A few months ago, we noticed that Chloe won’t eat her food during lunch in school – of course, we asked her why – and she didn’t want to say at first – and just told us that she didn’t have enough time to finish her food. So we told her that we were gonna talk to her home room teacher to let her stay till she finishes her food before going out to play. Of course, that didn’t sink in too well with Chloe – so she told us the truth about her lunch time. Chloe explained that some of her friends in her class – said that her food was smelly – so she didn’t want to eat it in school as it embarrasses her. Yes! kids can be insensitive and we believed that it wasn’t meant to be mean but we also know that you can’t control what other kids think or say to our kid. So we enlisted her teachers help and also tried to explain to Chloe that not everyone need to like her food – and that she can go right ahead and finish her food even if someone in her class don’t like her food.
A month later, still Chloe would eat a bit more of certain food but some food – she just won’t eat them even though she loved the food at home. So what do every good parents do? We made extra food – first for the home room teacher to try and then 2 weeks later – a bigger batch in a corning ware dish (presentation very important too eh) and sent it to school to offer to Chloe’s classmate to eat. And guess what? today Chloe came back with her thermos empty ! woohoo!!! so if your child ever come home without touching their food – there may be more to it than meet the eyes.