An indignant mother has taken matters into her own hands after her young daughter got here home from school complaining a few comment her teacher made about her lunch.
Caroline, who posts on social media under the name @pezzi.shop, took to TikTok to disclose her three-year-old daughter had arrived home one afternoon saying her teacher told her to eat her “good” foods before her “bad” foods.
This meant the toddler needed to eat her sandwich and cucumbers before her cookie, which Caroline explained goes against what she tries to show her little girl about food neutrality.
“On this moment, I felt a little bit frustrated by the antiquated instruction from the teacher, but I responded saying, ‘Well that’s silly. There are not any good foods or bad foods. Food is just food’,” the mother said.
Caroline decided the very best technique to approach the matter was by leaving a handwritten note for her daughter’s teacher.
“None of her foods are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – they are only food!”
Social media users were divided by the mom’s note, with the mom believing her message wasn’t passive aggressive.
“I’m sure the teacher wasn’t attempting to be cruel … possibly you could possibly have talked to the teacher as a substitute of a passive aggressive note in your three-year-old’s lunch,” one social media user said.
One other commented: “As a teacher, your response is 100 per cent right. The narrative of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ food can actually encourage harmful eating habits to develop.”
“That’s way too controlling. Nobody should tell anyone in what order to eat their food. That’s their meal to enjoy,” one added.
One other said: “So long as my daughter is full enough to pay attention I don’t care what a part of her lunch she eats first. It’s normally mostly fruit and deli turkey anyway … but she could start with Oreos for all I care.”
Caroline said the concept of food not being “good” or “bad” but as a substitute just being food wasn’t her internal dialogue growing up but people educating her as an adult has meant she will make more informed selections together with her own daughter.