Ryan: What are you sending for a snack?
Me: Cheese sandwich crackers
Ryan: *grabs the cracker package, flips it over to the nutritional information and reads intently* I can’t take this because it has 11 grams of fat.
Me: You are 7. You are a growing boy. What does it matter that it has 11 grams of fat?
Ryan: The boy next to me always reads all my snacks and says there is too much fat.
Me: Huh? *pause and then I spy the Pretzel snacks and grab them* Here, take this. The boy next to you should be fine with these.
Ryan: *turns the package over for the important news* Oh great! Only .5 grams of fat. Good job mom. Thanks.
Lord have mercy on me. Ryan sits next to the snack police at school…I was in the pantry picking out a snack for Ryan to take to school (first grade) when he came running in.
Ryan: What are you sending for a snack?
Me: Cheese sandwich crackers
Ryan: *grabs the cracker package, flips it over to the nutritional information and reads intently* I can’t take this because it has 11 grams of fat.
Me: You are 7. You are a growing boy. What does it matter that it has 11 grams of fat?
Ryan: The boy next to me always reads all my snacks and says there is too much fat.
Me: Huh? *pause and then I spy the Pretzel snacks and grab them* Here, take this. The boy next to you should be fine with these.
Ryan: *turns the package over for the important news* Oh great! Only .5 grams of fat. Good job mom. Thanks.
Lord have mercy on me. Ryan sits next to the snack police at school…
Ryan: What are you sending for a snack?
Me: Cheese sandwich crackers
Ryan: *grabs the cracker package, flips it over to the nutritional information and reads intently* I can’t take this because it has 11 grams of fat.
Me: You are 7. You are a growing boy. What does it matter that it has 11 grams of fat?
Ryan: The boy next to me always reads all my snacks and says there is too much fat.
Me: Huh? *pause and then I spy the Pretzel snacks and grab them* Here, take this. The boy next to you should be fine with these.
Ryan: *turns the package over for the important news* Oh great! Only .5 grams of fat. Good job mom. Thanks.
Lord have mercy on me. Ryan sits next to the snack police at school…
My kids have been reading the nutritional information off of packages recently, too. But they certainly haven’t gotten that from their mother!! It must be something they’re focusing on in school. Now if only we could get the lunch ladies to do the same….
Poor kid (your son and the snack police).
Back when I was taking snacks you could still get away with twinkies!!!
I totally agree with Jennifer..that boy’s parents sound like they need help.
Yes, there are definitely some issues with Snack Police boy’s parents.
Sounds like other boy’s mother doesn’t have any daughters to pass on her food obsession/eating disorder/poor body image issues to.
It must be something they are teaching in 1st grade.
We were at Subway the other night and I let the kids pick out chips. My son stood there forever and finally picked. After he had eaten 1/2 his chips he said he should have picked the “BAKED” Lays. I asked him why. “Because they are healthier for me.” I just shook my head – my tall skinny boy does NOT need to worry about that.
That’s FOR SURE the parents talking. There’s a kid in my daughter’s class who has a Mom like that. She won’t participate in some of the fund raisers, because she thinks we’re selling unhealthy stuff.
That’s actually sad. Poor kid thinking he has to worry about that.
At 7?!?!? SEVEN?!?! Sheesh! My kid did that for a brief period one year when my FIL was diagnosed with diabetes and therefore my MIL spent the whole summer teaching my boy about nutrition labels and how to read them and what he should be looking for. I nipped THAT in the bud fast and told him he was 8 and didn’t need to worry about how much he was eating…*sigh* Kids are like sponges so often in the WRONG ways!