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  • Walkywalkerson
    Walkywalkerson Posts: 456 Member
    It makes me sad that children live on food like this.
    It's poison.
  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
    I have a 11year old and I can’t get him to be in the same room with vegetables. He just won’t eat them, and it’s not for a lack of trying.

    None of my own kids ever ate vegetables willingly either. And I did an enormous amount of trying to hide them among other ideas. Thankfully they all eat lots of different foods now(probably more than me).
    It makes me sad that children live on food like this.
    It's poison.

    Ok, while technically not poison, it can act like poison to some children, making them hyperactive, prone to diabetes and heart disease at earlier ages, etc., etc.. I think one of the worst side affects though is I feel that's what they'll end up wanting or craving. I grew up during the Koolaid and Devil Dog era. :( And even today, if I could have my way, I'd eat nothing but junk all the time.

    Whilst the foods shown in the photos are not the most nutritious options - calling them poison is just silly hyperbole.

    I've seen my share of 'you sent *THAT* in your child's lunchbox??' choices. It's really hard to keep your mouth shut when growing children are living on Pepperoni, potato chips and chocolate milk. Not only food choices make me SMH but when children get home from their day at school, they'll spend hours tuning into screens and tuning out of interaction or physical activity.
    When I operated an in home daycare, we'd spend as much time as possible outside. What we fed them was determined by what the state told us if we wanted to be on the food program. It's a multiple set of needs to help keep children healthy. Nothing more than the basics as for all of us....sleep, healthy food and exercise.
    But so many times tired, stressed out over-worked parents will do what's easy and quick.
  • rhtexasgal
    rhtexasgal Posts: 572 Member
    I was a child of the 1980s and went to school in a small town with a strong German and Czech ancestry. The lunch ladies made lunches homemade virtually every day - homemade gravies, yeast rolls, cobbler, fresh vegetables, etc. I remember in high school a few of our lunch ladies grilled the burgers outside on a grill! As these ladies got older and retired, there were fewer and fewer cafeteria workers that cared about the food as those sweet lunch ladies. My junior and senior year of high school, I either brought my lunch every day or ate a large salad or stuffed baked potato from the snack bar. We all missed those homemade lunches ...

    I think I raised my two boys (now 19 and 22) to be food snobs of a sort. They actually like grocery shopping and preparing food! They read food labels and do the tsk, tsk when they see something like hydrogenated anything, etc. While my youngest is not the best veggie and fruit eater, my oldest is adventurous. I can count on him to at least try new things.
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,997 Member
    more_oomph wrote: »
    absolutely shocking

    when did they bring back dunkaroos!

    I am not sure they ever went away.
    That said? I am half tempted to purchase this stylish bag.

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    https://shop.dunkaroos.com/collections/merch/products/belt-bag
  • Theoldguy1
    Theoldguy1 Posts: 2,497 Member
    PAPYRUS3 wrote: »
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    These are typical lunches I see on my students consume everyday.

    Curious if you are concerned or not at all?

    Close to child abuse if the same kids are eating like that every day.
  • Theoldguy1
    Theoldguy1 Posts: 2,497 Member
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    PAPYRUS3 wrote: »
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    These are typical lunches I see on my students consume everyday.

    Curious if you are concerned or not at all?

    Close to child abuse if the same kids are eating like that every day.

    I have done years of child care. And gone through actual child abuse cases. Involving the stuff of nightmares.

    Yes. This diet, if it is daily fare, is sub-optimal.
    No. It is not even close to abusive.

    My wife has a long career in education so I am familiar with the "official" definition of child abuse.

    Of course there isn't immediate physical/psychological damage from eating this stuff occasionally.

    If a habit, this will most likely lead to a lifetime of obesity and poor health, i.e., long term impact.
  • Theoldguy1
    Theoldguy1 Posts: 2,497 Member
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    PAPYRUS3 wrote: »
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    These are typical lunches I see on my students consume everyday.

    Curious if you are concerned or not at all?

    Close to child abuse if the same kids are eating like that every day.

    I have done years of child care. And gone through actual child abuse cases. Involving the stuff of nightmares.

    Yes. This diet, if it is daily fare, is sub-optimal.
    No. It is not even close to abusive.

