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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such a weird thread because it seems so odd to establish your superior parenting over making a school lunch.  Do you really think the kids who have their lunch made are going to end up irresponsible spoiled brats tied to their ipads for life?  For people who like to make lunches in the morning, it is hardly worth a battle to get one's kid motivated to do what is a pretty menial task.  Now if you asked how many kids clean toilets, then you can establish your bona fides as a superior parent, particularly for those parents who push their 5 year olds to clean their toilets after making their lunch (and soon dinner for the whole family).  [/quote]
It didn't seem to me that many, if any, of those who responded to this thread were claiming that they were superior parents because they made or didn't make their kids' lunches.  I think it's a very interesting question, and I like knowing what others do.  I actually did an informal poll of many of my friends on this topic not long ago because my then 7th grader claimed he was the only person at school who was forced to make his own lunch in the morning.  I thought he was just being dramatic, but it turned out that the vast majority of my friends are still making their kids' lunches.  It didn't change our lunch-making practices much, but I am more sympathetic when he gripes about the (incredible, unbelievable) burden it places on him, and I've taken to making his lunch for him on special occasions. [/quote]

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