10:30 AM lunch

[Anonymous]

Anyone's kids have a 10:30 AM lunch period? How did that work out? We're kids super hungry by the time school let out.

[Anonymous]

Yes and yes. My kids ate 4 meals a day then. Light breakfast, school lunch, heavy snack (usually leftovers from dinner the night before), and a light and late dinner. With sports practices it actually worked out pretty well. My picky eater son learned to eat anything he was so hungry.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Breakfast is at 6. Definitely hungry for lunch at 10:30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Breakfast is at 6. Definitely hungry for lunch at 10:30.

6 am!!!!

[Anonymous]

Our overcrowded elementary school had a few years of this until they decided to have Kindergarten lunch in classrooms, since those were the bigger rooms. That way the first lunch was at 11am in the cafeteria, and the K had lunch at around the same time in their rooms, and from 11 to 1:30 the cafeteria was in continuous use all the way to 5th grade.

Please suggest this, OP. If it doesn't work out, insist that kids have a snack break in the afternoon.

[Anonymous]

At our school my kids had classes where the teachers would let them eat. I think their lunch was as late as 230 one year.

[Anonymous]

They'll live.

[Anonymous]

Yes and we were in mcps. Usually they took a snack and had s snack in the afternoon in the classroom. Teachers know a 1030 lunch isn’t ideal. Some kids at our school had a 130 lunch. They had a snack in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Mine did twice in elementary and then again in middle school. It worked out well. He was never that hungry in the morning and it was the perfect time to eat.

He was hungry after school no matter what time he ate lunch.

[Anonymous]

^and ate snacks either officially at times in elementary or unofficially as he got older when he got hungry, like when classes were changing.

[Anonymous]

Somehow I survived 7th grade in 1979 with a 10:40am lunch. No snack. Your kid will survive as well.

We’ve now trained kids to think they need to eat all day. They don’t.

[Anonymous]

Yes and yes. Expect them to be hungry at those same times on the weekend too. I kept after school snacks ready to grab and eat, does interfere with dinner somewhat.

[Anonymous]

This isn't new or unusual. My husband and I both ate that early in school 20 years ago, in different states.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Somehow I survived 7th grade in 1979 with a 10:40am lunch. No snack. Your kid will survive as well.

We’ve now trained kids to think they need to eat all day. They don’t.

I bet you came home from school at 3pm. Often now, kids are at school in aftercare until 6pm. So while they may get some crackers as a snack in after care, having 6-7 hours between real meals IS something to consider for a young kid.

But good for you for wanting everything to stay just like it was in 1979 when women needed their husband's to sign their credit card applications.

[Anonymous]

Yes, last year. It was awful. Dc would not eat at 10:30 bc not hungry. A 5 min snack was allowed with kid’s alternately wearing masks so DC couldn’t get much to eat. By 4 pm, DC was hangry, spent, and starving. It was absolutely awful all last year.