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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Remind once then just have them live eight he consequences. My kid went out to the bus without a hat and gloves once. Doesn't forget now. If they don't hang up their towel, they don't get a clean towel. My kid likes home lunch, I'm not washing lunch boxes in the am. So if she doesn't take it out and bring to sink, she's buying lunch at school. 
9 is a great age to have these tasks mostly their responsibility with a few reminders. [/quote]

Yes, I knowingly let him leave without a lunch once last year. School (public) called me and demanded I come drop it off. Teacher mentioned it at conference time too. [/quote]

Did your kid have money for lunch or did you expect him to go hungry?  The latter isn't ok and you should have been called.  [/quote]

NP. What happened to natural consequences? Learning from experience? Personally, if my kid older than first or second grade forgets something and it isn't literally critical to health & safety, they can do without on that day and hopefully realize the importance of bringing their stuff in the future. Absent a medical condition, the worst thing that happens if a kid goes without lunch one day is.... they're hungry, they realize they don't like not having lunch, and in the future they care more about remembering their lunch. I find it ridiculous that the school interfered if it hadn't become a disruptive pattern.[/quote]

They're hungry, and they disrupt the entire class.  The other kids aren't responsible for enduring the natural consequences for your kid.

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