Eat lunch with your kid at school EVERY DAY

[Anonymous]

I can NOT believe this is allowed. What a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

Before Covid, we had multiple parents eat breakfast and lunch with their kids. They would often feed them using spoons and forks. It's a cultural thing. It became an issue when they would give them their phones while feeding them.

[Anonymous]

Considering this post is 6 years old pre covid lots of schools allowed this. Not sure why someone felt the need to bump it up. The trolls are out at night.

[Anonymous]

A friend once told me that her daycare let parents just come in and out of the room at any time they wanted throughout the day. I was like, thanks for telling me so I can avoid that place. Unscreened random adults with unfettered access to my kid? Yeah no thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He probably was. Kids today are different than we were, when we were kids.

Mine aren't!! Mine have developmentally appropriate attachment bonds, which means they don't really want their parents around at school and they get embarrassed as they turn into teens - that's normal. You need parenting classes; they teach all about this. Smothering a kid leads to psychological damage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A friend once told me that her daycare let parents just come in and out of the room at any time they wanted throughout the day. I was like, thanks for telling me so I can avoid that place. Unscreened random adults with unfettered access to my kid? Yeah no thanks.

Unscreened random adults? They are the parents of the kids your kid is playing with! WTF?

[Anonymous]

This would be cool only for 5-6year olds. After that, once in a while until third grade. They need to be with their friends. Really, the school ought to stop parents from this suffocating and inappropriate behaviour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Before Covid, we had multiple parents eat breakfast and lunch with their kids. They would often feed them using spoons and forks. It's a cultural thing. It became an issue when they would give them their phones while feeding them.

Honestly this shouldn't be allowed. Part of going to school is learning cultural norms. Spoonfeed your kids at home, fine. But kids need to learn some independence at school.

[Anonymous]

My kids are at a parochial school and report that multiple kids moms (all the same ethnicity) come to school every day with a hot lunch for them and sit with them to make sure they eat it. The principal is too wimpy to crack down on this.

[Anonymous]

Oh come on all you PPs. You know this is totally not normal -- in that very very very few parents do this.

You know it's not good for your kids, even if -- in fact, particularly if - they are struggling socially at lunch. (Not because of embarrassment, but because they won't work at fixing the problem, which they should.)

You know it's disruptive to the other kids too. Adults -- stop intruding on kid time and kid places! It's like the adults that try to play games and lead activities on the playground. Let kids be at lunch. They have volunteers to help open containers.

The folks arguing with OP are being contrarians for the dopamine hit. If she asked if she should go have lunch with her 5th grader every day, everyone would be telling her no!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He probably was. Kids today are different than we were, when we were kids.

How, did bullying stop?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, I'm another parent and I don't want you there.

Yes, we know. You are the uninvolved parent who would never go to a lunch, open house or field trip. Its ok, we give your kid attention so they don't feel bad when you aren't there. We are the ones handling the tears when they come when you aren't there. We know your priorities.

Shouldn't you be watching The Price is Right?

[Anonymous]

I think its kinda nice for kids who are excluded and have to eat alone. Maybe teach your kids to be more inclusive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh come on all you PPs. You know this is totally not normal -- in that very very very few parents do this.

You know it's not good for your kids, even if -- in fact, particularly if - they are struggling socially at lunch. (Not because of embarrassment, but because they won't work at fixing the problem, which they should.)

You know it's disruptive to the other kids too. Adults -- stop intruding on kid time and kid places! It's like the adults that try to play games and lead activities on the playground. Let kids be at lunch. They have volunteers to help open containers.

The folks arguing with OP are being contrarians for the dopamine hit. If she asked if she should go have lunch with her 5th grader every day, everyone would be telling her no!

Be grateful your child isn't the one eating alone because other kids exclude them.

[Anonymous]

I had lunch with my son several times a week. He struggled socially and wouldn’t eat otherwise. He is 17 now and still has problems in school and doesn’t eat with other kids.