The mum was taken back at her daughter's words, blurted out out so fast that she found it a mite tricky to understand. Her little girl was upset and worried for her mum. it was a strange feeling for an adult to hear that she was in trouble. It instantly took her back to her school days. How ridiculous, she was the parent, not that vulnerable little girl at the mercy of cranky teachers.
In the car, the mum heard the reason for her daughter's concern. Too many home made chocolate chip biscuits in one week was not acceptable! I have overdone it. That is right, chocolate cake and biscuits are a sometimes food. The list of food suggestions clearly stated heathy biscuits only.
The note in her daughter's lunch box was clear and to the point, 'chocolate chip biscuits are not a nutritious option, please do not pack them in your child's lunchbox.' The mum immediately felt a mixture of shame and anger.
Really, a teacher has the right to tell me what my child eats at school? I cook for my child to minimise fats, sugar preservatives and flavours in her diet. This week she asked for choc chip bikkies and I thought that was fine. And I cook with the 70% dark chocolate too!
The teacher has conveniently forgotten the muesli bars, the vegan slice, the Anzac biscuits, the banana cake! And my child is on a very healthy diet at home. Do I go on Facebook as my friend suggests? Do I complain to the principal? Or do I ignore because I do not want my daughter to be on this teacher's radar?
Confronting the teacher is probably about my hurt ego. I have to let go. This grade 3 teacher is not as friendly or as chatty as the other teachers. I am already concerned about her quality of teaching. Don't sweat over the small stuff, wait until there is a classroom issue, something that really needs my intervention.
Cheers and Blessings
It seems the teacher didn’t look at the whole lunch. I didn’t know teachers noted what the children were eating unless they didn’t have anything to eat.
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You would think that this would be the reason redheadpei, but ever since school have become 'green and healthy' there has been a blitz on children's lunch boxes. Schools write their own policies and some teachers believe they have the right to dictate to parents. We hear of horror stories now and then. Thankfully they are not common.
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Oh my word... I've been the teacher and the mother so I know... It's not good either way. Teachers try as mothers do. Sorry it happened.
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Hi @dkkarolien, that is so nice of you to say this. I know that there are very good caring teachers in schools and nice supportive parents. But now and then this kind of thing happens. It is a learning for everyone.
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It's a pleasure. It's unfortunate that as many parents and teachers try their best there are also the parents and teachers both that doesn't really care and I know from a mom's perspective it's hard to know whether the teacher really cares or is just being difficult but schools often imposes rules on us that we have to
impose liking it, agreeing with it or not. And man I love a chocolate biccie.. 😂
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Nothing nicer than good dark chocolate in a bikkie. You are very right dkkarolien, there are rules imposed up us as mums whether we like or not. but we do have control over how we choose to handle any tricky situation. i only have admiration to the many good teachers out in school land.
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We have had the same issues at former schools and I ignore it. I do not need to explain why my kid gets the food I give. I simply gave it again. Chocolate itself is healthy.
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Hi @wakeupkittyk, I like your style and so true. Parents have a right to feed their kids. The real concern teacher need to have is when kids do not lunches.
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Oh no! You should be able to put into the lunch box whatever you and your child want.
I would have been really upset, and my Mum would have been angry at the teacher back when I was in school, but they didn't do things like that back then.
Is it the school regulations that do not want kids to have anything sweet at all? I hear about similar things from all over. Probably regulations from the government? It's getting a bit crazy nowadays with the schools butting into private things.
Hope you can talk to the teacher about it.
Have a pleasant day in any case! ;-)
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Hi @catlady.natascha, The green school policy came in a number of years ago as the government decided that it needed to be seen in the fight against obesity in children. We all know that the home has the most influence and it is really up ;to parents.
This is not me in this story, I have many stories in my memory banks from 30 years of working in the Education system in Queensland.
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