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Children's Lunches
March 18th 2008 03:43
I remember a school unit I did once with my Year 3 class on “healthy eating.” I asked the children one lesson to bring their lunch boxes into the classroom and we would look at ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ foods. The first thing I asked the children to do was to hold up a piece of fruit from their lunchbox. I was expecting the children to hold up something like an apple or an orange, but instead, most of the children held up roll-ups, fruit lollies and fruit sticks. I took a fruit stick from one of the children and asked the class to put their hand up if they thought that it was a fruit. Most of the children put their hand up. The fruit stick label said that it was ‘100% apple.’ I then proceeded to ask the children how an apple from a tree could turn into a fruit stick, because fruit sticks don’t grow on trees. It was amazing to see the responses the children gave and also made me realise how uneducated the children of today are about the food they eat. Nearly all of the lunch boxes in the classroom were filled with packaged foods that were full of sugar. Most of the items the children had said were ‘healthy’ were in fact ‘unhealthy’ and loaded with sugar. It’s no wonder more and more children are finding it hard to concentrate in class and conditions such as ADHD are on the rise. Studies have shown that students who eat foods throughout the day that are low in sugar achieve higher grades and have the ability to concentrate for a lot longer. If this is the case, why do you think there are so many children eating unhealthy foods full of sugar every day?
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Comments (1) Are parents in control of their children?
March 18th 2008 02:41
My neighbour popped over yesterday with her kids for a while. Whilst I was sitting in the lounge room talking to the Mother, the kids were successfully ruining my house. I couldn’t believe it!! One of them was pouring dirt from my garden all over my front door and the other was throwing fruit from the tree at my TV screen. I was scared something was going to smash! The Mother just sat there and did nothing but giggle about it! I was mortified, but felt like it wasn’t my place to say anything because that wasn’t my role. After they left, it took me an hour to clean up the mess that was made.
It’s really true… there are parents out there who have different standards about how to raise their children. How I would expect a child to behave in someone else’s home was certainly different to the expectations of my neighbour. She was a lovely person, don’t get me wrong, but it was certainly obvious that she either was happy to let her kids “rule the roost,” or didn’t have the strategies to manage the situation. As a teacher, we learnt many strategies on how to manage children at uni and in the classroom, which in some ways I guess is an advantage, but until I have children myself I don’t think I will quite grasp as a mother would what it’s really like.
Have you ever had this kind of situation happen to you where someone else’s kids might have been driving you nuts and you didn’t want to discipline them because they were someone else’s children? I would love to hear some of your stories as I’m sure there are lots. I have so many examples as a classroom teacher, with children over the years kicking up tantrums and screaming until they would get their own way like they would’ve at home. These strategies didn’t work so well for them in the school environment and were quickly rectified, but the children would still continue to pull the same tricks at home because they got away with it. Sometimes I wonder if having parenting courses available at school would help at all? What do you think?
It’s really true… there are parents out there who have different standards about how to raise their children. How I would expect a child to behave in someone else’s home was certainly different to the expectations of my neighbour. She was a lovely person, don’t get me wrong, but it was certainly obvious that she either was happy to let her kids “rule the roost,” or didn’t have the strategies to manage the situation. As a teacher, we learnt many strategies on how to manage children at uni and in the classroom, which in some ways I guess is an advantage, but until I have children myself I don’t think I will quite grasp as a mother would what it’s really like.
Have you ever had this kind of situation happen to you where someone else’s kids might have been driving you nuts and you didn’t want to discipline them because they were someone else’s children? I would love to hear some of your stories as I’m sure there are lots. I have so many examples as a classroom teacher, with children over the years kicking up tantrums and screaming until they would get their own way like they would’ve at home. These strategies didn’t work so well for them in the school environment and were quickly rectified, but the children would still continue to pull the same tricks at home because they got away with it. Sometimes I wonder if having parenting courses available at school would help at all? What do you think?
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