Snacks and pre-schools on the Peoria.com Forums - Page 3

While your kitchen might be very clean and the eggs you use in your child's cupcakes were purchased yesterday, many of your child's classmates are not so fortunate.

My children always want to help make treats for their birthday and see it as a really cool thing.

It's not a personal attack on you, but a protective act for your child. You honestly wouldn't believe me if I told you about the things I've seen in my student's homes.

If you want to make a "personal" happy birthday treat, do an artsy fartsy craft with a pencil for each kid.

Personally, I'm a teacher and I don't send anything anymore. There is way too much for the teacher to try and fit in to the school day without including my kid's birthday.

It's way more special that we do a private, family celebration afterschool.

A treat occasionally at grandma's (heheheh, did someone just say "grandma"?) is great. What a parent chooses to feed their child is up to them. But a school should be an example of learning, not just books, but health. No PE and processed snacks...well, apparently we are doomed to ANOTHER generation of kids with ADULT diabetes. Diane, just give up. Get out the lard and plop it on her hips, thighs, and belly now.

You're getting very sleepy...you have no control...you've lost control of your children...they have succumbed to a world of McDonald's and Mr. Donut and Twinkies (gross! Do you know what is in a Twinkie? Do you know what Donuts are fried in? Do you know what the cows that McD buys look like? Blah)


And yes, I speak from experience here...I have fried donuts and threw up afterword, and my great uncle's neighbor sold some cows to McD's)

When you send your child to a private school, you get what you get.

My interpretation of the initial post was "do you sympathize".

No, I don't.

It's more important to be an integral part of their early learning, I stayed home. I didn't want anyone to infringe on our family's way of doing things. We sacrificed. When it was time, we found a cooperative preschool. Part of the deal was that the parents had to volunteer and provide snack and work as an "aid" in the classroom. I was there...I saw what they did with my kid(s).

Stay home. Don't stay home. Find a place that works for you. What is the point of getting pissed off about snack? Use some common sense.

Instead of Oreos, ask these questions: What kind of early reading cirruculum does your preschool have? How much time is devoted to free play? Do they teach proper handwashing technique? If your preschool is teaching handwriting, are your sure that their handwriting cirriculum is comensurate with what your public school will teach? Does your child know his/her address and phone number?

Trust me, if you are teaching good food choices at home, your children will take those choices with them for life.

And hopefully they won't call the people that disagree with them bi-polar. It really is just freakin' preschool.

And yes, I am a teacher.

Uh, if she wasn't 'involved', how would she know her daughter had an Oreo or that the school PUSHED it on her. Next it will be drugs..."Oh, your child is hyperactive. She needs drugs because we are too lazy to deal with her need to learn. We want all the kids to sit quietly all day."
And what's the crack about a "private" school?

I'm takin this one to the PM's!!

I'm completely confused.

I thought the thread was about sympathy regarding a preschool feeding a student a questionable snack. When I suggested and supported my assertion that maybe it wasn't as big a deal as we might think.... My first response even suggested looking at the situation in the grand scheme of things.

It's a matter of priorities.

Jimnjensmom puts a high priority on eating well, and that's her right as her kid's mom. I don't see anything wrong that.

Oh no! You posted a PM?? Yikes! Isn't that why they call them "Private Messages"? I know I won't be sending any PMs anymore if people post them!

I went back and read the post that started the thread. The question was.......

"ANY SYMPATHY?"

What the heck? A link to a bi-polar thing? That's not cool.

K' JimJensMom, you win. You took off your message to me. It would have been far more telling if you would have left it on.

You should raise hell will your private preschool.

Down with Oreos!

Here was the question:

"Any sympathy here??"

The real question was "Who thinks I'm right?"

I feel 100% certain that a family who places a large emphasis on snacking in or outside the home will have some very serious eating and control issues in about 10 years.

It's so late at night. And I have my own classrooms full of student I need to teach tomorrow. But I'm still focusing on this one stituation.

How about the series of books that start with "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Imagine you're the teacher and you're trying to make the book come alive...

Do you see where I'm going? That's how preschool teachers teach.

The rest of the series is:

"If You Give a Moose a Muffin"
"If You Give a Pig a Pancake"
"If You Give a Bear a Brownie"

etc...etc....etc....

You give a kid a cookie and what you get in return is a letter to the director of your program about how irresponsible you are for giving some little kid a cookie? What do you do to that child who freaks out because they can't have one??