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…
THIS is scary. Are we living on Mars these days?
shut up!
are you serious?
poor snack police. And poor Ryan for getting policed. I bet that kids mom is a tool. (Snack polices, not ryan’s. 🙂 )
This is either really funny or really sad. I can’t quite figure out which. I’d be tempted to tell Ryan, “Yeah. If you keep the fat out of your diet you’ll never be big. Look at cows.”
Oh dear. Reading this, I feel so bad for the “snack police”. What must that kid have to deal with at home…
Growing boys need their nutrition! That includes fat, too!!!
Yeah, what’s up with that? It has to come from TV too. Reese always talks about “how many calories” are in something. I NEVER look at stuff like that (although I should!) so it certainly didn’t come from me. It’s crazy what kids pick up from all sorts of places….
Wow! I think the mommy of the boy your son sits next to, could use a little intervention, or at the very least a glass of wine.
Good Lord!
That’s horrible, H. The kid’s 7. At 15 he’s going to be anorexic. Sheesh.
NNNNnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Say it isn’t so! I am so militant about NOT doing that in our home…They learn what we teach.
Ha! I’m still feeding my kids whole milk….
BTW I have a magnet on my refrigerator:
DOES MY FAT ASS MAKE MY ASS LOOK FAT?
And who says mom isn’t passing her fat issues onto her kids?