<p>Okay, so today was the first day of school. I have an 8th grader now. He told me his lunch is scheduled for a bit after 1 p.m. this year. Doesn’t sound good to me. I don’t care if the 8th graders are the “seniors” of the school, and they can be hungry a bit longer. There is no opportunity for a snack or anything. I am trying to figure out how big (and healthy) of a breakfast I can give him now. Which got me to thinking…are you still babying your babies? Are you purchasing their favorite cereal, not because it’s a bargain, a good healthy choice, or anything like that…but just because they love, (only an example of where I am going with this topic)? Come on…share :)</p>
<p>My daughter just left for her freshman year of college last week. One of the sadder empty nest moments was when I threw out a half-full box of her favorite cereal (Peanut Butter Captain Crunch, which nobody else in the family can stand). That cereal would be stale by the time she comes home for her first break.</p>
<p>But you can bet that a couple of days before the break, I will be buying a new box of that dreadful cereal.</p>
<p>I do the same sort of thing for her older brother, who is now a college senior. He is the only person in the family who drinks diet cola. Before each of his college breaks, “1 case diet cola” goes on the shopping list. He probably has no idea that I do this just for his benefit (I doubt he knows that he’s the only cola drinker in the family). But it just seems natural to do it.</p>
<p>I sent him to college with a giant Sams container of Animal Crackers.</p>
<p>My husband and oldest D yelled at me for cutting my baby D’s chicken off the bone for her yesterday before putting it on her plate. “Baby” D is 12 & just started junior high (7th grade) today! Wahhhhh! I can’t help it - she’ll always be my baby. =(</p>
<p>they can’t snack at recess? that is really odd and not healthy, especially for some kids with health issues</p>
<p>I wonder about that policy///</p>
<p>My high school son has a pillow, shaped like a fish, that he has kept and slept on, with, under, or around, since the 2nd grade. The fish, needless to say, has long been gutted and skinned, and I 'd very much like to toss it it. It’s a mess. He won’t hear of it. Touch his fish pillow and you risk his wrath. But I have to admit, seeing a big strapping teenage guy still clinging to his 2nd grade fish pillow is sort of nice. He’s still a kid at heart, and I’ll let him be one for a while.</p>
<p>quopoe, my daughter always had her lunches at odd hours - 10:38 a.m. one year, then after 1 p.m. the next. Teachers knew this was hard for the kids, so they let them snack in study hall. She always carried some dried fruit, ww crackers, and other ‘quiet’ snacks in her backpack.</p>
<p>I don’t know that this is babying, but I am thinking of all the “favorites” I can cook, bake, etc. for him when he comes home at Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>My D couldn’t find Nutella near her campus, so I just mailed her a big jar from Germany.</p>
<p>I baby Zoosergirl terribly and am grateful that she lets me! She’s on day two of classes in her freshman year of college. When she was home and working, I’d often pack up her dinner and bring it to her at work. I made her dorm bed “the mommy way” so she would be cozy, and then I sent her a care package yesterday of cute pens because that’s part of her personal style.</p>
<p>"they can’t snack at recess? that is really odd and not healthy, especially for some kids with health issues</p>
<p>I wonder about that policy///"</p>
<p>We don’t have recess here at all, and some kids have lunch at 8 am and others have it as late as 2 pm.</p>
<p>Zoosermom and quopoe: somewhere between the beginning of school and that 1 PM lunch, there’s a teacher who also needs a snack and won’t mind if the kids scarf down a protein bar. Encourage your kids to find that teacher. (I was that teacher when I had a class that met from 10:30 to 12:15. My rule was: leave no trace of your healthy snack and it ends in five minutes. I wouldn’t allow chips or sodas. Lots of kids took to bring two sandwiches, one (usually PBJ) for the first five minutes of my class and one for later.)</p>
<p>I just drove to Portland and back in two days so that I could take my daughter some stuff (clothes, sheets, the dresser from her room)… of course the babying (loving) never stops, we’re parents. (And I stopped on the way and bought my son lunch at a carnivore restaurant… it was also a sausage/butcher shop. Great roast beast sandwich.)</p>
<p>Waffles for breakfast on the first day of school. What will I do next year when he’s gone?</p>
<p>My baby boy (a high school junior) is a strapping 6 foot tall soccer star who still likes his “back tickles” at bed time and he still likes to talk to me after his room is dark. He’s never asked me to stop and I’m not about to volunteer.</p>
<p>He also likes how I wrap his turkey slice and lettuce in a soft taco with mustard for his after school snack.</p>
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<p>Who still has recess in middle school?</p>
<p>if not recess, all middle school or high schools have at least a 10-15 minute break sometime around 10am. so usually you can snack around then to hold you over till lunch.</p>
<p>No recess here after 4th grade, and no formal lunch period in high school unless the kid deliberately schedules one. It’s weird, dumb, and counterproductive, but there seems to be a badge of honor associated with not scheduling a lunch (as in, no one is considered to have that fabled “most rigorous” curriculum if they also have lunch).</p>
<p>However, kids can bring lunch or snacks to all classrooms except science labs, art studios, and music rooms. (I guess because no one can really play the tuba while eating a peanut butter sandwich.) Individual teachers have the right to prohibit eating in their classrooms, but almost none do.</p>
<p>Also, the first lunch period of the day begins at 9:30 AM.</p>
<p>When I’m in the market, I’ll pick up shrimp and avocado sushi for my oldest, even though it’s not on the list, because she always likes it. But yeah, she’s off to college, I’m going to have to stop doing that.</p>
<p>Happy here to discover I’m not the only mom that packed food for my D’s summer job! My grocery list is now missing lots of items that only she eats, too. But I’m already formulating my first care package list.</p>
<p>And I did overnight, this morning, the calculator no one thought to pack!</p>
<p>BOYSX3! Your post could have been written by me!! Just last night my 6’ junior came into my room before bedtime (my bedtime, that is, not his!) and asked for a “tickly back rub”. My H rolls his eyes but of course I’ll never say no. How much longer will I have? Yes, I baby him. So what?!</p>
<p>As for the snacks, when my son had a late lunch in middle school, I bought him a big bag of pretzel rods and put them in a ziploc bag. He stuck them on the shelf of his locker, and whenever the mood would strike he’d grab one on the way to class. It worked great for him.</p>