Parents - your kids are bringing garbage snacks to school

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Anonymous wrote:You can tell me what to feed my kid when all the kids are reading on grade level. Until then, shut your mouth and do your actual job rather than trying to do mine.

Somebody has to do it since you aren’t.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are not watching out for this you should be.

On a daily basis I have kids bringing for snack (not dessert):

Packaged muffins, cookies, brownies, Doritos, cheetos. And the quantities they are bringing are astounding too.

This is terrible brain food. It makes them sleepy, unfocused and it’s terrible for their health too!

Thanks, Karen, we'll handle it from here.

Good luck with the T2 diabetes!

I have T2 diabetes. It's not a big deal.

Your pancreas disagrees.

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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.

Don’t buy garbage and they can’t eat garbage. This is not rocket science.

There is a direct correlation between the students that are focused and engaged and the students bringing healthy snacks. Yes I am a teacher (OP.)

What do you consider healthy? What are you seeing kids bring in that is so much better?

I agree that the ones listed are not healthy, but processed crackers are not that healthy either, and that's what seemed to be encouraged in my kids' classes. Fresh foods were not encouraged because of the mess.

Veggies, fruits, plain yogurt or applesauce, good cheese, plain pretzels or popcorn, low sugar granola.

I have kids literally brining packages of Oreos and chips ahoy for their “snack.”

Are you their teacher?

I honestly rolled my eyes at teachers like you when my son was in ES. It's not your job to police what they eat, but if you feel THIS strongly about it, talk to their parents. We have nothing to do with those kids.

Yes, I am a teacher.

Yes, I am the food police.

Yes, I will judge you if you send your kid to school with sh*t to eat.

If you're really a teacher, then you already know kids like this have no future anyway. Please focus on those kids who will actually be worth something as adults. They will already be eating healthy.

Lady, your kid is the one making trades in the lunch room for a two pack of oreos. Don't pull a muscle patting yourself on the back.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are not watching out for this you should be.

On a daily basis I have kids bringing for snack (not dessert):

Packaged muffins, cookies, brownies, Doritos, cheetos. And the quantities they are bringing are astounding too.

This is terrible brain food. It makes them sleepy, unfocused and it’s terrible for their health too!

Thanks, Karen, we'll handle it from here.

Good luck with the T2 diabetes!

I have T2 diabetes. It's not a big deal.

Your pancreas disagrees.

As do most people who have diabetes and their doctors.

But they’d rather stick it to a “Karen” than actually admit they are bad, lazy parents raising sugar-addicted iPad kids with no attention spans. I guess it’s a good thing AI will be able to do their jobs instead of them!

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Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh I remember that age. I used to pack a very healthy lunch for my kid (protein, rice, veg, no sugar). Then I got an email from the teacher telling me not to pack Brussels sprouts anymore because my son and some other boys were throwing them at each other's heads because they looked like little balls.

I generally think that unless you're paying for the food that someone else is eating, you have no business commenting on it.

There's a wide range of foods between cold brussels sprouts and oreos for snack. School lunch was the same in the 80s and 90s as it is now - nor did we have coolers or microwaves back then to use. But our parents sent us ants on a log, or apples cut up (yes they got a little brown - my mom put lemon on but that tasted weird too), orange slices, pretzel sticks, goldfish, maybe a homemade baked good on a good day. It is crazy when I join my kids at lunch. So many of the kids eat exclusively prepackaged junk - E.g. Capri Sun, Twix Yogurt, Cheetos, and Chips A Hoy -as the whole lunch. Then a few kids have twee bento boxes (hey, good for those moms). The immigrant kids have delicious looking real food for lunch. Then you still have the dwindling PBJ/cheese stick/apple/one cookie crowd.

I do see on here frequent complaints about no nuts. We have lived in multiple states and never had a nut ban in our kids' schools, but we do not live in the DMV. That would be definitely be tough.

Not sure where you grew up, but in the 90s, my classmates in an upper class suburb of Massachusetts were bringing the same snacks that OP is complaining about. It’s not a new problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Ahhhh I remember that age. I used to pack a very healthy lunch for my kid (protein, rice, veg, no sugar). Then I got an email from the teacher telling me not to pack Brussels sprouts anymore because my son and some other boys were throwing them at each other's heads because they looked like little balls.

I generally think that unless you're paying for the food that someone else is eating, you have no business commenting on it.

