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  • #46
    Well we had a minor miracle today. Diabesity kid actually ate his freaking lunch. Because the dessert was canned fruit and he flat out refuses to eat any kind of fruit unless it's fruit-flavored candy.

    Poor thing actually had to eat his spaghetti.

    We get a lot of parents who don't want to be parents at my school. They're paying us to parent for them after all. As long as we don't hurt pwecious' feeeeelings.
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    • #47
      Me and my sister were having a school lunch when we were about 6 and we were given Rhubarb crumble. We told the lady we can't eat that but she told us we had to. So we did and when we got home we were sick all night, mum asked us what we had eaten so we told her what had happened.

      The next day she went up to the school and gave the head teacher an earful. We were never made to eat by the school anything after that.
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      • #48
        We have an allergy card for each child, and we make sure not to have anything that any child is allergic to.

        Also all of the food is portioned by grade level, 7th graders get larger portions then kindergartners and we generally have seconds available if kids are still hungry.

        We're not slave drivers, and we treat the kids with respect. I'm just tired of being treated like a slave.
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        • #49
          I just reread this thread...I think we have another Moron Boy in the making
          I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!

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          • #50
            Quoth Kanalah View Post
            One 1st grader is tiny, and she only pecks at her food. She has to have a catheter put in after lunch - she was here last year and I heard that her parents didn't want to potty train her, so we have to do the catheter.

            And this year we have a 3 year old that when she came at the beginning of the school year she didn't know how to chew. She'd only been fed baby food. So mom packed candy and junk food to "encourage" her to eat at school.


            Hello...child abuse!!! How can a three year old not know how to CHEW?!

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            • #51
              Quoth notalwaysright View Post
              I was just reading something about kids and food. It was somewhere in the middle of "you must eat this!" and "eat anything!" It was basically trade good for good. So if the kid doesn't like Brussels sprouts, trade them with peas. Don't trade them with Twinkies. That sounded fairly reasonable.
              I like that idea.

              I also like the idea of making (or buying) meals that are also good cold, and serving the kid a reasonable-for-that-kid size serving. He can eat what he wants to now, and put the rest in the fridge for later.
              If he gets hungry and doesn't want the meal in the fridge, he can have his daily serve of fruit or cheese or bread (if he hasn't yet) or a glass of milk or juice; but not ice cream or sweets or cookies.
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              2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
              3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
              4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

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              • #52
                Quoth Kanalah View Post
                Well we had a minor miracle today. Diabesity kid actually ate his freaking lunch. Because the dessert was canned fruit and he flat out refuses to eat any kind of fruit unless it's fruit-flavored candy.
                Well, in my experience, canned fruit is generally an abomination. Admittedly, it's been a while.

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                • #53
                  Quoth Aria View Post
                  Well, in my experience, canned fruit is generally an abomination. Admittedly, it's been a while.
                  The only brand I have (besides just solo fruit like pears) isn't bad just too sweet.

                  I will say my early childhood professor (she works mornings and early afternoons in an actual daycare because after working to set a curriculum and arranging the space for a campus based daycare she had a board member shoot it down because 'it should have its own building not a few rooms in another' and then 7 years later and nothing) says her biggest issue in her class is the students lunches. Most of the parents send servings that are way too big and few send way too much junk food. She teaches about balanced diets and then starts lunchbox checks where she sits with a child and go over the items in their box against the federal food plate thing so the students will what's good and what's bad. Then she sends home a report to the parents about what's lacking in the box.

                  Parents hate it but the kids get excited cause the love their teacher and usually have her for 2 years so they start sending more balanced meals to 'stop being judged' by her and their kids.

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                  • #54
                    Quoth Sliceanddice View Post
                    The only brand I have (besides just solo fruit like pears) isn't bad just too sweet.

                    I will say my early childhood professor (she works mornings and early afternoons in an actual daycare because after working to set a curriculum and arranging the space for a campus based daycare she had a board member shoot it down because 'it should have its own building not a few rooms in another' and then 7 years later and nothing) says her biggest issue in her class is the students lunches. Most of the parents send servings that are way too big and few send way too much junk food. She teaches about balanced diets and then starts lunchbox checks where she sits with a child and go over the items in their box against the federal food plate thing so the students will what's good and what's bad. Then she sends home a report to the parents about what's lacking in the box.

                    Parents hate it but the kids get excited cause the love their teacher and usually have her for 2 years so they start sending more balanced meals to 'stop being judged' by her and their kids.
                    I will say this would really rub me the wrong way as a parent. Not the education piece, but because there are kids with special circumstances where their lunch is NOT going to meet external guidelines and singling them out doesn't help. My kiddo is allergic to nuts, eggs, and dairy, and also has significant sensory and attention issues. We send more food than he needs so that we know he will actually eat enough to get him through the day (something that was fine yesterday may be the completely wrong texture for him today). He usually doesn't eat all of it, and if he did we know there's a growth spurt! We also include some junk/treat food so that if he's totally distracted or just having a bad day, there's something in there that we KNOW he will eat so he gets some calories.

