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Too many parents do not/cannot meet the needs of their children. Feeding breakfast is just one more example. Yes, all parents should make sure their children have a healthy breakfast, but many don't even when they can. We need to address the problem through educating the parents, but in the mean time, why not feed the children and reap the benefits!
Let CPS 'educate' the parents when they are reported for neglect. I'm pretty sure NOT FEEDING the kids is neglect.
By providing a program ensuring that the parents don't have to feed the kids how exactly are the parents learning that they need to feed their own kids? This sort of logic escapes me...we want the parents to be more responsible so let's remove the burden of responsibility and accountability...??? Huh??
Let CPS 'educate' the parents when they are reported for neglect. I'm pretty sure NOT FEEDING the kids is neglect.
By providing a program ensuring that the parents don't have to feed the kids how exactly are the parents learning that they need to feed their own kids? This sort of logic escapes me...we want the parents to be more responsible so let's remove the burden of responsibility and accountability...??? Huh??
I think you'd have to go quite a while 'not feeding the kids' before it would count as neglect, unfortunately.
The truth is, some parents won't be bothered to make their kids breakfast, whether or not school breakfast is being offered. Breakfast at school will at least ensure some of those kids will be getting something. Not serving school breakfast won't make parents take more responsibility, it will just punish the kids whose parents are already irresponsible.
Lumbollo I couldn't open your links. It was a problem on my end.
I'm wondering how they can provide a good breakfast to the children & also accomodate all the kids with different food allergies. I don't know much about preparing food for kids with allergies but I'm thinking that cross contamination might be a problem. Kids sharing their food & not knowing that their friends could get sick would also be a problem too.
Honestly..school breakfast isn't healthy or a nutritious way to start your day. Sugary cereals on top of toast and yogurt that is neon colored and really isn't yogurt but sugar plus flavored milk with more sugar than a Coke is no way to start your day.
I think the school food system needs to be revamped completely my kids won't eat school foods on any regular basis. I was shocked my daughter said they made her get cereal and toast...carbs carbs carbs that are not even whole grain....
Seems like the food choices for lunch aren't all that great either. I ate there one time, and things looked pretty nasty
If you remember "Supersize Me", there was a section where they talk about making tasty, nutritious, and wholesome lunches for the schools. And there is little to any increase in the cost over the stuff offered now.
We are with CMS. Don't know about other districts' foods.
Nope..lunch, breakfast...no thanks. It is gross and unhealthy. Lunch ladies don't cook anymore (does anyone really??) they reheat. Not to mention they want them to have six to eleven servings of bread or bread items...that is a lot so they try to pack it in I guess..like toast and cereal for breakfast...I have always taught my kids and been taught that you don't need 2 starches??
So I guess like the article says just because parents have money or can afford it doesn't mean they give the kid breakfast so just because the school offers food stuff doesn't mean it is real food.
Yeah, it used to be one starch, a protein, and all the vegetables you wanted. The protein rarely was just meat. Usually was a bean dish or similar where meat, if it could be had, was nothing more than a condiment. Kids if they were good would get a chicken leg or a pork chop on the weekends. No food pyramids, charts, computers, USDA (which is highly influenced by corporations) and FoodTV needed to make decisions on healthy eating. I grew up eating this way and still eat this way now but to do it, I do cook almost everything we eat.
Most of the rest of the world still eats this way. Travel overseas for a while and the first thing you notice upon getting off the plane on return is how fat everyone is in America. In fact it's a bit shocking. Now it seems that Lincoln county is going to give these bad eating habits away to all kids in the county, and this is what they will take with them as they grow up. It's really a shame especially since it is being made possible by the federal government.
The best thing for a kid's breakfast would be a menu with old fashioned oatmeal, plain yogurt, fresh cherries, almonds - that sort of combo. I raised my family that way and my son still eats that way and has never had a problem with his weight/BMI. But that takes a a mommy who plans ahead or a lunchroom w/ actual cooks in it to stand over big pots, stirring for a while, lol.
Did anyone see the show with Jamie Oliver when he went into the school in W.Virginia to try and change the way food is prepared? He really got some people mad especially the lunch ladies. I think it was called Food Revolution. It started in England.
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It was a problem on my end.
