School lunches...

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Registered: 03-26-2003
School lunches...
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Thu, 12-02-2004 - 9:33am

This is being discussed rather heatedly on another board and I thought it might liven things up since we are soooooo sloooooow.


Are you allowed to eat with your kids? Can you bring in restaurant food? Any guidelines on what you can pack for your kids? Does the school have vendors? Is the school lunch program considered a necessary evil or a money maker for the school?


If there are guidelines on what you can pack, does this make you mad? Does it make you think they are taking

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Registered: 10-09-2004
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 9:51am

"My younger son's elementary school (public) is pretty good. They do these stupid reading incentive programs where the prizes are pizza parties though, and I have voiced my opinion on more than one occasion that I think that reading incentive programs are stupid and we just opt out of them."

Are you against any type of incentive programs for reading, or are you against food rewards? I don't think there is anything wrong with trying to encourage children to read, but I don't know how I feel about food rewards. Our country has such a problem w/obesity, and I don't know that I want my child to think of food as reward/punishment. I want him to learn to eat when he's hungry.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 9:53am
Oh, so the willing is now complaining about being forced.
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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 9:53am

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Understandable.


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But its not as if the food is given right then. They are given coupons which then can use when they ARE hungry.

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 9:56am

No, do you know what subjects and verbs are? The subject of the sentence wasn't ME being forced .. it was the subject of the conversation that is being forced.


Gee, I may not have learned Venn diagrams in first grade, but I did learn about subjects and verbs.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 10:08am
No one can force a subject of conversation to occur. A conversation can't occur without a person, and you are that willing, but whining, participant.
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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 10:11am

I haven't whined a bit. And yes a subject can be forced.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 10:23am

"Will someone debate with me about kids making good choices?" Doubtful, because as is perfectly obvious, every kid does at some times and not at others. What is there to debate?

I'm sorry to hear that you are now suffering from delusions. I certainly haven't said anything remotely resembling awful vending machines ruining my child's life. As my son is not in a school with a vending machine, nor would I prohibit him from buying something from it if he was, I couldn't even complain about it even if I did feel that it were possible for his life to be ruined by a vending machine. (I suppose if one fell on him. . . .) Nevertheless, you cannot be, and have not been, forced to participate in a conversation on any subject you do not wish to discuss, and I'm glad you're finally getting my point on that and indicating that you will stop discussing what you do not wish to discuss.

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 10:32am

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That's what I said in the first place, and was told that kids will give into temptation and buy the sodas in excess and wouldn't do so in moderation. I didn't say it ... other posters did.


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Of course not. I was exaggerating, just like other posters were when they said sodas cause death.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 10:46am
well yes I did -
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The one bad thing was I got chemical burns on my legs from their hot tub - so they hurt for the last two days... but other than that it was so fun.
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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 10:55am
I don't like to give material rewards (toys, money, food) for kids to do what they are supposed to be doing anyway. I think that, for some kids, it encourages a "What will you give me to do that" kind of mentality. I've seen it. You have to keep upping the ante in order to get them to do anything with that kind of kid -- I think that ideally you need to work on the kid's internal motivation structure -- make them want to do something because it's the right thing to do; because it's self-rewarding; etc. I especially don't like food rewards.

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