Theo has a tendency to not eat his lunch at school...and then be very grumpy due to low blood sugar when I pick him up. So when I nagged him about it for the umpteenth time, his cranky reply was, "Well, if you don't want me to come home with so much food left in my lunch bag, you should pack me a smaller lunch!"
Well, I suppose that's one solution. Although I hardly think the small three items that I pack him constitutes a big lunch....
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When my sister started school, my mother would send her off with a sandwich cut in quarters. After a while, Mom thought that she should stop treating Rachel like a baby and that my sister was really old enough to have her sandwich cut in half, so that's how Mom fixed her lunch.
After a few days, Rachel began coming home from school absolutely ravenous. At first Mom put it down to a growth spurt (Rachel was always very small so the possibility of growth was exciting), but Rachel didn't grow and her appetite didn't abate.
Finally Mom sat down to talk with her. She asked whether Rachel was eating her lunch, and my sister burst out, "Yes! But you used to give me four sandwiches, and now you inly give me two!"
Mom went back to cutting Rachel's sandwiches in quarters, and Rachel went back to having a reasonable snack after school.
The minds of kids …
Ruth
Ha! That's a great story!
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