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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] My daughter also says this girl usually has very little food brought to school, doesn’t have her own bottle or lunch bag and always begs from others.  
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I would (1)stop putting apple juice in my child's water bottle, (2)send in a water bottle for my daughter labeled with her name and a water bottle for the other child labeled with the other child's name, and (3)either casually send in extra food with my daughter to make sure this other child had food to eat or talk with the teachers about what my child had observed and offer to provide additional snacks for any child who doesn't have any/provide a "scholarship" lunch account so that a child without a lunch could get lunch.

The first one I would do simply because I don't like my child drinking juice, I feel it has little nutritional value, and I want my child to be used to drinking water as her primary beverage.
The second I have done a few times because kids lose things and I understand parents don't always want to replace them. At the same time, I don't want my child to share her water bottle and I also don't want another child to go without.
The third I have done a couple times, but both times the situation drove my response. This also can require an additional level of extra money that not everyone has. Most of us can dig up another $5-$10 for a water bottle, but providing daily snacks/lunches for another child can be expensive.[/quote]

(2) is nice but I think if the parents won't pack lunch, they probably wont fill her bottle with water either. I have done (3) once but never again because I had received some backlash from the school that it should not be directed to one single child. (I was "unfortunately" a single dad, and the child was a girl) The story is similar too as tHis girl also stole food from my son and I wanted him to continue getting his nutrition. She also used his waterbottle (despite him saying no) and his is a camelbak so it was meant to be chewed on anyway. :) But he didn't get sick.[/quote]

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