Eat lunch with your kid at school EVERY DAY

[Anonymous]

You know how you can go and have lunch with your kids at school and it's very good emotional support for little ones.. well, I found an acquaintance of mine went to her son's school EVERY DAY (!) for the first months and 3 times of the week (!) for the rest of the year for his first 6(!!!) grades.

It just blew my mind.

She says he was fine with it.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

This was only 3-4 years ago. He's now a teenager and rebelling.

[Anonymous]

I can only imagine the relentless mocking from his peers that this poor kid had to endure. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the school. Ours will not allow it.

[Anonymous]

Most teens rebel with or without mom at lunch. There are a lot of parenting things to judge this one is very meh. Like who cares. That mom prob helped your kid open his bottles water or tie his shoes before he went to recess. One more adult in the lunch room is never a bad thing.

[Anonymous]

I did it once in K and almost died. The noise was crazy. I did do it again but only a couple of times each grade. After the first time i was more mentally prepared.

[Anonymous]

Wow. I'm not surprised he's rebelling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

This was only 3-4 years ago. He's now a teenager and rebelling.

Yep. Inevitable.

[Anonymous]

Hmmm, I can't imagine any 5th-6th grader who would want their mom coming to lunch at school with them multiple times a week. Or any time at all actually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmm, I can't imagine any 5th-6th grader who would want their mom coming to lunch at school with them multiple times a week. Or any time at all actually.

Even my 4th grader didn't care about me coming to lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: That mom prob helped your kid open his bottles water or tie his shoes before he went to recess.

In 6th grade?

[Anonymous]

My son would have been happy about it, since he had difficulty connecting socially in elementary, but I never did it - couldn’t handle the noise. He is now a calm, studious, high schooler.

Come to think of it, my elementary aged DD would like it too. Still not doing it.

You people really must understand that not everyone thinks in the same way.

[Anonymous]

Huh. As the teacher I would have heavily discouraged that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My son would have been happy about it, since he had difficulty connecting socially in elementary, but I never did it - couldn’t handle the noise. He is now a calm, studious, high schooler.

Come to think of it, my elementary aged DD would like it too. Still not doing it.

You people really must understand that not everyone thinks in the same way.

I can't imagine kids being happy about it, sorry. I imagine the embarrassment.