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[quote=Anonymous]Ok, so here’s the thing. If the teacher lets your DC eat “dessert” first (forget for a minute whether it’s actually sweets, the point is it looks like a cookie), then she’ll be stuck with a bunch of other kids whining that they want to eat dessert first. And if she lets them, half of those kids will eat their dessert and stop there. And now she has 8 sets of parents on her case, vs just you. Preschool teachers need to keep rules simple and consistent, even if they may not be perfect for every individual child.

You can teach DC that the school rules are such that this container gets eaten after everything else. Or you can shape the banana/oatmeal things in bars and label them something very non-desserty so that the teacher won’t confuse them with cookies. But please don’t set your teacher up by asking for a special exception so that the rest of the class has to watch your kid getting special allowances.

Btw, my approach to food at home is similar to yours. I’d have no problem with my kids eating the cookies first. But I also have no problem expecting them to follow the norm in a group setting. My kids are teens now and haven’t suffered for it. [/quote]

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