Snacks at school pick-up?

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Do people at your school do this? DC2 is in reception and it seems most parents bring a snack for them to eat the minute they leave the classroom, often sugary. No judgement, whatever makes your day easier - but it means DC2 whines and moans for one as well.

We’re only ten minutes walk from school and he has something as soon as he gets back, I’m not anti-snacks per se, but I’m getting a bit irritated with having to constantly say no and feel like the bad guy because I don’t turn up with chocolate biscuits to be eaten standing outside the classroom door!

Is this a thing? Am I being mean not bringing something?

Give him a banana or other fruit

No, you are the good parent. I don’t allow this neither

We were only a 10 minute walk from school (but it took more like 30 minutes for the younger one as we would then have to go to the next school and wait for the older siblings and then walk back), I never took snacks.
But some kids get the hanger, some will
be going straight to a dance class or have swimming, some will be dropped at a grandparents for a few hours and the parents try and ease the stress for everyone all round, whatever.
If you don’t want to take them a snack just continue ignoring any whining. Or take them a banana. Whatever.

I never took snacks. Won't hurt them to wait 10 minutes to get home to snack.

Some parents do but I never took a snack for mine. Your DC will stop whining once he realises it's not happening.

I did but only in reception (a peice of fruit nothing that exciting!) as poor dc was so exhausted, and ‘hangry’ from adapting to a school day that it did make a huge difference to their mood and made the journey home more tolerable and less likely to be upset.

People who give snacks are bad parents ? 😂

Also may want to look up ‘double negatives’ just so you as the good parent you are can properly teach your child grammar…

So you want all the other parents to stop giving their children snacks to make your life easier?

Snacks - no problem if going on to an activity
chocolate and sweets (which is what OP’s kid is whinging for) - very much a problem

Calling other people bad parents is a step too far surely?

Yes I always take snacks for my grandchildren, they are always starving when they come out of school and usually they are going onto some other activity. Also the younger one has to wait in the playground for 10 minutes before his sibling comes out so it makes life much easier

I've been taking a bag of snacks for 6 years now! Apples, satsumas, and crackers.
Both DC were basically chewing their own arm off when they left the classroom, and if they ate a snack there and then I found they had enough time to build up more hunger for dinner, whereas a later snack would often mean dinner was more of a struggle.

We play in the playground before we have a 20 minute drive to go get dses from secondary then thirty minutes back so definitely have to bring something!!

Never took a snack for mine, we have a 10 minute walk home. The constant snacking or being told to provide snacks in the school irritates me. Meant to be ‘healthy’ but usually it’s some sort of sugary, processed crap. Wait until the class birthday sweets start, it’s relentless. Kids seem unable to go 2 hours without a snack.

I don't take snacks. The ones who do at my school bring Mars bars and other total rubbish to pick up. I've had to be very clear with the kids that we wait until we get home where we still won't get a chocolate bar. I try to be tactful but it's hard to know the right thing to say so I've almost certainly offended the chocolate bar crew.

No I didn’t bring snacks and I was a 20 minute drive from one school half hour from the other. There was an ice cream van and they did get a treat on Fridays.

I think a lot of parents mistake this 'hangry' for just being tired and irritable and then are being soothed with food. A huge problem. As we now know

Dd9 attends after school clubs, including sports (netball, hockey) every day straight from school. They aren’t allowed to take snacks and they don’t offer any. This means when she’s collected at 4:30-5pm she’s not eaten since lunch. She’s fine. I thought it was a long time at first but all the kids are fine. Snacks at pick-up are completely unnecessary and set kids up for constant snacking.

I give my three year old a snack for the car drive home when I pick him up from preschool. He is always hungry and it tends to be a healthy (or healthy-ish!) option that I offer him. It never affects his appetite at tea so that doesn’t concern me!

I take a snack, we’re also only 10-15 minutes from home and I was adamant I wouldn’t be doing it, but the walk home from school nursery was so bloody painful with an overtired and hangry DD so I introduced it and it made everything so much easier that I’ve kept it up through to reception.

She’s one of the youngest in the year - won’t be 5 till they’ve finished Reception, loves school but is absolutely tired out by it, they have lunch at 11.45 and seem to sometimes have an afternoon snack (fruit) sometimes not. She’s hungry and I don’t mind her having something at that point.

It’s usually a satsuma, but sometimes it might be a rich tea biscuit or similar. I usually try to wait till we’re out of the school gates at least. She eats a really healthy variety of food across the day so I can’t get too worried about it honestly.

I thought all parents took snacks at pick up time for reception kids - poor things are exhausted. Maybe stop expecting other people to align their parenting with yours and mind your own business.

Mine needs a snack on days he has school dinners but not days he has packed lunch…

Yes.

Mine is starving hungry, she gets given a piece of fruit like apple/banana/pear and a cheese spread roll/hot cross bun etc for the journey home.
She could last, but... Why make her wait when I don't have to? It makes the 20 minute walk much easier when she's not grumbling and grumpy.

I always took snacks. We didn’t always go straight home.

What does it matter if they eat their snack at pick up or 10 minutes later?

Can you see the word ‘bad’ in my post?

Nope. I prefer to praise the OP for good decision making.