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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some parents appreciate that their child learns the importance of eating their main food first instead of those chocolate kisses sent in. Problem would be solved if you didn’t pack sweets in the first place. Maybe the parent should learn what a healthy lunch consists of and that their child will eat those red peppers and humus by watching their classmates eating healthy too and won’t even miss a “dessert”.[/quote]

Uh, excuse me, it's [i]baked oatmeal.[/i]

All high quality people understand that the baking process makes the sugars disappear. Humph. [/quote]

If her DD came in with a thermos of plain oatmeal, with cinnamon and sliced bananas on top, none of you would be screaming “omg don’t send cookies”. Those exact same ingredients put in the oven are suddenly an Oreo? This is why parents and not teachers decide what their children should eat. [/quote]

You are talking about preschoolers eating in groups. They are not individually conducting nutritional analysis with mass spectrometers. They are looking at what other children are eating and pitching fits if they have to wait for their "cookies." You could try to argue that it's effing "backed oatmeal," but when you are talking about tiny children, perception is at least as important about reality.

If you want to turn lunch into a digression on the RDAs of 2/3 of a biscuit, get a nanny. If you are poor enough that you need a group setting, don't expect a meticulously catered PhD presentation on nutrition. Have your kid wait for the "cookie," or send it "unbaked." [i]Because it's not as fun and tasty when it's not in cookie form, and that's the point -- the other kids are responding to fun and tasty, not nutritional analysis.[/i] Get with the program.[/quote]

Or send to a preschool where “fun and tasty” isn’t seen as some kind of special privilege given at the discretion of a teacher.  How Dickensian.[/quote]

Have you met a preschooler when you are trying to get them to eat a meal? How about when they are in a group, and with different lunches?  :lol: [/quote]

Yes. I have a preschooler with serious allergies. She eats something different from her classmates almost every day. The teachers are apparently superior beings because this has never once caused them to lose control of their classrooms. [/quote]

Because you can tell the other preschoolers that Larla will get very sick otherwise. Is that a lie you tell in other circumstances, or are you (like most people) trying not to lie to children? [/quote]

Or you tell them, as our school does, that everyone is in charge of their own plate and what larla eats is for larla and what Chloe eats is for Chloe, which Lin addition to not singling out the kids with allergies, is part of teaching healthy body image.[/quote]

Okay. And if your school doesn't subscribe to your ethos, you change schools, right? find a place that fits for you, rather than wedging into a place that fits other people and demanding change?

Right?[/quote]

What is the “ethos” in question? I think it’s reasonable to expect anyone providing childcare to be up to date on best practices for feeding and nutrition and if they aren’t, to be willing to learn something if appropriate. I also think a parent would be out of line expecting change for other children (like the people saying there should be a no cookie rule) but in line about something that only impacts their own child— like how my child eats a muffin for breakfast while the other children eat eggs. [/quote]

"up to date best practices" Sure.

Okay. Then petition for that and make the case for systemic change to the people who can do it. Don't just crap all over one teacher. Change the system instead of just being a dick.[/quote]

Im not the pp but that is why I would definitely talk to the administration about this rule to advocate for school wide change.   I’d provide references to the science and hopefully get a policy that forbids such rules .[/quote]

Is this the Acorn school?[/quote]

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