Sending your kid over to my house after lunch...when your kid hasn't eaten lunch yet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you do this? Playdate at 2pm, kid shows up and hasn't eaten lunch yet. We ate at 12:30. This has happened with 2 friends recently. NOT a situation where the kids are neglected or can't afford food. I have to make a special lunch for the kid and then my kids watch him eat. Rude for the parents to do this and uncomfortable for everyone.

If this situation is uncomfortable for you, you are not a gracious host. It takes 90 seconds to make a sandwich. You feel put out by that? It probably takes a kid 5 minutes to eat a sandwich. Your kid doesn't know how to sit, chat, and sip a glass of water while someone else is eating?

I have been in the situation where a kid didn't eat lunch, didn't tell me, and then announced it to his parent picking him up that he had only eaten popcorn and candy since breakfast (I picked him up for a movie at 1:00 from his mom's house and his dad picked him up at our house at 4:00). I felt terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its embarrassing- but my kids would totally say this, even though I had fed them lunch. They aren't even really hungry- they are just curious what they will get in some one else's house.

This is funny! And I probably did this as a kid.

My 2.5 year old asks for a snack at every play date. I think she just likes the novelty of eating at someone else's house. Same reason she likes to use their potty.

[Anonymous]

Young kids are annoying. I could totally see mine saying they don’t want lunch at lunchtime, then get to a play date at 2pm and start whining they’re soooo hungry. It’s possible that this is the kid’s fault, not anything that the parent did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Young kids are annoying. I could totally see mine saying they don’t want lunch at lunchtime, then get to a play date at 2pm and start whining they’re soooo hungry. It’s possible that this is the kid’s fault, not anything that the parent did.

Agree. To the OP, quit judging.

[Anonymous]

OP, stop all the playdates. Can they use bathroom or you all used it at 12:30?
Kids like to snack, kids change their mind, kids don't know about the time. You need to be ready for lots of things with kids. Food is the least of your worries.

[Anonymous]

Maybe the kid slept in and had a very late breakfast. As in, around 11:30-noon. Some of us do that on the weekends, you know.

[Anonymous]

That’s rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its embarrassing- but my kids would totally say this, even though I had fed them lunch. They aren't even really hungry- they are just curious what they will get in some one else's house.

This is funny! And I probably did this as a kid.

My 2.5 year old asks for a snack at every play date. I think she just likes the novelty of eating at someone else's house. Same reason she likes to use their potty.

Do ÿou correct your kid? What a weird kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Young kids are annoying. I could totally see mine saying they don’t want lunch at lunchtime, then get to a play date at 2pm and start whining they’re soooo hungry. It’s possible that this is the kid’s fault, not anything that the parent did.

Agree. To the OP, quit judging.

This.

OP will deny it, but I bet her kid does the exact same thing at other people's houses.

[Anonymous]

This is so not a big deal at all. In the summer, my kids sleep in and may not eat breakfast until 10am. Maybe they are hungry at 2pm. I am a poor single parent and it is still not a big deal to make a kid a sandwich or something. They are your guest and you are the host. Act like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its embarrassing- but my kids would totally say this, even though I had fed them lunch. They aren't even really hungry- they are just curious what they will get in some one else's house.

Yep, my kid would get hungry around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, and ask me, loudly, in public "Are we having lunch today?" I learned that if I just said "We already had lunch." strangers would glare at me like I was some kind of liar who clearly didn't feed her kid, so I started saying "Remember about two hours ago when I gave you that grilled cheese sandwich, with soup, apple slices and baby carrots? That was lunch. If you're hungry now we could have a snack, would you like a snack?"

[Anonymous]

From OP - I Always feed the kid and am a good host. Just curious why you wouldn’t feed your kid lunch before a 2pm play date. I find it’s neglectful on your part and rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its embarrassing- but my kids would totally say this, even though I had fed them lunch. They aren't even really hungry- they are just curious what they will get in some one else's house.

Yep, my kid would get hungry around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, and ask me, loudly, in public "Are we having lunch today?" I learned that if I just said "We already had lunch." strangers would glare at me like I was some kind of liar who clearly didn't feed her kid, so I started saying "Remember about two hours ago when I gave you that grilled cheese sandwich, with soup, apple slices and baby carrots? That was lunch. If you're hungry now we could have a snack, would you like a snack?"

There’s no need to say all that for the benefit of some strangers, truly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's odd to send your kid on a playdate hungry.

No one does that. Aren’t you reading?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's odd to send your kid on a playdate hungry.

No one does that. Aren’t you reading?

Yes people do that.