There's a wide range of foods between cold brussels sprouts and oreos for snack. School lunch was the same in the 80s and 90s as it is now - nor did we have coolers or microwaves back then to use. But our parents sent us ants on a log, or apples cut up (yes they got a little brown - my mom put lemon on but that tasted weird too), orange slices, pretzel sticks, goldfish, maybe a homemade baked good on a good day. It is crazy when I join my kids at lunch. So many of the kids eat exclusively prepackaged junk - E.g. Capri Sun, Twix Yogurt, Cheetos, and Chips A Hoy -as the whole lunch. Then a few kids have twee bento boxes (hey, good for those moms). The immigrant kids have delicious looking real food for lunch. Then you still have the dwindling PBJ/cheese stick/apple/one cookie crowd.

I do see on here frequent complaints about no nuts. We have lived in multiple states and never had a nut ban in our kids' schools, but we do not live in the DMV. That would be definitely be tough.

Not sure where you grew up, but in the 90s, my classmates in an upper class suburb of Massachusetts were bringing the same snacks that OP is complaining about. It’s not a new problem.

OP here. It may not be new, but I do feel like the number of students doing it is higher and the volume of food is more. I feel like mothers back then had more desire to appear motherly and wouldn’t want to look bad in front of teachers or other parents. I’ve had kids bring sealed boxes or Girl Scout cookies to school! But the worst is all the cookies already packaged and portioned. You know parents buy giant cases at Costco and just leave them out for the kids to eat at will at home. I don’t believe for one second kids eat like this at school and eat cucumbers and hummus at home.

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Anonymous wrote:You can tell me what to feed my kid when all the kids are reading on grade level. Until then, shut your mouth and do your actual job rather than trying to do mine.

Somebody has to do it since you aren’t.

Of course you want to blame the Oreos rather than face the fact that you are an inept teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are not watching out for this you should be.

On a daily basis I have kids bringing for snack (not dessert):

Packaged muffins, cookies, brownies, Doritos, cheetos. And the quantities they are bringing are astounding too.

This is terrible brain food. It makes them sleepy, unfocused and it’s terrible for their health too!

Thanks, Karen, we'll handle it from here.

Good luck with the T2 diabetes!

I have T2 diabetes. It's not a big deal.

Your pancreas disagrees.

As do most people who have diabetes and their doctors.

But they’d rather stick it to a “Karen” than actually admit they are bad, lazy parents raising sugar-addicted iPad kids with no attention spans. I guess it’s a good thing AI will be able to do their jobs instead of them!

I know parents like you. They’re raising judgmental, mean spirited little shits who are frankly not very pleasant to be around.

I’d rather my kid eat Skittles and play Roblox than be an a-hole, but you do you, Mom.

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Listen, my kids are American. They've been slamming mountain dew from before they had teeth and are going to do that for the rest of their lives. Chicken nuggets and Big Macs are a way of life Karen.

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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!

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A few people upthread mentioned just wanting their kids to eat SOMETHING at snack. I totally understand how frustrating it is when kids don't eat what you send. Food waste is the worst.

I portion out a crunchy snack (usually organic popcorn, or some thing from Annie's). For my kids lunchbox, I always include 2 different fresh things (could be 2 fruits, or 2 vegetables, or a fruit and a veg). If it comes home uneaten, I rinse it off, put it in the colander, and it appears at the dinner table as a side. It always gets eaten by that point, and nobody in my house as had food poisoning.

I know this wouldn't work for all kids, but I got this idea from a neighbor, and it's been successful in our house. If my kid doesn't eat as much as the kids bringing Oreos, oh well. They're not starving.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are not watching out for this you should be.

On a daily basis I have kids bringing for snack (not dessert):

Packaged muffins, cookies, brownies, Doritos, cheetos. And the quantities they are bringing are astounding too.

This is terrible brain food. It makes them sleepy, unfocused and it’s terrible for their health too!

Thanks, Karen, we'll handle it from here.

Good luck with the T2 diabetes!

I have T2 diabetes. It's not a big deal.

Your pancreas disagrees.

As do most people who have diabetes and their doctors.

But they’d rather stick it to a “Karen” than actually admit they are bad, lazy parents raising sugar-addicted iPad kids with no attention spans. I guess it’s a good thing AI will be able to do their jobs instead of them!

I know parents like you. They’re raising judgmental, mean spirited little shits who are frankly not very pleasant to be around.

I’d rather my kid eat Skittles and play Roblox than be an a-hole, but you do you, Mom.

Amen. If I thought I was going to raise a kid like OP, I'd have had an abortion.

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I don't know how people are affording these snacks anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Food allergy Karen’s are the wirst

People who can't spell or punctuate while lambasting others are the worst.