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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's going to be 39 degrees at lunch time today. I invite all of these "kids must be forced to eat outdoors because my family is part of the tiny minority that doesn't eat indoors at restaurants" nuts to please go outside for 1 hour today during lunch. Eat your lunch outside and then hang out outside afterwards too.

In 20 years, people are going to laugh so hard about the hysteria of these nutters wanting to force kids to eat outside in freezing cold weather.  They'll laugh even more too because COVID will still be here in 20 years.  In fact, when I tell people who don't have kids here about this, they're already laughing.[/quote]

My kid has realized the lunch monitors don't care if she sits for her entire "lunch period".  So she SLAMS her lunch while chatting with friends and then she gets extra recess time.  If anything, it's been AWESOME for her mental health to have a solid chunk of time outdoors in the middle of the day.  She does come home starving, but she is healthy and FINE.  Adults sit still the entire time.  My child is running around like a maniac with her friends.  Which is exactly what 7 year olds should be doing for a portion of every day.

I am open to indoor lunch.  But for my particular child, it is not an improvement.  I can concede that some kids are unhappy, and some may not have enough warm clothing to make it tolerable, and for that reason I hope they move indoors a bit more when it is really cold.  But my child?  Would eat outside in the blizzard and it would be the highlight of her day.[/quote]

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