My friend became PTA President this year and one of her major initiatives is to cover lunch every Friday for the teachers. I will be at my 6 yo’s school on Friday from 10:45-1:15 and I’m very interested to see how diet culture shows up across the grades. I try my best to advocate for all kids to be able to trust their bodies. As a kinder…
My friend became PTA President this year and one of her major initiatives is to cover lunch every Friday for the teachers. I will be at my 6 yo’s school on Friday from 10:45-1:15 and I’m very interested to see how diet culture shows up across the grades. I try my best to advocate for all kids to be able to trust their bodies. As a kindergarten mom last year I went to lunch a few times, went on 2 field trips. and covered lunch for Teacher Appreciation and I saw a lot of the assertions to eat certain foods first. It has never made sense to me to tell a kid to eat PBJ before his donut. Our class mom brought pizza one day for her sons birthday but then told kids they should eat the lunch they brought first? It is very confusing to navigate especially when I can often feel like I’m the only one in my peer group who is invested in this work. And for what it’s worth my kid eats school lunch almost every day, occasionally my husband will have made or bought something amazing he wants to take the next day and I made him a lunch on his birthday and field trip day but prob 175 days of the school year he bought lunch and it does make him more adventurous. I wouldn’t call him more than typically picky but he does have some texture issues and a tougher time eating combined foods at home. He defaults to what he has eaten recently if asked what he wants and when forced to take lunch to summer camp one week he had a sun butter and jelly sandwich, string cheese, carrots, kettle chips lunch every single day. (This was Farmer in training camp which we chose bc my husband loves to grow veggies and our kid wanted to help his dad. they also tried some type of produce every day and made their own pickles so I think I packed a store pickle one day to compare to the ones he made). Thank you for the guide, there is so much to consider in elementary school especially!
My friend became PTA President this year and one of her major initiatives is to cover lunch every Friday for the teachers. I will be at my 6 yo’s school on Friday from 10:45-1:15 and I’m very interested to see how diet culture shows up across the grades. I try my best to advocate for all kids to be able to trust their bodies. As a kindergarten mom last year I went to lunch a few times, went on 2 field trips. and covered lunch for Teacher Appreciation and I saw a lot of the assertions to eat certain foods first. It has never made sense to me to tell a kid to eat PBJ before his donut. Our class mom brought pizza one day for her sons birthday but then told kids they should eat the lunch they brought first? It is very confusing to navigate especially when I can often feel like I’m the only one in my peer group who is invested in this work. And for what it’s worth my kid eats school lunch almost every day, occasionally my husband will have made or bought something amazing he wants to take the next day and I made him a lunch on his birthday and field trip day but prob 175 days of the school year he bought lunch and it does make him more adventurous. I wouldn’t call him more than typically picky but he does have some texture issues and a tougher time eating combined foods at home. He defaults to what he has eaten recently if asked what he wants and when forced to take lunch to summer camp one week he had a sun butter and jelly sandwich, string cheese, carrots, kettle chips lunch every single day. (This was Farmer in training camp which we chose bc my husband loves to grow veggies and our kid wanted to help his dad. they also tried some type of produce every day and made their own pickles so I think I packed a store pickle one day to compare to the ones he made). Thank you for the guide, there is so much to consider in elementary school especially!