Shamelessly Stealing This From Another Board

[Sugar Magnolia]

My worst was iced tea in the baby's bottle.

Laurel

Root beer in the baby bottle!::

[BabyMonkeys]

16 month old came in with coffee in her baby bottle and a bag of ramen noodles for lunch.

[Childminder]

Cheetos are actually creditable on the food program as are corn chips.

[My3cents]

But I can't resist. I've been on daycare boards since 98 so it's rare to see a thread I haven't seen before. This one cracked me up.

Question

What is the worst "breakfast" or food a kid brought in the first thing in the morning?

The two that made me go WHA? And made me rotflmfao were... a six month old baby came in with a bottle of Mountain Dew (first runner up) and the winner winner chicken dinner was a kid walking in with a bowl and a spoon. When the provider asked what was in the bowl the Dad said....

wait for it....

SUGAR! happyface.

No need to add in those pesky carbs... just a big bowl of sugar to start your day!

I don't allow food in the house so I can't even come close to those two.

What's your best breakfast evah?

coffee milk, mostly coffee
pop cycles

[melilley]

A 1.5 yo came in eating a Jolly Rancher, dcm let him eat it in the car! When they got here, she had to pry it out of his mouth and then she had the nerve to tell dcb to ask me if he could have it here..uh, no..He couldn't even talk yet.

Another one is a cake pop, a frosted cake pop. Dcm said that dcb had texture aversion issuss and that's one thing he would eat.

[Happily_wed]

I have only had one child that brought their own food and that didn't last long. He would show up eating a cereal bar or pop tart for breakfast at a year old. I would wait until mom left, throw it away and let him eat whatever hot breakfast we were eating.

Two of the four that I have now have a huge cup of chocolate or strawberry milk every morning right before they get here. And for a while they would bring Little Debbies and tell me that daddy or mommy said that they could have it for breakfast. After me leaving it in the diaper bag a few times they stopped doing that. Last week one of them showed up with a kool-aid jug at 7am and chugged it down before I could get it away from her!

Meals are part of my daily fee and I don't really ever offer the option of them bringing their own. I do allow the kids a cookie or something at times but only for snack and only if they have eaten their meals that day. I serve kool-aid too during the day at times. Every single parent I have ever had has told me to give it to their kids. And we do a lot of ice water during the day.

[crazydaycarelady]

I had one dcm who would ask her daughter if she wanted "fruit" and then hand her fruit snacks. Yeah lady, those AREN'T fruit!

Also years ago dcb came everyday with a bottle of grape Kool-Aid. All his front teeth were rotten and had to be replaced at $500 pop!

[Sunshine74]

Same dcg I talked about above came in eating a freeze pop this morning.

[SilverSabre25]

I would have to say that the very worst thing was a child who came in on her very first day with me carrying a bag of Burger King (mom was a manager) and we had JUST the day before gone over the "no outside food" policy. Girl didn't even eat it but it tipped off a HUGE fuss with some of the other kids who saw it. A few days later the family got angry because I was taking my 1 week maternity leave (they signed up knowing full well that I was nine months pregnant and less than a week until my due date and that I would be closing for a week for leave--stupidest thing ever), pulled the girl, and stiffed me $50.

[mountainside13]

coffee......?????? was that kid just out of control??

Yes, coffee every morning without fail. He is out of control when his mom picks up and at home but he does great for me.

[nannyde]

Can we all agree that a bowl of sugar and a spoon is the winner winner chicken dinner?

happyfacehappyfacehappyfacehappyface

If you knew how much that made me laugh you would have some insight of how much I badly need some therapy.

[Papa]

Bringing in the food

I too get grumpy when parents bring kids with food, first off if they want to feed them at home OK but when the bring a bag of cereal and a drink I tell the kid to give it to mom or dad, my wife who has the daycare tells the kid to go eat at the table. Then as I cook over a hot stove breakfast then I have to throw theirs away it makes me angry. I tell the kids that there are children in other country's with out food and had one DCK tell me to mail it to them, he was five.
God bless you ladies for what you do

[Alwaysgreener]

Little off topic, As a foster parent, I had a child that would get the after school bagged meal. (some places do this to make sure kids have dinner) He had just came into care and the agency was bring him and his siblings home from school while they worked on getting busing set up.
Anyways, my dh and I got dinner ready as we were waiting (keeping dinner warm) for the kids to arrive. The worker was late and started to worry me. When the arrive the kids come in with McD bags (which they only ate half of, bc they were so hungry) and drinks (mtn dew). They were complaining that the were hungry, so I stopped and got them something (for the 30 min drive?). I picked up the meal bag from school and let her know that she was played (but not in those words). They had eaten the pudding and crackers out of the bag and tried to throw the rest away (fruit and sandwich).

[MrsSteinel'sHouse]

I have had a kido with pixie sticks.. so sugar and food coloring but yes straight sugar in a bowl takes the cake... pixie sticks are more like convenience food, they had to make the bowl of sugar themselves.

I once had a 7 yr old that came in with a bottle of Mountain Dew every morning for breakfast for his migraines. I do live in Appalachia!

[Unregistered]

One DCM was more worried about the 2 HOURS it took to do her hair and makeup that she'd run out of time to get them ready and out the door. So when DCB(he was 2) would fight her on getting ready she'd give him ****ers, cookies, or candy to bribe him out the door. I told her MULTIPLE times no outside food to which she responded with "I don't want him to fight with me so just take it away once I leave." Seriously?! This dcm also went to mcdonalds EVERY night to get him his chicken nuggets and fries. He refused to eat 95% of the food I served because they never made him try new things. If he wanted a bag of Cheetos for lunch, that's what they gave him. That little boy has so many issues and it will just get worse and worse with the way this mom let's him control their lives. She is also the mom who won't let them play and get dirty. I gave the kids playdoh once and he cried because he didn't want to touch it because mom would never let him do anything sensory or messy.