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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 [b]in this case the kid [/b]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]

Yep, gotta cater to the snowflakes. [/quote]

Anything to make sure my snowflake has a healthy attitude towards food and doesn’t end up like the majority of adults in this country.  [/quote]

This. Supporting a teacher on an unnecessary power trip isn’t more important to me than my child having lunch.[/quote]

You see this as a power trip. That really says it all, doesn't it. [/quote]

Yes, because it has nothing to do with nutrition as established above— it’s all about dictating the order of food which is a really ridiculous thing to consider more important than whether a four year old gets to eat her lunch on a given day. If it’s a genuine misunderstanding the teacher will not police in the future, and if it’s a power trip the teacher will blame the parent.[/quote]

It's classroom management.[/quote]

Which is important. It’s not more important than a 4 y/o getting to eat the lunch her parents packed for her. So the teacher might need to read more up to date guidance on nutrition, or might need to arrange the seating so the easily distracted children don’t sit near someone whose lunch might interest them, or teach her class about how we are only in charge of our own plates— an important lesson in self regulation. Not expect a kid to go hungry because her healthy food might distract someone sitting near by.[/quote]

If your kid is going to melt down so much over not getting to eat a cookie before the rest of her lunch, maybe she isn't ready for preschool. There are plenty of daycares out there. [/quote]

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