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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I also think your husband should visit at lunch. I was one of the people mentioning this already, but I wanted to add something. Parents who volunteer at lunch in the early years at our school spend most of their time walking around helping kids open containers that they can't open by themselves. Are you sure DS can open the thermos by himself? After I saw this, I tried never to give my kids things they couldn't open by themselves, because some kids spend a long time holding their hand up waiting for someone to come open their container. By the time it's open, they have less time to eat!

I also don't think there is anything wrong with PB and J every day. Ironically, that's the only lunch that my daughter refuses to eat! It always comes home with her. I'm trying to teach her that she should eat her lunch even if she doesn't like it. But I don't want to give her too much of a hard time about not eating it, because if I do I think she'll start throwing it away at school and I'll never know if she ate it or not. What I do is offer her the leftover lunch sandwich as her after-school snack. It's interesting that usually she is perfectly happy to eat something at home after not eating it at lunch. Of course, she's also quite hungry by the time she gets home, so that helps too! This has worked well for me, since she learns that I don't like to see it wasted, and also don't like her to be hungry. I also hope that it teaches her that it really doesn't taste that bad. (I don't point this out, since the more you press something the more kids will resist. But I think she'll learn it.)[/quote]

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