What Are These 'so called' Parents Doing!!

Oh. My. Gahhhhhhd. Someone call child protective services right now. This is a travesty.

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When my daughter was in grade school and day care, it was very difficult to send snacks that she would eat that didn't need refrigeration...I have a decent knowledge of nutrition and I was stumped most days. At least, now they have apple slices, and no sugar added fruits and stuff that are grab and go. Still, what protein can you send with a kid that won't spoil??

This is the kind of post that gives teachers a bad name. Where do you teach? I'd love to have a chat with your principal, and maybe your school board, I'm sure taking pictures in your classroom and posting them publicly on the internet is something they would love to know about, as well as your horrible attitude (and poor grammar, especially as a teacher who is supposed to be teaching first graders how to spell and proper grammar.)

Really pathetic.

Immature moment here but am I the only person to notice op name is shart....snorts

nope. I saw that too and thought it unfortunate...now I'm starting to think 'under a bridge'....

So quick to judge. My 10 year old is about a stone underweight due to his fathers genes I assume, so I do give him healthy along with 'bad' foods in his packed lunch as he needs the extra calories. If however I had an overweight child then things would be different. I believe if u ban all junk foods from children then they might in adulthood binge on everything they were deprived of as a child...that's what I did! When my 10 year old comes home from school he has a home cooked meal and for extra calories toast with lashings of peanut butter, again to up his calorie intake. Some kids refuse to eat fruit, my 4 year old refuses but my other 2 love the stuff, I put fruit in my 4 yr old's packed lunch so teachers won't complain or judge, I know he won't eat it though! Moral of the story-don't judge :-)

It is called moderation. These really aren't that bad depending on the context. If the kids have good nutrition at home on a regular basis and can have cookies for snack, is that bad? Even if the kids eat Lucky Charms for breakfast , have these snacks (many of which aren't that bad, sorry), and then have a pre-prepaired meal at home, you are in no place to judge. There is nothing wrong with Goldfish or cookies from time to time, especially not for snack. Now if these were their LUNCHES, I may be a bit concerned.

Honestly, I was expected a horror story-- not high-horse judgement. I'm a pre-service teacher and I have seen some upsetting nutritional standards from children's parents. Once I had 9-year-old twins at a summer daycare camp who always brought a Slim Jim, a bag of Dorito chips, one Go-gurt, eight Oreos, a bag of M&Ms/candy, and a Capree Sun for lunch every single day. They would often bring their own breakfast, consisting of one or two Dunkin' Donuts doughnuts, at 8am too because they did not like our healthy selection of cereals and/or yohgurt. THEIR nutrition I was concerned about, especially since they thought that a Slim Jim counted as a healthy source of protein when we did a nutrition unit with them. The kids were thin and played sports, so their parents weren't worried about their health. They would often go out for pizza or Burger King for dinner too.

As much as this concerned me, however, I would NEVER whip out my Instagram phone, take pictures, then post them on the internet to mock them and their parents. That is bullying. A teacher should never bully.

You are going to get ripped to shreds for this piece of judgemental rubbish. I have no sympathy.

Looking through the OP's previous posts, as far as I can tell she is ' recovering ' from an ED, therefore I feel really she has no place in judging what our children eat even more than I did before.

I know we all have our own journeys for different things/reasons, but if you want to encourage our children of today to be healthy then really you need to start with yourself!

Just wanted to add: The parents you speak of are not "so called" parents. They ARE parents. As a retired educator, it was very rare for me to meet a parent that did not truly love their child. Do we make mistakes as parents? Certainly. Shaming parents to change their behavior never works.

I'm guessing you're not a parent. It's always the non-parents that seem to know how to do it all right and feel quite free letting the world know exactly which way that is.

I don't see candy. I see cookies, crackers and fruit. It's a snack, not a nutrition exam.

I was thinking the same thing. In small doses we can eat whatever we want. It's when it gets out of control that it becomes an issue. Let the kids have a freakin' cookie without guilt!