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Parenting: the Official TMMAC Thread
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I miss my kids being little and doing things like this.
Teenagers are lil assholes.
Context: my son is going to be 4 in a couple of months. He is starting Pre-K in a real school. I am supposed to choose his lunches for the whole month. This menu makes me want to cry. I don't want him eating french fries and pizza every day. He is pretty picky, so he won't eat a lot of the other choices. But I am concerned if I send him lunch, that he will then be surrounded by people eating pizza and french fries and cry that he wants it (or just try to reach for it). Also, how can I ever let there be a day when his classmates have ice cream in front of him and he doesn't get any? I can't. 
I sent my kid's lunch and bought the ice cream, etc from school. They went through wanting to eat what everyone else had but soon went back to asking for a packed lunch.Context: my son is going to be 4 in a couple of months. He is starting Pre-K in a real school. I am supposed to choose his lunches for the whole month. This menu makes me want to cry. I don't want him eating french fries and pizza every day. He is pretty picky, so he won't eat a lot of the other choices. But I am concerned if I send him lunch, that he will then be surrounded by people eating pizza and french fries and cry that he wants it (or just try to reach for it). Also, how can I ever let there be a day when his classmates have ice cream in front of him and he doesn't get any? I can't.
Yes, it is sad
That's a good idea. I'm going to ask the teacher about it. Thanks.
It's a choice between being nice and being a parent. We often face those choices. The menu is terrible, it sounds like a fast food place to me. It's all junkfood on there. Good luck.Context: my son is going to be 4 in a couple of months. He is starting Pre-K in a real school. I am supposed to choose his lunches for the whole month. This menu makes me want to cry. I don't want him eating french fries and pizza every day. He is pretty picky, so he won't eat a lot of the other choices. But I am concerned if I send him lunch, that he will then be surrounded by people eating pizza and french fries and cry that he wants it (or just try to reach for it). Also, how can I ever let there be a day when his classmates have ice cream in front of him and he doesn't get any? I can't.
We just set up something similar with our 2 kids but I think we have some better options. The restaurants rotate weekly or something through out the year, here's a look.Context: my son is going to be 4 in a couple of months. He is starting Pre-K in a real school. I am supposed to choose his lunches for the whole month. This menu makes me want to cry. I don't want him eating french fries and pizza every day. He is pretty picky, so he won't eat a lot of the other choices. But I am concerned if I send him lunch, that he will then be surrounded by people eating pizza and french fries and cry that he wants it (or just try to reach for it). Also, how can I ever let there be a day when his classmates have ice cream in front of him and he doesn't get any? I can't.
We will probably get kids a healthy option (relatively speaking) every Wednesday here. They're sort of picky but we eat pretty good most the time so it's not hard for us to say no to shit food and they won't our up a stink, sushi is a weekly staple for us along with some other decent meals most kids would turn away from.
@Yossarian makes the obvious point though.
Thanks.
Dropped him off for his 90-minute "orientation" today. He started crying about thirty seconds after I left the room. The aide told me not to go back in.
He has been in "school" since he was two months old, but this is all new, and he's really not good with transitions. Reminds me of
@BrunoMcGyver actually. My son cried through the first several weeks of swim lessons, and now he's fine. Hopefully this doesn't last as long.Thankfully, his SEIT will be with him tomorrow.
Lots of better choices there. But still. I see where the US weight problems begin. It's probably portioned well, but we teach them young to eat that shit. My kid did not touch a pop (soda, soft drink) until after he was 10. If I take him to McDonalds or anywhere else, I want it to be a treat, not the usual.We just set up something similar with our 2 kids but I think we have some better options. The restaurants rotate weekly or something through out the year, here's a look.
We will probably get kids a healthy option (relatively speaking) every Wednesday here. They're sort of picky but we eat pretty good most the time so it's not hard for us to say no to shit food and they won't our up a stink, sushi is a weekly staple for us along with some other decent meals most kids would turn away from.
