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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that it's important to teach kids life skills and help them develop independence, but I really think people on this board take it way too far. I will be make by my third grader's lunch this year, OP. Will I make it in high school? I'm don't plan to, but I'm sure there will be times he is up late studying or at a sports practice and I will help him out. I believe that's what parents do, and what family does. My DH and I help each other out and care for each other in a similar way. Expecting children to basically care for themselves starting at age 4 is not the way I want to raise my children. [/quote]

I also help my DH out (and he me).  But my child has to learn things (to walk, to ride a bike, to make a lunch).  These things are tought in childhood.  At 1st grade we make lunch together so she could see what a healthy lunch looked like and what I wanted her to pack.  I helped with the hard things - and she got to pick some of the things to put in her lunch.  Once she was able to handle it - we went from there.

I get it - you want to pinterest or instagram your pretty lunches for your friends, but the fact that your 1st or 2nd grade kids can't pack a lunch for themselves speaks more to your parenting then your children.  [/quote]

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