I'd really love to see a Venn diagram illustrating the parents freaking out about daycares/schools "controlling" their kids' eating and the parents who "just happen" to have picky eaters.

True health/dietary issues notwithstanding.

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Anonymous wrote:Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa, is an eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

This is a total BS made up RX. However, the preschool teacher is suffering from something. I think it's control issues.

Fixed your typo for you.

Case in point. Control issues. Thanks for controlling my ability to express my disagreement.

TIL DCUM is a hotbed of disordered eating and adults who want to plan how to power trip on little kids. Has anyone considered a hobby? Let the kids eat their food however it's packed!

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Anonymous wrote:Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa, is an eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

This is a total BS made up RX. However, the preschool teacher is suffering from something. I think it's control issues.

Fixed your typo for you.

Anonymous wrote:Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa, is an eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

This is a total BS made up RX. However, OP is suffering from something. I think it's control issues.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m just cracking up at this. I work in a public school as a kindergarten aide. We have to supervise K lunch. I couldn’t care less what your child packs or eats. I’m there to make sure they stay seated, don’t bother their neighbor, and clean up when lunch is over and line up nicely. That is all. If you could avoid packages and containers I have to open for them, that would be awesome.

Exactly!

It’s the bare minimum. At least the preschool teacher is paying attention and isn’t just someone with a pulse.

She can pay attention to her own lunch. Mind your own business and keep yourself out of what a parent lacks to eat for their own child.

This is exactly what the child's attitude is going to be as soon as she sets foot into K, except she's going to be saying it to the OP -- mind your own business and keep yourself out of what I choose to eat at lunch (or more likely NOT saying anything to her mom, but simply throwing away her "healthy cookies," and taking the chocolate milk and Lunchables off of the Share Shelf and trading her yogurt or simply begging for real cookies and skittles and chocolate from her friends in the cafeteria. Good luck.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m just cracking up at this. I work in a public school as a kindergarten aide. We have to supervise K lunch. I couldn’t care less what your child packs or eats. I’m there to make sure they stay seated, don’t bother their neighbor, and clean up when lunch is over and line up nicely. That is all. If you could avoid packages and containers I have to open for them, that would be awesome.

Exactly!

It’s the bare minimum. At least the preschool teacher is paying attention and isn’t just someone with a pulse.

She can pay attention to her own lunch. Mind your own business and keep yourself out of what a parent lacks to eat for their own child.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m just cracking up at this. I work in a public school as a kindergarten aide. We have to supervise K lunch. I couldn’t care less what your child packs or eats. I’m there to make sure they stay seated, don’t bother their neighbor, and clean up when lunch is over and line up nicely. That is all. If you could avoid packages and containers I have to open for them, that would be awesome.

Exactly!

It’s the bare minimum. At least the preschool teacher is paying attention and isn’t just someone with a pulse.

My kid goes to public preschool, and she told me for breakfast yesterday they had a chocolate bar (granola) and a cup of fruit (syrup and canned fruit). With chocolate milk. I’m pretty sure it covered 250% of my child‘s weekly recommended sugar intake, in one sugary meal at 8 am. Thank you, government!

Surely there are at least a few choices? I've never yet seen ONLY chocolate milk offered in school for any meal, for instance.

I know. You're not there to hold your kid's hand during public school breakfast.

But if there were other choices offered, like plain milk or a granola bar that didn't have chocolate, or a piece of fruit instead of a "fruit cup" -- well, please don't snark at "government." Instead, talk to your child about choices.

You'll probably say, the school shouldn't have those sugary choices available at all. And I agree with that. But I also know the schools can't win no matter what; if they eliminated those foods, they'd probably get blowback from parents who say their kids ate no school breakfast because Johnny hates plain milk and whole fruit or whatever. You can't control that but you can only talk to your kid about choices over and over, or send a packed breakfast and lunch. Snarking at the "government' won't help your kid make a different choice at lunch on Monday.

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Anonymous wrote:As many awful things the generations past committed, I long for the days when children just f***** did what the teacher says. Why must every parent have precisely their preferred method and manner of childcare rendered in their absence? Why must the rest of us suffer because your child cannot handle listening to their crotchety old teacher the rest of the children accept? Must everything be custom to your child?

