I have the privilege of getting my six and two-year-old daughters ready for school every morning. I take pride in the lunches I pack for them.
However, after hearing from my wife yesterday that my six-year-old daughter, Raina, complained about her lunches being, "boring," I thought I should check directly with the source (not that I doubt my wife, mind you, but rather I was curious what my 1st grader would tell me...since she knows I make her lunch).
So this morning, during a breakfast of toast and yogurt, the following conversation went down:
Me: "Hey, I heard from Mommy that you don't like your lunch anymore. Is that true?"Raina: "Yeah, Daddy. You pack me the same thing everyday."Me: "I thought you liked those things."Raina: "I do, but you only pack me THOSE things. All of the other kids get more stuff in their lunch, like, five or six things to eat. I only get three."Me: "Four if you count the dark chocolate I've been putting in there lately."Raina: "That doesn't count, Daddy. It's so small."
Okay...mystery solved.
It's not the quality of the lunch I'm packing, but the QUANTITY.
So today, I up'ed the quantity of items and changed it around a bit. Here's what I put in her school lunch today...
- Colby Jack cheese sandwich with butter on a Martin's Potato Roll
- Whole apple from Brown's Orchard
- Nature's Promise Cheese Snackers
- String Cheese
- 20 (or so) multi-flavored jelly beans
- Water
- And of course a weird note that I drew (see attached image).
As for my two-year-old, I figured she could use a menu shake-up too so she got...
- Quaker Instant Oatmeal - Peaches & Cream
- Whole banana
- Water
It's coming up to the end of the work day, so I'm still at the office and I haven't seen my girls yet. I'm curious as to what they thought of their "new" lunches.
As for work, we're adding a new page in our Education Resources section on Stage of Life about encouraging digital literacy in the classroom through the use of technology or blogging.
Right up our alley.
Till tomorrow,
--Eric
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