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| Subject: Stay out of my child's lunch box Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:23 am | |
| As a brand new school mum, I've recently discovered that schools have assumed the role of the Lunch Box Police. Every morning tea and lunch is a test to see if kids and their parents have faithfully followed the laws of healthy eating.
It's a nice idea, but it's questionable whether this has anything to do with health. In fact, in the quest to promote nutrition, schools may unintentionally be damaging kids' relationship with food.
One school in Brisbane is so strict that the children have to show their lunch boxes to the class each morning. I know of one child who is so anxious about having 'bad' food in his lunchbox that he doesn't want to go to school.
http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/stay-out-of-my-childs-lunch-box-20150302-13stn8.html |
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