A note left by a daycare worker in a child's lunchbox is raising new awareness about lunchbox-shaming.
Last week, a mom in Kingwood, Texas, left a little something special in her 5-year-old son’s lunchbox as he headed to daycare: a note asking workers at Rocking Horse Day Care to tell the boy she loved and missed him. But, as local news outlet KTRK reports, one of the boy’s carers — who has since been fired — instead scrawled a nasty response telling her to “put him on a diet and go away."
Instagram and Pinterest are teeming with lunchbox-ready recipes and strategies to transform picky eaters into pint-sized gourmands, but a number of factors can make that easier said than done.
“We’re giving our kids food issues by shaming them over each individual meal — especially when they’re 5 years old!” Powers says. “Food is so loaded in our culture. Cake is good when we eat it at a birthday party, but bad when we eat it at home. We’re ‘being good’ when we eat healthy and ‘being bad’ when we indulge in candy. Kids don’t understand this nuance — they just think they’re good or bad people depending on what they eat.
“Lunch is complicated,” Sole-Smith tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “Kids’ appetites are tough to predict because they change often with activity level and growth fluctuations. And lunch can be a pretty stressful meal — you’re in the cafeteria, it’s loud and crowded, it’s almost always too short and kids are easily distracted. For those reasons alone, it’s totally reasonable for parents to want to pack the ‘easy’ foods they know their kids will like so the food part of the meal isn’t an added stressor.
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