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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It’s also setting an example to the other children at the table, the importance of eating healthy first & desert last.[/b] Children watch and learn from each other and the teacher is considering the whole classroom is her direction.

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Except this is the exact opposite of what children should learn. It is teaching that the other food is less rewarding and delicious, and the cookie is the "reward" for getting through the bad stuff.

This is what happens when teachers don't stay in their lane. Tell her you've consulted with a dietician and you do not want her policing any amount or order in which your child eats her lunch. Less work for her, and less harmful to everyone.[/quote]

Yes this is one reason why I would address it. Teaching desert should be last as some kind of reward  is actually the exact opposite of what evidence based research shows is best for children to develop healthy eating habits.

I disagree that it adds to the burden of the teacher - less policing = less burden.

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People eat dessert last out of custom and because dessert can be savored when most of the appetite is full from the main course.  Do you go out to a restaurant with friends and order cake before your pasta?  [/quote]

Not typically, but I do eat "dessert food" if I want it without forcing myself to eat other food first. I eat the food I am hungry for. Usually I am hungry for nondessert foods and I enjoy them a lot, probably because as a child I had equal access to dessert and nondessert foods. I don't think of it as "treating" myself nor do I make a show of "how bad" I am when I eat it.

I do, however, hate eating dessert in front of other women, because inevitably they make these kinds of comments, and it's so tedious and boring to constantly be subjected to their eating disordered thinking.[/quote]

Well if everyone else eats a certain way and you eat your own way, it's you who is disordered. Can you not differentiate between how you eat in your own home and how you eat around others? OP's child is learning to eat around others. There are other things she's going to come to realize are different out of the house than at home. This is life.[/quote]

Uh. Look at the obesity statistics in this country before you say someone should eat like “everyone else”[/quote]

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