P.U.

P.U. – what does it mean? I’ve never heard of P.U. till chloe started school and each time her school friends or camp friends say that the food she eats is P.U. – she becomes so embarrassed and stopped eating immediately. So each time she comes home with all her lunch intact – I know something is not right. This week – I gave Chloe some rice with chinese mushrooms and whole mushrooms with oyster sauce for her lunch and she brought almost everything back without finishing it. Apparently, one of her classmate – said her food was P.U. meaning “smells rotten”

So what do you do – if you were the mom? we encouraged her to talk to her teacher about it – but she won’t, then what do we do? we write a note to the teacher – hoping she would address it of course – so we’ll wait and see what happens? or do I take the easy way out and not give her food that she likes? I know that Chloe needs to grow some backbones and not be too bothered by what other children say – but she is and no matter what we say – she is just offended. I don’t want to teach my kid to be rude and say P.U. back to her friends – it’s tough being a kid when we were kids – it’s even tougher to see our kids being a kid *sigh*.