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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Going hungry for one meal will not hurt your children, and may teach them not to forget their lunch again.[/quote]

I don't get comments like this.  Have you never forgotten anything, even though you "know better"?  People forget.  Kids forget.  It happens.  It's one thing if the kid left his lunch everyday, but he leaves it one time and now needs to be taught a lesson?  Ridiculous.

OP, if I had e time, I would drop it off; otherwise, I try to ensure the kids have money in their lunch accounts or have cash in them.[/quote]

And kids remember this stuff, too. I rarely forgot things but felt horrible when I did, and I still remember the one time in high school where I left a big assignment at home, called my dad in a panic, and he left work mid-morning to go fetch it out of the printer tray and bring it to school. I knew I'd massively inconvenienced him and felt embarrassed and highly incentivized to never do such a thing again, but it meant a lot that he was willing to bail me out.

It can't become a habitual thing, but I don't see the need to teach my kids that no other human will ever pick up any slack for them or help them out, because that simply isn't true.[/quote]

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