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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a single mom for 10 years before I remarried. I lived in DC with my son (5 yrs old when we moved) in a small apt for 5 years before meeting my second DH.  We cooked at home, walked everywhere, learned to love the metro, used a cart for groceries and made it fun.  I dont buy the single mom excuse card at all.  Kids mimick you when you eat or cook so why is it that now being single or living on a smaller wage is an excuse to teach them things that will inevitably harm their health? I know we all do the best we can do but we also need to prioritize better. I have a hard time believing that a single mom who excuses herself from modeling good nutrition for her kids would change her ways once she was no longer single or living with a larger salary.  I know dual income families that feed their kids crap and they dont have a problem with resources - so to me, this is not a marital status or income issue.  This is a complacency issue. [/quote]

You obviously speak English and know how to get around.

That is not always the case for many single mothers of the students I teach.  Furthermore, I, too, would like to know your education level.

Being a single mother is not the same as being a victim; I agree.  However, you must realize that you have advantages over many single moms.[/quote]

I'm also a teacher in Columbia Heights.  I teach Pre-K.  The children in my classroom have parents who speak primarily Spanish.  The parents are first immigration immigrants, and I know for a fact that some of them don't have legal papers.  I also have parents who speak Arabic and Farsi.  I speak Spanish so I can communicate verbally with my parents, but it was a rude awakening for me to realize that some of them don't know how to read.  Never mind English; they don't know how to read Spanish!  The written word means very little or nothing to them.  Somehow I doubt whether they are obsessing over whether the label on the fruit cocktail bottle says "high fructose corn syrup" or whether there are trans-fats in the crackers.

Our program serves three meals a day and the food is very healthy.  Half of it goes in the trash because the kids won't eat it (like asparagus, boiled spinach, blanched green beans, etc); I doubt this fact, however, is very different from other schools.  I hope that my parents are feeding their children healthy native foods at home like beans, plantains, and tortillas, but I don't know if this is the reality for many of them.  I think the quick option is the hot dog cart or Five Guys.   Fortunately we have a huge enclosed playground so the kids get to really run at outdoor time. [/quote]

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