Making kids eat at the same times that adults do is just cruel. Kids get hungry when they are hungry; of COURSE they throw temper tantrums when they do not get fed immediately after asking for food! People ought to be fed when they get hungry, PERIOD, not whenever it is convenient for Mom.
shareMaybe if we are talkng about infants.. but my 7 yr old son can wait until dinnertime.. feeding on demand is ridiculous.. my son will not starve to death if he has to wait an hour. This is such a ridiculous comment.
i agree with the OP. some kids have blood sugar issues. i did and still do get severe headaches and in cruddy moods when i am hungry. when kids are hungry, feed them. plain and simple.
shepherds we shall be; for thee my Lord for thee...In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti
a lot of people miss the point about meal times... It is not about feeding your family it is about being with your family. Eating together brings the family together and has them touch base on how their days were, for example.
I think if you are making dinner and your kid is starving -- like actually looking weak, and dinner is still a while away... it's okay to give him or her a couple of carrots or something. I do have a problem with people who just nosh all the live long day.
To the OP... What about kids who are apparently always hungry??? There is a girl in my class who claims of her tummy rumbling all the time when she does nothing but graze anyway. I have a diabetic girl in my classroom so I make it a point to have some food stashed away in the room, just in case. We are also on the fourth floor and often times some kids arrive way after breakfst in school is over, and the school only makes a certain amount of breakfast bags. I just don't have the heart to send my kids (most are asthmatic) down five flights of stairs and then back up five flights of stairs just to eat.
The tummy rumbling girl... I have caught her stealing food so many times... Once the only Bimbo toast I was able to find was the double fiber kind... so I only gave the kids one slice. She hid behind my desk and ate like three while sitting on the floor. In order to teach her a lesson I refused bathroom to for her for about 20 minutes when she complained of stomach pain a few minutes later. She HAD to learn that you can't do what you want and get away with it when it backfires on you. In reality, I don't think she is hungry at all... I have constantly caught her chewing on other things that are non-food... like water bottle caps, thumb tacks... She has a baby brother at home (but about a year old) and I think she is regressing to the oral stage because the brother "seems" to be getting all the attention.
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You refused to let her go to the bathroom when she had a stomach ache? she could have had diarreah or had to throw up. You should be fired for that - assuming you are a teacher. That is abuse and cruelty and that would not stand if you did that to my child.
shepherds we shall be; for thee my Lord for thee...In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti
by the way, i hope to god that you're not a mother. people like you disgust me. a child is still a person. animals are still given rights to go to the bathroom. when they beg to go out, you let them out. to have a child hold it in when she was clearly sick is just disgusting. i'd like to know the name of the school or daycare you work at so i can inform them of the abuse.
shepherds we shall be; for thee my Lord for thee...In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti
phantoms...
1: I didn't ~refuse~ her to go to the bathroom... I let her go a few minutes later.
2: As I said BEFORE... she had stolen the food! This was after we had returned from lunch. A lunch she and most of my students receive for free. THe food she had stolen was double fiber, as I mentioned before. What did she think was gonna happen??
3: The food was for dire emergencies only, like when a child comes in too late for the bag breakfast handed out at school. The breakfast is free as well to all students because Bloomberg wants the students to start the say right. She had stolen it at 1:00pm.
4: I teach third grade and the girl was 8 years old. She was not 4 years old or anything like that.
5: She also has a tendency to lie. If she was telling the truth, then I had to actually show her and the others the story of "the little boy who cried wolf". None of my students can shut up enough for me to tell the story, anyway...
Abuse, huh?? The way you write your posts I wonder if you would last 5 minutes in the borough.
"Oh Thank you God! Thank you so BLOODY much!" Basil Fawlty
some parents are just control freaks. they should just give the kid some healthy snacks like carrots or an apple to hold them off til dinner. there is literally no reason to make the kid starve, and if the kid doesnt eat as much of their dinner as they normally would - who cares? its not like you filled them up on candy.
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