                    I'm sure your prof is very respectful with her charges. I just think educating about nutrition in the general (talking about it with the whole class, showing examples of good lunches but not a specific kid's lunch) is perhaps a better approach than making a kid feel bad about their own lunch, especially in front of other kids.

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                    • #55
                      Quoth paperfiend View Post
                      I will say this would really rub me the wrong way as a parent. Not the education piece, but because there are kids with special circumstances where their lunch is NOT going to meet external guidelines and singling them out doesn't help. My kiddo is allergic to nuts, eggs, and dairy, and also has significant sensory and attention issues. We send more food than he needs so that we know he will actually eat enough to get him through the day (something that was fine yesterday may be the completely wrong texture for him today). He usually doesn't eat all of it, and if he did we know there's a growth spurt! We also include some junk/treat food so that if he's totally distracted or just having a bad day, there's something in there that we KNOW he will eat so he gets some calories.

                      I'm sure your prof is very respectful with her charges. I just think educating about nutrition in the general (talking about it with the whole class, showing examples of good lunches but not a specific kid's lunch) is perhaps a better approach than making a kid feel bad about their own lunch, especially in front of other kids.
                      Oh I feel I need to clarify a bit.
                      1) The lunchbox checks are done semi-private. Usually she sits with them at a separate table while other students are working on one of the many other things they do in a day (she has 2 assistants and usually has 2 or 3 things going on at once) and the checks usually only take about 5 minutes.

                      2) she always keeps in mind the child's allergies, as she has them all on file. Her notes are usually "Thank you so much for sending John to class today with a nice nutritious spaghetti meal but a gallon tub is a bit much for a 3 year old. Here are the recommended servings for a 3 year old and their comparative sizes' or ' I understand that kinds can be picky but send a lunch that consists of 3 slim jims, a snickers bar and a cheese and crackers does not a balanced meal make. Please try to send a better balanced meal in the future'. ect. ect. (these examples are based on real lunches btw).

                      3) she doesn't make the parents change the meals. She gives suggestions of a good meals, gives information about nutrition for young children and makes the kid excited and interested in eating a balanced meal. Usually the complaints from the parents are 'My kid wants to eat fruits and veggies for lunch! I have to buy those now!!' and usually the parents get over it quickly.

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                      • #56
                        Quoth Kanalah View Post
                        He's already on the chubby side and has more metal in his mouth then teeth. *sigh*
                        Sadly, this sounds like my stepson. Every year he'd show up at our house for the summer ... and every year I'd have to go through his luggage and throw away the ridiculous amount of candy his mother had packed along. He's always had real psychological issues with food. To top it all off, by the time he was 13 he was diagnosed with both celiac disease and type 1 diabetes. And he still cheats rampantly on his diet. It's to the point where we can't have any sweets at all in the house when he's here - because he will find them and gorge on them in the middle of the night.

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                        • #57
                          Quoth Monterey Jack View Post


                          Hello...child abuse!!! How can a three year old not know how to CHEW?!
                          A minor developmental delay and parents who won't admit their child isn't the mot brilliant, well-rounded, and all-around awesome thing ever to come out of a woman.

                          Some parents are just that stupid.
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                          • #58
                            Quoth manybellsdown View Post
                            Sadly, this sounds like my stepson. Every year he'd show up at our house for the summer ... and every year I'd have to go through his luggage and throw away the ridiculous amount of candy his mother had packed along. He's always had real psychological issues with food. To top it all off, by the time he was 13 he was diagnosed with both celiac disease and type 1 diabetes. And he still cheats rampantly on his diet. It's to the point where we can't have any sweets at all in the house when he's here - because he will find them and gorge on them in the middle of the night.
                            Oh dear gods. Please tell me she's not still giving him candy.

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                            • #59
                              Most of the children that attend this school are wealthy. Their parents give them anything and everything they want so they can have peace and quiet. What they lack is someone to give them boundaries and expectations of behavior.

                              We have kindergartners with apple watches and ipads. One told me that she got in trouble because she took her ipad with her to the bath and cracked the screen. One of the 4th graders was telling me about an R rated movie he had watched. A 3rd grader was telling me all about the Deadpool movie because he's seen it multiple times. Probably the worst was when a 4 year old was telling me all about what happened on last night's episode of The Walking Dead.
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                              • #60
                                Kanalah, that brings up one of my pet peeves, age appropriateness. Fudging on the PG rating stuff, even PG-13, ok, that's one thing, but grade schoolers watching R movies pisses me off.

                                Speaking of Deadpool, the freaking star of the show did a PSA about parents not letting their underage kids watch the movie. Almost nobody paid attention to it, though.

                                My first grader has asked to watch the walking dead, as some of his classmates have told him about the show. Not gonna happen.


                                Tangenting the age-appropriateness bit, F*ing Facebook. I don't want friend requests from my friends grade school kids. Their TOS states you need to be 13. For that matter, I'm tired of getting annoyed messages from my friends, "why didn't you accept juniors friend request?"

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