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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my kid's preschool, one of the other students forgot her lunch. The mom didn't notice, so she didn't bring it in. No cafeteria. The school made her sit there with no food during lunch, watching all the other kids eat, claiming the natural consequences thing. I could not believe they didn't call the mom to ask about the lunch and let this 4 year old skip the meal.

OP, there is a cafeteria at my children's school, so they would just eat the school lunch that day. I would not bring in a library book, homework assignment, or backpack. But lunch? I'd bring that the first time they forgot if there was no backup. I forget things all the time and have a car to turn myself around to retrieve it. They don't have that option, so I'm willing to help them out from time to time.[/quote]

I can't believe they just let the kid sit there and watch in preschool.

Anyway, the call the mom comment kind of hit home because I notice the schools have the kids call mom, not dad when they forget things.  I get the pitiful, mom I forget x,long pause on the phone. I have an hour and a half round trip from my job to their school and back.  There are times I have to say, sorry, I can't leave work, if I don't have 90 minute block free on my schedule.  If I can swing it, I've given them one time per school year where I will go drop off a forgotten instrument or lunch but after that they are own their own.  Though they get annoyed that I ask, I will usually do a verbal ask if they have everything before the car pulls out the driveway.

Both the public school and the parochial school my kids have attended have a lunch that is provided to kids that forget lunch. Of course my kids won't eat the default lunch but I maintain, that is a choice.  Usually either their sibling will share some of the lunch or their friends share.  So I know they will figure something out.[/quote]

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