Back in the day, teachers didn't micromanage lunch so there was no issue. No need for customization here. Everyone is allowed to eat what their parents give them in whatever order they like. Period.

Less work for the teacher. No need to figure out if something is desert or not. Much less work for the teacher than dealing with unhappy kids and unhappy parents.

Alternatively provide lunch and serve the lunch in the order you'd like. (although in many schools all of lunch is served at once and kids eat what they want in the order they like - which goes back to WHY oh WHy is this teacher micromanaging lunch when it is completely unnecessary.)

Teachers were wiser in the good old days.

What are you talking about? Does nobody remember grandma insisting “you won’t eat your dinner if you eat a cookie now”? I have no sympathy for parents who determined their child is too fragile to obey teachers lest their child be exposed to even mild frustration or (horrors!) even eye-rollingly dumb rules of old ladies. How about just telling your kid to eat the way the teacher says *because she’s the teacher* and I promise your child will be better off than the kid whose mom bit**es at Dementia Dawn over her illogical order-of-consumption rules.

Teachers didn’t micromanage lunch. Get over yourself.

You missed pp's point.

No, there is no point except that the teacher keeps her nose out of a child’s lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:That's a terrible lunch, I'm sorry.

Sandwich = bread = carbs = sugar
Berries = carbs = sugar
Yogurt = carbs = sugar
Banana = carbs = sugar
Oatmeal = carbs = sugar

Sure, berries & bananas have natural sugar, but bananas are a fruit that has one of the highest sugar contents.

The teacher probably saw all that sugar and wanted to cut the kid back so there wasn't a crash after lunch or behavior issues.

You have an eating disorder. I hope you recognize that.

Sounds like an Atkins disciple. And one who doesn't know, or refuses to learn, the difference between types of sugars and how they break down in the body differently. Just equates every possible food with "sugar" with no distinction. I genuinely hope this PP talks to an actual, trained nutritionist, if he or she eschews things like oatmeal and blueberries as simply "sugar." That's simplistic, ill-informed thinking that needs serious professional guidance.

Anonymous wrote:That's a terrible lunch, I'm sorry.

Sandwich = bread = carbs = sugar
Berries = carbs = sugar
Yogurt = carbs = sugar
Banana = carbs = sugar
Oatmeal = carbs = sugar

Sure, berries & bananas have natural sugar, but bananas are a fruit that has one of the highest sugar contents.

The teacher probably saw all that sugar and wanted to cut the kid back so there wasn't a crash after lunch or behavior issues.

You have an eating disorder. I hope you recognize that.

Anonymous wrote:That's a terrible lunch, I'm sorry.

Sandwich = bread = carbs = sugar
Berries = carbs = sugar
Yogurt = carbs = sugar
Banana = carbs = sugar
Oatmeal = carbs = sugar

Sure, berries & bananas have natural sugar, but bananas are a fruit that has one of the highest sugar contents.

The teacher probably saw all that sugar and wanted to cut the kid back so there wasn't a crash after lunch or behavior issues.

So should the child only eat meat and leaves? Get out of here with your ignorance.

Anonymous wrote:Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa, is an eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

A preschool teacher should not be passing it on to my kid.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m just cracking up at this. I work in a public school as a kindergarten aide. We have to supervise K lunch. I couldn’t care less what your child packs or eats. I’m there to make sure they stay seated, don’t bother their neighbor, and clean up when lunch is over and line up nicely. That is all. If you could avoid packages and containers I have to open for them, that would be awesome.

Exactly!

It’s the bare minimum. At least the preschool teacher is paying attention and isn’t just someone with a pulse.

My kid goes to public preschool, and she told me for breakfast yesterday they had a chocolate bar (granola) and a cup of fruit (syrup and canned fruit). With chocolate milk. I’m pretty sure it covered 250% of my child‘s weekly recommended sugar intake, in one sugary meal at 8 am. Thank you, government!

You can decline the breakfast. Or pack your own! But you’d rather complain.

I can’t. The school policy is that every child has to eat breakfast unless they have dietary allergies, in which case they are allowed to bring breakfast from home. But thanks for offering your uninformed opinion as fact!

A public school cannot force your child to eat breakfast or tell you you can’t pack. Please state what school district you think is forcing this on you. You are the parent. Woman up. Jesus.

Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa, is an eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.