What About When You Eat?

[blessed mom]

I eat in the same room that several of the kids are in, and the other kids are in a room connected to the kitchen (with no doors). I am not quiet at all. ::

I can be pretty loud around the preschoolers but my two babies are super light sleepers! Example: I get on the computer and they hear the typing on the keyboard...instant awake!! Ack!! LOL I only have control of one sleeping environment so I'm assuming parents keep their rooms very quiet!

Sigh, I don't mind telling them to go play I didn't get to eat (baby fussy etc) but my one child literally begs and begs and begs and then if I do get him to go play he sits across the room staring at me. I feel horrible eating in front of him like that.

[blessed mom]

I can't give them more food than the food program allows, so even if I wanted to ... can't!

I'd tell him once, "Go play, please!" and then IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE. Walk away if you have to. Keep walking away. Pretend you don't see him/hear him when he is asking for more food when it isn't his mealtime/snack time.

How come you can't give more food? The food program allows you to give more you just can't claim it.

[daycarediva]

I eat breakfast with the kids, right at the (little) table. The kids love it and parents get a kick out of it, and it gets them to LEAVE when they drop off. I eat a snack when they do (usually not the same thing as I don't eat any grains/my only carbs are from veg & 1 fruit/day) I eat lunch when they go down for nap as that's never the same. I eat PM snack with them and dinner after they leave.

If I need to eat (or my kids) I just say "It's ______ snack/lunch time. Your's was/is ______"


They also need to learn that meal times are at meal times, and that's that. When they move on to school there is ZERO time for grazing/snacking so I think it's important NOT to feed them all day, everyday.