Laughed at for lunch

[FreshTart]

M got laughed at today for having a rice and veggie beef burrito (he's in grade 1). His older brother tried to defend him, but ended up making things worse by saying that good food helps you poop. :no: (They need social skills).

The irony is - the kid making fun was eating gold fish crackers and cheesies as his lunch!!

:cry: I don't mind them getting laughed at when they do something moronic, but not over healthy food.

[msbunnicula]

His older brother tried to defend him, but ended up making things worse by saying that good food helps you poop. :no: (They need social skills).


:lol: J is priceless!

Why were they making fun of M? Was it because it was veggie or just because it was different and weird?

Either way, kids can be cruel.

[FreshTart]

The boys said it was b/c the burrito had rice in it. Then M said it was rice and veggie beef, and then it went downhill.

I think he had a wonderful lunch -- burritio (white rice, veggie beef, salsa, white shell), oatmeal and whole wheat blueberry and walnut muffin, a kid's handful of cheese crackers, 1 orange cut in slices, an apple juice, and 1 white chocolate lindt chocolate (the little round ones with the cream).

J's lunch was even weirder, with a wholewheat bean burrito, but no one bothers to make fun of J b/c he doesn't seem to even notice.

[beth]

Aw, poor kid. Kids can alway find a way to pick on each other. When I was in second grade, this boy used to make fun of me for having darkish arm hair. I wouldn't care now of course, but it really hurt my feelings then. So I wore long sleeves every day. :( And I lived in Texas so it was super hot.

[marleah]

That lunch sounds so good! I wish I could have eaten that well when I was a kid.

[msbunnicula]

That lunch sounds so good! I wish I could have eaten that well when I was a kid.

I agree. I wish that I had a delicious lunch like that today!


They initially made fun of him because of the rice?! What's strange about rice?

[Seadolphin]

Don't most burritos have rice in them? Or has it been so long since I've eaten a non-veggie burrito that I don't even remember? But that burrito sounds delicious to me! Kids can be really cruel & make fun of e/o for really random stuff. Earlier in the year some of my students apparently made fun of one student for his lunch (traditional Asian food). I was furious that they treated him this way...needless to say after I had my talk w/them they never made those comments again!

[bethanie]

Madison gets lauged at for her nice thick eye brows, and for the fact that she doesn't watch BET (black entertainment television), and for all sorts of other things I'm sure she doesn't even tell me. Eyebrows are a big issue currently though, poor thing. They are drop dead gorgeous eyebrows.

She also sometimes gets laughed at for the lunch/snacks she takes in. Kids will make fun of other children for whatever strikes their fancy at the moment, they are very whimsical in this regard.

Lunch is a big deal though. I watched two children wolf down lunches made entirely of junk food today (one had a pb sandwich on white bread, and chips and two 'drinks'--you know the juice that isn't really juice)...the other had a sandwich on white bread, cheetoes, and one of those processed cheese/cracker things that humans simply should not consume, with a juice with coloring that could not possibly be obtained by any of the fruits in nature. What kills me is not that they love to eat this stuff, but that their parents actually send it as 'lunch'. I've talked to the kids myself about what to bring in lunches, and did manage to convince children (at least many of them) that they NEEDED to actually bring a fruit every day, not a canned fruit, or a fruit roll-up, but actual real fruit. Kids brought fruit in for weeks after that, and many of them ate the fruit. I think it's time for another talk with the kids about fruit. The thing is, they'll go home and tell mom, "Ms. Bethanie says I need to bring fruit in my lunch because it's healthy for me," and mom will comply out of guilt, but won't, consistently feed children a good diet. That really bothers me. Diet is SOOOO intrinsically interconnected with learning.

Anyhoo, sorry he got picked on. I've had to really drive home to Madison that people will pick on her, thus the importance of being comfortable with herself reall comes into play. It's hard though, sometimes kids are just downright mean.

B

[veggiewriter]

Aw, poor kid. Kids can alway find a way to pick on each other. When I was in second grade, this boy used to make fun of me for having darkish arm hair. I wouldn't care now of course, but it really hurt my feelings then. So I wore long sleeves every day. :( And I lived in Texas so it was super hot.

Oh, Beth, this reminds me of my former roommate! When she was little, a boy in her class told her that she had dark hairy arms "like a bear," which may or may not have been a bad thing to the little boy, and she still worries about her arm hair to this day and bleaches it now.

FreshTart, that lunch sounds really really good. In fact, I'm looking at my pizza here and wishing I could trade. Keep up the good nutritious lunches and I'm sorry for the ignorance of the other kids and their families that will tease your little ones about their superiour food. Don't give in to the Cheetos!

[berrykat]

you could give in to the tings though :lol: seroiusly that lunch sounds great and healthy.

[soilman]

" I don't mind them getting laughed at when they do something moronic, but not over healthy food."

You mind when their cuisine is laughed at by elementry-school-children? Elementry-school-children aren't exactly the arbiters of taste and etiquette. Why would anyone mind what they say, one way or another? No wonder you complain about me being "on your back." If you let elementry-school-children get to you -- you are extremely vulnerable.

[FreshTart]

you could give in to the tings though :lol: seroiusly that lunch sounds great and healthy.

I have yet to find tings. Which is just as well :)

The school has a "strict" no junk food policy, however they consider "cheese" snacks healthy. Sure, cheese can be healthy.....but not when it's in deep-fried and processed form :rolleyes:

M only wants sandwiches now :( So, we agreed on dark molasses banana bread w/ peanut butter sandwiches :D