What Are These 'so called' Parents Doing!!

You take pictures of the snacks of your 6 and 7 year old students and post it on the internet. I don't really know what else to say to that. :indifferent:

Oh, and you think oreo cookies, juice, peaches, oranges, croissants, bear paw cookies, gold fish crackers, and granola bars makes someone unqualified to be a parent. Really, with all the horrible child abuse in the world. But, oreo cookies is where you draw the line. Oreo cookies are horrendous. :brokenheart:

First question on the parent test: Would you feed your child oreos for a snack?

Next question: What about gold fish crackers?

Tiny oranges?

Oreo cookies are horrendous. :brokenheart:

Actually they are horrid things! Yuck! lol

This thread is rather embarrassing...and depressing. Please don't judge ALL teachers based on the comments and behaviors of the FEW. :flowerforyou:

I won't! The teachers at my children's school are amazing!!! And they don't have eating disorders.

Do your grade one students know the difference between 'their', 'there' and 'they're'? Maybe they can help you out. Sorry, couldn't resist. :blushing:

lol that was the first thing I noticed too. And the use of 'one'... So 1960s...

OP I have to say that I a more disturbed by the thought of you taking photos of their snacks and posting them on a board than I am by the actual snacks. Not that I'm a fan of processed mass produced cookies, but if the rest of their diet is healthy I wouldn't worry about it.

Agree that it's a little disturbing you took photos of these kids' lunches and posted them online.

So, what are those cookies in the second photo? They look good.

This thread is rather embarrassing...and depressing. Please don't judge ALL teachers based on the comments and behaviors of the FEW. :flowerforyou:

I don't My son has been blessed with teachers who try to work with him (and with all of their students). It's generally the people who have minimal experience with children and parenting who give me grief. But eventually one does tire of other people saying how they could raise my special-needs child better than I have.

I'll be sure to tell my mother that she raised us horribly. Even though she was a single mother working and raising two kids (later three) so we could go to school, never be hungry, and had a warm home. Yup, the fact she let us eat Goldfish crackers was terrible!!!

I was at a healthy weight when I lived at home, and now I realize Mom was teaching us about a little thing called portion control. I threw that out the window in college. I thought she was just being mean by not letting us gobble down all the food we wanted.

What an evil, terrible parent.

I'm wondering who shamed the OP over her eating habits? :O

Wow it's really creepy that you're taking pictures of children's lunches so you can post them on here and make weird assumptions about how well their parents are taking care of them.

OP, insinuating that these parents are unfit due to their food choices for their children isn't going over very well, is it? I agree with those who say that this is unprofessional on your part. Posting on a public forum about your students' snacks is not being helpful to anyone but yourself. I understand IF you are concerned for the children but that is not what you conveyed here. If you began a post and mentioned a few of their snacks by name and asked what you could do to get through to the parents that they might make better choices in the future it would be much more appropriate and better received. Giving your kid an oreo doesn't make you a bad parent last I checked.

You could go to each child and ask them what their favorite snacks are. Maybe have them make a list? Show them which foods are healthy and which are less healthy. Bring a basket of fruit and let the kids eat it. You could casually mention to the parents that , 'I noticed ____ really likes to eat grapes because he ate them today at snack time' You could write a letter in the school bulletin or to the parents about the importance good nutrition for the children and make suggestions of healthy snacks, maybe even recipes. Or you could just mind your own business. What you did was not helpful as any of these things would have been. A parent shouldn't have to explain their choices for their child (especially since none of these are particularly harmful) if you don't need to explain why you chose to post this thread as opposed to doing any of the things above.

And yes some people have less healthy food at their disposal than others and less time than others. Take a walk in someone else's shoes and perhaps you'd be a bit less judgmental.

My older daughter will eat all kinds of great stuff.

I don't know why, but for some reason my younger daughter was born with her own personality and her own tastes. Oh, the horror.

And while she will eat much more variety at home, she is very picky about the state of her food at school. My older daughter is on the lunch program at school, but the school asked me to remove my younger daughter from the lunch program because she would cry everyday and not eat the food. So, I send her with lunch. and it's very odd what she will and won't eat. And while she is away I would rather her eat than not eat because, like me, she is very tiny and active. She won't eat a sandwich, but sometimes will eat a slice of bread, raw, fresh veggies, and a cheese stick, and milk in a thermos, and another snack. It's odd, but it's the same components of a sandwich. I spoke with her teacher about it. And the teacher, who is very kind and joyful, laughed and said that she's not worried because my daughter looks so healthy and happy, and she is ahead academically, and she knows she is eating well overall. I'm not a paranoid mother. I know that children grow and that just because they are particular at age 6, it doesn't mean they will never grow and expand and change. But, I guess my child should be taken away from me because I don't hold her down and force feed her.