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[quote=Anonymous]I’m not judging you for making your son’s lunch, so don’t take this as a criticism. This is how I transitioned my kids to making their own lunches (they were expected to do this around 6th grade in our house). This may be too babyish for a high schooler,  but it taught my kids how to do this as a matter of routine.  1) announce they will be making their lunches going forward; 2) sit down and brainstorm ideas for what they like and what they can pack and make a list of options (proteins, fruit, veggie, salty snack and sweet treat) 3) take the kids grocery shopping with the list the first few weeks and have them pick out the food (my kids liked this a lot) 4) write a checklist to keep in the kitchen to remind them to pack a protein, fruit, etc. 5) Intially I prepped the food for them (cut carrots, cucumbers, etc. 6) supervise the lunch packing the first few weeks. My kids really took agency and enjoyed this process. Your son may actually eat the lunch if he is putting things he likes in it. My son doesn’t like fruit so much, so he would skip that part and take two veggies instead. No more throwing cut fruit away!  Also, I always  happily make them their lunch if they ask because they are running late, feeling frazzled or whatever. They don’t ask often. [/quote]

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