.

Which what this thread is about. People are just making excuses. Start your own thread if you want to discuss food allergy safety and school policies.

Making excuses for what? I’ll feed my kids whatever I damn well please, and the opinions of their functionally illiterate kindergarten teachers don’t matter.

Read the thread before calling your kids' kindergarten teachers functionally illiterate. Some parent said bc of nut bans, peer pressure, and lack of refrigeration they can't send healthy snacks. Those sound like lame excuses to me.

And who exactly are you?

Someone who is adult enough to tell my kids that just because someone at their table brings cupcakes and chocolate milk every day doesn't mean that I'm sending it too.

But not adult enough to decide what to send your kids without input and peer pressure from randos on the interwebs? I’d offer you a cookie, but I’m sure you’d (pretend) to prefer a celery stalk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you propose that parents force their kids to eat healthier food while at school?

Parents can pack healthy snacks (I did for years) but if the kids don't eat them (which also happened for years), you are left with hungry kids. So parents pack food that they know their kids will eat, so the kids eat.

+1 million

I have packed all kinds of nice food for my kid. Including non-raw sushi rolls, which he requested. If he’s not feeling it, he just won’t eat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do you propose that parents force their kids to eat healthier food while at school?

Parents can pack healthy snacks (I did for years) but if the kids don't eat them (which also happened for years), you are left with hungry kids. So parents pack food that they know their kids will eat, so the kids eat.

+1 million

I have packed all kinds of nice food for my kid. Including non-raw sushi rolls, which he requested. If he’s not feeling it, he just won’t eat.

And that's ok.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do you propose that parents force their kids to eat healthier food while at school?

Parents can pack healthy snacks (I did for years) but if the kids don't eat them (which also happened for years), you are left with hungry kids. So parents pack food that they know their kids will eat, so the kids eat.

+1 million

I have packed all kinds of nice food for my kid. Including non-raw sushi rolls, which he requested. If he’s not feeling it, he just won’t eat.

Hmm. Weird how the rest of the class seems just fine with their strawberries and cucumbers and babybels. It’s not cookies or starve. Nice try though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get back to me when you can fix the following:

- Nut bans in schools
- Inability to refrigerate snacks (we aren't even allows to send snacks in an insulated bag -- lunch, yes, but snacks have to be separate and in a disposable container or a clear plastic reusable bag)
- What to do when I send a healthy snack in and my kid won't eat it because all the other kids have crackers or chips and so that's all she wants

I tried healthy snacks for a long time but they just came home uneaten and my kid complained. I gave up, now I send in bags of teddy grahams or animal crackers. It's not what I want but she actually eats them and it takes the edge off until lunch.

I don't control the school environment and have to work within what it offers. The environment isn't conducive to healthy snacks.

I have never more wholeheartedly agreed with a post before!

Yeah, the food allergy kids are the reason your kids eat cr*p!!!

Grow up. Tell your kid they can eat what you send or wait until lunch.

Nut bans don’t actually keep kids with nut allergies safer.

Which what this thread is about. People are just making excuses. Start your own thread if you want to discuss food allergy safety and school policies.

Making excuses for what? I’ll feed my kids whatever I damn well please, and the opinions of their functionally illiterate kindergarten teachers don’t matter.

Read the thread before calling your kids' kindergarten teachers functionally illiterate. Some parent said bc of nut bans, peer pressure, and lack of refrigeration they can't send healthy snacks. Those sound like lame excuses to me.

And who exactly are you?

Someone who is adult enough to tell my kids that just because someone at their table brings cupcakes and chocolate milk every day doesn't mean that I'm sending it too.

But not adult enough to decide what to send your kids without input and peer pressure from randos on the interwebs? I’d offer you a cookie, but I’m sure you’d (pretend) to prefer a celery stalk.

Nobody wants your nasty cookies. You're probably the person who would say to your teenager "I would really you rather just drink at home."

[Anonymous]

I send my kid heathy food to school, but they get fed a bunch of garbage at school. Free (junk) food for all. Yea. You can’t win

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a kindergarten teacher and there’s almost a 100% correlation between quality of snacks and quality of the kid (behavior and academic achievement). Lots of PPs seem offended by this but I’m telling you what I see. Same with how long they’re in after care, but I suspect that will get even more outrage (and to be fair, it’s a good correlation but not nearly as strong a correlation as the snacks).

Define quality of snacks for a kindergartner.

Greek yogurt, baby belle cheese, a banana, veggies and hummus, veggies and guacamole, an apple, a small tortilla rolled up with ham and cheese. I’m no nutritionist but I see lots of good options and they don’t get thrown away. I think there are some good bars for kids too but don’t really inspect them. I see plenty of cheeze-its and Oreos too.

+1. Also string cheese, popcorn, no sugar added banana or apple chips, raisins, fruit sauce pouches, or even boxed cereal like Cheerios. Some graham crackers are even very low in sugar, which can be good for kids who feel like they just need a cookie. You just have to read all the labels to find the best choices.