    My wife has a long career in education so I am familiar with the "official" definition of child abuse.

    Of course there isn't immediate physical/psychological damage from eating this stuff occasionally.

    If a habit, this will most likely lead to a lifetime of obesity and poor health, i.e., long term impact.

    If one doesn't like the term child abuse for this substitute child neglect.
  • Theoldguy1
    Theoldguy1 Posts: 2,497 Member
    jjpptt2 wrote: »
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    PAPYRUS3 wrote: »
    g1m0y4pzo8ha.jpg0katyxh4uwsr.jpg

    These are typical lunches I see on my students consume everyday.

    Curious if you are concerned or not at all?

    Close to child abuse if the same kids are eating like that every day.

    I have done years of child care. And gone through actual child abuse cases. Involving the stuff of nightmares.

    Yes. This diet, if it is daily fare, is sub-optimal.
    No. It is not even close to abusive.

    My wife has a long career in education so I am familiar with the "official" definition of child abuse.

    Of course there isn't immediate physical/psychological damage from eating this stuff occasionally.

    If a habit, this will most likely lead to a lifetime of obesity and poor health, i.e., long term impact.

    I was with you until you chose the words "most likely"...

    I used the term "most likely" because absolutes get one in trouble. Almost everyone has heard about someone's great uncle Joe or great aunt Edna that has smoked cigs for 80 years and no lung cancer, can it happen, yes, but not likely.

  • Theoldguy1
    Theoldguy1 Posts: 2,497 Member
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    PAPYRUS3 wrote: »
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    These are typical lunches I see on my students consume everyday.

    Curious if you are concerned or not at all?

    Close to child abuse if the same kids are eating like that every day.

    I have done years of child care. And gone through actual child abuse cases. Involving the stuff of nightmares.

    Yes. This diet, if it is daily fare, is sub-optimal.
    No. It is not even close to abusive.

    My wife has a long career in education so I am familiar with the "official" definition of child abuse.

    Of course there isn't immediate physical/psychological damage from eating this stuff occasionally.

    If a habit, this will most likely lead to a lifetime of obesity and poor health, i.e., long term impact.

    And of course online posting of a child's photo for the purpose of shaming them and their family will "most likely" have no negative impact at all?

    Not part of my discussion point.

    Don't think the kid should have been part of the picture, but that doesn't negate the point, this type of food, served on a regular basis, for a child's lunch, will most likely impact their long term health.
  • Theoldguy1
    Theoldguy1 Posts: 2,497 Member
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    PAPYRUS3 wrote: »
    g1m0y4pzo8ha.jpg0katyxh4uwsr.jpg

    These are typical lunches I see on my students consume everyday.

    Curious if you are concerned or not at all?

    Close to child abuse if the same kids are eating like that every day.

    I have done years of child care. And gone through actual child abuse cases. Involving the stuff of nightmares.

    Yes. This diet, if it is daily fare, is sub-optimal.
    No. It is not even close to abusive.

    My wife has a long career in education so I am familiar with the "official" definition of child abuse.

    Of course there isn't immediate physical/psychological damage from eating this stuff occasionally.

    If a habit, this will most likely lead to a lifetime of obesity and poor health, i.e., long term impact.

    If one doesn't like the term child abuse for this substitute child neglect.

    If leaving your infant in their car seat all weekend and not changing their diaper - resulting in a combination diaper rash and bedsore - (from one of the actual cases I testified in) doesn’t constitute neglect, then feeding your child a hot dog and some sugary yoghurt definitely doesn’t.

    (the parents did lose custody a year later, after even worse…)

    Don't really give a *kitten* what the court calls neglect. Feeding a child that crap on a regular basis is neglect in my book and the book of anyone that has any common sense.

    ::shrug::

    Personal opinion that this food is unhealthy doesn’t make it neglect.

    As has been pointed out here already:
    1) We don’t know what these children eat at home.
    2) Posting this picture without parental permission is a big problem.
    3) It’s food. And enough of it.
    4) Shaming parents who are very likely doing their best under very difficult circumstances is really not OK.

    Check what the CDC and USDA has to say about this type of food on a regular basis.

    The scientists working for those organizations are smarter than anyone posting on here about nutrition. No knock to anyone on here, just fact.