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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, ask the program, but as a director of a childcare program I would encourage you to send a spoon in and not worry - perhaps you put a bit less sauce on the pasta, but the pan fried dumplings, etc?

Those are fine - just don't be worried that he will hold those with his hands and bite into them.  We have a 2 year old who eats REALLY LONG NOODLES with her hands. 
 Eventually she'll eat with a spoon and fork, but not yet. 
 And that's fine, no problem!

The really hard foodto send is SOUP - that's really hard for them to eat at this point so I'd stay clear of that.

You do NOT need to adapt your cultural foods to the "kid food" that others do - if that's what he eats, that's what he eats.

Heat it up in the morning, put it in a thermos with a wide mouth, and it will be the right temperature when it's opened at lunch, and he can eat it out of the wide mouthed thermos.

And if you send yogurt, know that your child will use a spoon to eat it.

So, start working on having your child feed himself completely at home - he'll use his hands more, but give him a small child sized spoon and fork and he'll start to learn to use it.  Or child-sized (with the clip on the end) chopsticks - we have several children who bring those in sometimes. [/quote]

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