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I hadn’t actually planned on a follow up to last week’s lunch post (called Everything I Wish I’d Known About Kids Lunches), but then something upsetting happened at at lunch at my son’s camp…and I had approximately 1 million questions about it. So today I have that for you, plus answers to five more reader questions about lunch!
On the way home from camp last Tuesday, my son told me that one of the counselors forced him to finish his pizza. He told me he was already full and he didn’t want to, but they said he had to. And so he tried and took a few bites, but wound up so upset that he dropped it on the floor by mistake and so was (thankfully) allowed to throw it away.
I was so glad he knew to tell me.
But the question I kept getting over and over online when I shared this in my stories was a version of:
“This is all well and good, but wouldn’t you want an adult to make your kid eat more of their food if they had decided to only eat something like their cookies??”
Well, yes and no.
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I LOVE that you wrote that note and so appreciate you sharing it with us. It’s a gift for kids to have that agency over their intake of food and to be in touch with their natural hunger and fullness cues. As you said, most adults encouraging kids to eat more are well-intentioned but unaware of the negative impact it can have. Your kids are lucky they have you to advocate for them!
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