Your snowflake doesn't need a snack.
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| My child has been in two elementary schools in fcps over the last 4 years and every year they have snack time. You send in a snack for your child, or if you don't want them to have a snack, you don't send it. But then the no snack kids convince the snack kids to share with them. |
Anonymous
Please educate yourself about basic human physiology. First, ability to concentrate isn't an emotion. Second, difficulty with concentration, impulse control and emotional regulation are completely normal, predictable consequences of going too long without eating (and young kids, due to basic differences in physiology, often need to eat more frequently than adults do). What you do in your house is your business, but please keep your eating disorder away from my children and their education. |
Anonymous
We have a super strict no sharing policy at our school due to allergies. That said we are supposed to pack a snack because my 3 rd grade child doesn't eat till 12:40 and my 4 th grade child at 1:00. Since they eat around 7:15-30 I think that's perfectly fine. |
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I find people in general annoying.  These particular people are constantly, erm, "looking for things to improve" is probably a polite way to word it. I have to be "nice" now, lest people here think my sense of snark represents actual angst. Truth be told, I give no actual fscks. My kid won't suffer if class gets interrupted for snack time, nor will my snowflake (which is a no-no word, or so I'm told by someone who thinks "twat" is fair play  ) face undue hardship if they're forced to wait until after school to eat more. There are some privilege issues that irritate me, esp. as we're at a high-FARMS school, so "just have everyone bring an organic cheese stick (and a way to keep it cold) and some organic fruit!" is a bit rich. And the "kids do better if they're not hungry" folks, at least those on the listserv, would be horrified if I sent my kid with some Skittles or a Ring Ding (yes!!!) for a quick carbohydrate boost.  There are some "Jaysus, don't we already ask enough of our teachers?!" issues, too. Were I to give enough of a damn to post directly, that would be my main point. But ultimately, teachers are adults who can speak for themselves and I don't really care enough either way to get involved. I just thought DCUM might, and you didn't disappoint!
Personally, I've sent my kid with a snack for after school if it's been one of those days or a growth spurt or they've been especially "hangry" of late. But I would never tell my kid to ask to interrupt or leave class to go eat. I definitely wouldn't rally the troops on a school-wide listserv about it. It's not at all a "we must be rail thin" thing, at least, not from me. More an opportunity to understand that life gets uncomfortable sometimes, and this is an easy way to start teaching kids how to handle that concept w/o actual risk. I recognize I'm in the minority when it comes to seeing that as a valuable lesson; I know plenty of adults who can't handle being uncomfortable! If you're unmanageably hangry if you don't eat every 4 hours, maybe you should get that checked. I mean, do you wake your kids for night feeds, too? |
Anonymous
| Boy, OP, I think you sound pretty hangry yourself. Or like your just a shit stirrer and really proud of it. I'm sorry that's your life. Be well. |
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Blizzard warning. |
Anonymous
| My kid's elementary school started at 8:50 and in first grade, they ate lunch at 10:45. By around 2:30, most of them were legitimately hungry and distracted. I think it depends on the circumstances. |
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I think you have me confused with plastic knife guy. |
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In our elementary school, kids had to eat at odd times because there wasn't enough cafeteria space to feed them all at actual lunch time. |
Anonymous
Feed her a higher protein lunch. My kid is in K. Lunch at 10:30 dismissal at 2:30. Home by three, snack (usually what he didn't eat from lunch) then homework then a brief nap. He is so busy socializing he doesn't eat much some days. He'll learn eventually. No snack is necessary. |
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| My 8 year old eats breakfast at 7:30 am. Lunch for his age group is 1:25 pm. They allow a 5 minute snack. I eat breakfast with my son, I'm hungry at 11:30, I could never make it until 1:30. |
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Seriously. And given you sign in (and the id you've chosen) I am going with the latter. |
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Our children get an afternoon snack. They have since K and she is in older elementary now. It's a non-issue. Seamless.
Frankly, many kids eat constantly b/c they are indeed hungry. Mine does (though you wouldn't know it to look at her). She gets extremely "hangry" when she can't eat. I don't see what the damn deal is. Give the snacks. JYou revel in your 20 mile walks to school in the snow with no boots. In the meantime, my kid will be enjoying her granola bar and learning more w/o having being distracted by hunger. |
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For YOUR SON. Just to clarify that you don't speak for everyone's child. |
Anonymous
| A 5 year old who leaves home at 6:45 and gets home at 3 could certainly use an afternoon snack, especially when lunch is at 10:30 a.m. |