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This morning the mom of my dcg5 has decided to start bringing her lunch because dcg complained about having to eat green beans yesterday. So not only is there a note with this bowl of food I'm supposed to warm up for her for lunch but now she wants me to give dcg morning snack as well. I've never served morning snack. Breakfast is between 8-8:45, lunch is between 11-11:45 and afternoon snack is at 2. I know if I serve her a morning snack all the other kids will want one and no one will want to eat lunch. So sorry mom not going to happen. We'll see what happens at pickup this afternoon
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Do you normally allow kids to bring their own lunches?
I could never allow that as I provide lunch (and snacks) and I serve ALL the kids the SAME thing.
I know some providers have parents supply lunches but I was just curious what your normal routine was...
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I have never had a parent bring a lunch before and was thrown off by it. I always serve a main type of food and a veggie and a fruit. Her bowl looks like it has pasta and sauce and cheese in it. It will be tough at lunch trying to explain why she has something different than everyone else. She usually eats well for me. Her dad has said she eats better here than at home so I don't really know whats up with the mom. We'll have to talk at pickup today. And the mom sent nothing for her other kids.Comment
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I had a DCM that did this occasionally and every time I sent it home untouched til she finally got the hint that I was serious about no outside food. This DCM would send 2 bags of chips, candy, fruit snacks, chocolate milk, and cheese sandwich (plus dcb was supposedly lactose intolerant
). Definitely not something I feed the other kids and it would just cause issues so he never got it.
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OP are you on the food program?Comment
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Not at this time I'm not but I do follow a lot of the guidelines. I try to make sure we have very healthy lunches. Every once in a while on a Friday when I have less kids we might have a fun lunch. I think this bowl will stay in the fridge and I'll give it to mom at pickup and tell her sorry but all kids eat the same thing.Comment
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I was just thinking you could use the food program as an excuse as to why you won't allow DCG to bring her own meals/snacks....
If you are licensed, you could always say that you have to serve everyone the same....
Or you could just say to mom that it is just way too difficult to manage the issues bringing her own food creates with the others.
The child is certainly not going to starve if she skips eating a full lunch at your house (if she doesn't like something) and the parents can just make sure she gets a good healthy and hearty dinner.
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do you manage to say/type/think these things with a straight face?
I'm being a bit facetious, of course, but we all know that parents rarely feed their kids as well as we would like or they lead us to believe
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I know for a fact they do not eat well at home. For a while they kept a notebook of all dcg ate at home and I would write in what she had eaten here. From breakfast all the way til 10 pm at home it was nothing but juice, spagetti o's, hotdogs, chicken nuggets, cake, ice cream, pizza... the healthiest things she ate was mashed potatoes and gravy.Comment
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Oh, trust me....I am laughing while I type because I KNOW all too well that what a parent SAYS and what a parent DOES is two completely different things....
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However, I do what I need to do on my watch and the parents can do whatever they need to do on their watch....just so long as their demands don't bleed onto my watch.
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