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Good kids join the clean plate club!
Bad kids go hungry.
Trying to get your children to eat their dinner is an age old challenge. The little brats will complain about the food that is put in front of them even if they have never tried it before. Part of a parent's job is to discipline their children well and get them to eat the food in stead of complaining about it. Resorting to freedom fries and cheeseburgers is not an acceptable solution.
I remember when I was young I didn't like to eat string beans or tomatoes. My parents used to tell me how good they are, but I just thought they were lying to me. I would eat them after being told to, but I didn't like it. I also didn't like hearing about all of the starving children in Ethiopia who were dying for a slice of tomato.
Now I love those delicious fruit. If my parents had let me get away with my foolish childhood prejudice I might still hate tomatoes.
The message here is that kids should listen to their parents!
I suspect that the little rug-rat in this story is the same way at home:
Hopefully the parent of this unruly child will make an effort to contact the teacher and thank her for trying to discipline her child. I don't think she sent the child to school with food for him to throw it out. We need more teachers like this who are not afraid to stand up to children and teach them how to be civilized.
Trying to get your children to eat their dinner is an age old challenge. The little brats will complain about the food that is put in front of them even if they have never tried it before. Part of a parent's job is to discipline their children well and get them to eat the food in stead of complaining about it. Resorting to freedom fries and cheeseburgers is not an acceptable solution.
I remember when I was young I didn't like to eat string beans or tomatoes. My parents used to tell me how good they are, but I just thought they were lying to me. I would eat them after being told to, but I didn't like it. I also didn't like hearing about all of the starving children in Ethiopia who were dying for a slice of tomato.
Now I love those delicious fruit. If my parents had let me get away with my foolish childhood prejudice I might still hate tomatoes.
The message here is that kids should listen to their parents!
I suspect that the little rug-rat in this story is the same way at home:
Teacher arrested for making child eat his lunch:
Mar 18, 10:05 AM EDT
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- A kindergarten teacher in Connecticut has been arrested for allegedly forcing a 5-year-old boy to eat food the child had thrown in a garbage can. Sixty-seven-year-old Anne O'Donnell, a teacher at Park City Magnet School in Bridgeport, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of risk of injury to a minor.
School officials say the charge stems from an incident last week when the boy apparently tossed out his lunch of chicken nuggets and a banana from the school cafeteria. The teacher is accused of retrieving the items from the garbage can and forcing the boy to eat them in front of her. O'Donnell has been released on a promise to appear in court.
Mar 18, 10:05 AM EDT
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- A kindergarten teacher in Connecticut has been arrested for allegedly forcing a 5-year-old boy to eat food the child had thrown in a garbage can. Sixty-seven-year-old Anne O'Donnell, a teacher at Park City Magnet School in Bridgeport, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of risk of injury to a minor.
School officials say the charge stems from an incident last week when the boy apparently tossed out his lunch of chicken nuggets and a banana from the school cafeteria. The teacher is accused of retrieving the items from the garbage can and forcing the boy to eat them in front of her. O'Donnell has been released on a promise to appear in court.
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