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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Allowing kids to eat the cookies first or pirate booty, animal cracker first for lunch works if they are at home. They will be hungry 30 or 45 minutes later and want more to eat. It’s all good if it’s your child and you’re handling them at home but when you have a group of kids and you have several who are irritable it can be disruptive to the entire class and not good for that one child.

In a preschool or daycare setting this is not always possible and leads to very irritable and cranky kids. Lunch is short and kids are slow eater so it’s preferable to have them eat their nutritionally dense foods first so they can be full and hopefully not have a sugar crash.

What is confusing to me as a long time DCUM reader is how parents freak out over schools offering chocolate milk and “unhealthy options “at school but are OK with their kids eating cookies for lunch.[/quote]

Except in this case the kid ended up hungry BECAUSE of this stupid rule.  If the teacher hadn’t incorrectly deemed the banana oats a Cookie then kid would not have been hungry.  Plenty of daycares and preschools operate just fine without this rule which is teaches wrong attitudes toward foods and is not a good rule.  [/quote]

The solution to too short lunchtime is to allot more time to lunch not create unhealthy rules.[/quote]

Lunchtime isn't too short.  It's the right amount of time.  If it were longer, then kids would dawdle even more.  But lunchtime isn't long enough for a kid to have a meltdown or tantrum and then eat a large meal, too.

If they do have a meltdown or a tantrum during lunch, they'll have a snack later.  It's still preschool.  The kids eat all the time.    [/quote]

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