That said, put me down for 2x Sun Chips, and I'll have uhm...... uhm... 1x Alfredo with Chicken. Always wondered...who is that Alfredo guy.
I had some problem with my son as well, as he is diagnosed with some form of asperger, nothing drastic, but social changes were always CHAOS!!!! But the best thing is to be tough and let those changes teach them, instead of justifying their fear, etc by jumping in and intervene. In my experience.Thanks.
Dropped him off for his 90-minute "orientation" today. He started crying about thirty seconds after I left the room. The aide told me not to go back in.
He has been in "school" since he was two months old, but this is all new, and he's really not good with transitions. Reminds me of
Thankfully, his SEIT will be with him tomorrow.
I'm up in Canada. We're the same with pop and junk food, don't mind if it's camping or an event but we don't keep that shit in the house. It's actually gone in the other direction to the point I get embarrassed by my daughter. We'll go somewhere to eat and she's asking for ice water with lemon wedge, gluten free toast and egg white omlettes and she's 8...smh. Comes off like a spoiled princess sometimes but at least she's making good choice lol.
My kids eat the full gamut from junk food to salads from our garden. Their habit of eating high-quality food means that they usually can't stomach low-quality food. I'm the same way. Unfortunately, school food in the US is cost driven, so it's always the lowest quality, most heavily processed garbage.
My approach is similar to Shinkicker: give them the option between the garbage and a packed snack. You'll probably find that they prefer what you've packed if it's what they're used to eating, but they'll have the option of grabbing a slice of pizza if it catches their fancy or if they don't want to feel left out. On days when I don't pack anything, my kids have come home starving because they couldn't bring themselves to eat the garbage.
It doesn't have to be this way:
What French Kids Eat For School Lunch (It Puts Americans To Shame!)
My approach is similar to Shinkicker: give them the option between the garbage and a packed snack. You'll probably find that they prefer what you've packed if it's what they're used to eating, but they'll have the option of grabbing a slice of pizza if it catches their fancy or if they don't want to feel left out. On days when I don't pack anything, my kids have come home starving because they couldn't bring themselves to eat the garbage.
It doesn't have to be this way:
What French Kids Eat For School Lunch (It Puts Americans To Shame!)
I work in the schools here as a nurse sometimes. And yes, sometimes the teacher will send a tearful, scared pre-k student to me. My go-to thing is to ask what they saw or learned so far. Whatever their answer, I use it to suggest them being helpful to other kids who are "worried" (I use that term for a reason. I don't like to say 'scared'. That makes them cry sometimes lol)Thanks.
Dropped him off for his 90-minute "orientation" today. He started crying about thirty seconds after I left the room. The aide told me not to go back in.
He has been in "school" since he was two months old, but this is all new, and he's really not good with transitions. Reminds me of
Thankfully, his SEIT will be with him tomorrow.
If they don't follow and can't articulate a good answer then I will ask a few questions. For example, did you learn where the restroom is today? if they say yes, then you say something like, "wow! You're smart. Some kids have problems remembering. Will you help them out?"
I find most shy/nervous kids love to help others who may be nervous or scared.
That's a great strategy. I know it's definitely true of my son.
Jesus f'n christ, no wonder your people are fat. You've gotta be hard on the little fuckers, parents always ask me why their kids listen to, and respect me, but not them. It's all in mocking the children.
Do you engage in knife fights with them?
Share some yaa dong to keep things smooth in the classroom?
Practicing for prom night lolz jk
apple doesn't fall far from the tree lolz jk
Oh I was WAY worse as a kid. But mine are still a 5-6/10 on the arsehole scale.
I will implement this today. I'll start with a slap across the face, just to reset him.
Schottfred Domme, I am shitfaced. As a parent you have other resoinsibilites, Understand that children copy you.
It turns out they do not sell snack separately from lunch. However, the day they have the bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich, those sandwiches are made fresh and can be ordered without the bacon and cheese (my son doesn't like cheese combined with anything). So he can have scrambled eggs with fresh fruit and milk on Tuesdays at least.
I think your son is gays?