Posted on 08/23/2012 4:47:13 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda
Just my opinion.
You’re welcome.
And how much of that food being tossed in the garbage is being paid for by the taxpayer? Went to our kids’ school tonight to get the overview for the coming year and all of the administration is really pushing to get those free/reduced lunch forms filled out even if you think you don’t qualify because they get money from the “federal government” for every kid that is on it. It makes me sick. If my husband made half of what he does (and there was a time in the not so distant past he did), I wouldn’t do it. I really respect the director of our school, but that whole thing makes me angry. Unless there are some really exceptional circumstances you should be able to provide a damn sandwich for your kid to eat. But everyone’s got a frickin’ cell phone that they can’t get their face out of. How many of those getting free/reduced lunches for their kids are smoking cigarettes and doing all kinds of things they don’t need to do, but they can’t send their kid with a lunch or pay $2.25 to get one from the school.
“You aren’t leaving the table till you finish evey bit of xxxx!”
I don’t agree with that.
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I think that was the point I was making.
In the annals of bad parenting, I put broccoli in front of my daughter that hated it. She refused to eat it. I said to her, “but I thought it was your favorite food.” After a few minutes of argument, she decided that she loved broccoli. I guess I got my money’s worth out of my psych classes, which makes me want to buy a lot of tin foil and make hats.
Oh, I’m sorry, thank you!
Oh, I’m sorry, thank you!
I WAS ALLOWED to have anything I wanted. And what I wanted was 1-2 pounds of chocolate per day plus the most fatty, greasy foods in existence.
When I finally quit this was “the usual” for lunch. The guys at the diner all had my order memorized: 1.5 foot Philly steak, double meat, triple cheese, fried mushrooms, mayo, an extra-large side of inch-thick onion rings, a whole styrofoam cup full of molten cheddar cheese as a dip (by special request) and an entire 8” mini cheesecake or brownie. It's a delicious meal but not something to have every day.
My parents enabled my addiction and never said a word about obesity. They even tried to make up excuses after my heart gave out.
Most of the food tossed in the garbage is paid for by the taxpayer. It is not hard to qualify for at least reduced-price lunches. Apparently, if a school can get to 50% free or reduced-price lunches, it opens them up to a whole lot of government cheese.
In my town, the high schoolers are allowed to go off campus for lunch. I drove by the other day, and it looked like the entire student body was headed to Subway.
Perhaps the "back of the cooler" rule at the school is to stifle the imposition of food regulations. Government employees who may follow up on such matters are only going through the motions, out of sight, out of mind. Maybe they won't bother checking the cartons at the back of the cooler.
My parents enabled my addiction and never said a word about obesity."
Well, there's your issue. My daughter wasn't taken to fast food restaurants. I cooked healthy meals at home. If she wanted more than a few cookies, she was told she'd had enough. I didn't keep snack food out of the house and I didn't make it forbidden, but I was a responsible parent. If you tell a kid they can't have a candy bar, they'll go crazy to get one. By not taking my daughter to fast food restaurants growing up, she didn't know that she was missing anything. When she was about 6, she spotted a McDonalds one evening while we were in the car. I told her one of the few things that was barely nutritious was a vanilla milkshake. She was excited by the novelty of stopping, so she got a milk shake. It was made very clear to hear growing up that fast food was ridiculously unhealthy. She prefers burgers I make at home over anything she can get out. It's about responsible parenting and a basic understanding of psychology. You seem to have missed both my points.
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