Snacks at school pick-up?

[MyCatSnoresTooLoudly]

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?

You do you…. Every parent does things differently

That's really not the majority of kids I was talking about.

Did you think it was?

Yes I bring snacks even though I’m only a 5 min walk. I didn’t used to but getting home was such hard work in reception with endless screaming and tantrums. Ds has asd and I actually read on here about bringing snacks to help regulate or something. Anyway it’s helped so I don’t really care if anyone judges me.

Always bring a snack for my preschooler. She hardly eats at school and we’re about 20mins away from home. I usually make her a fruit salad or chopped pepper etc and on Friday I bring a treat but it’ll be homemade like a shortbread biscuit or whatever I've baked

You’re not being mean at all. I’ve never done this either, we are a 5 min walk from home, I prefer us to sit together with a drink and snack back at home so we can have a chat about their day. I would only bring a snack if I was planning on being at the park for a while or driving to the supermarket or something for at least an hour before returning home.

Ive only noticed one Mum handing out snacks to all the children outside both my children’s classrooms, but she was recently asked to stop by school staff. I think at our school the official rule is they should be consumed off the premises.

It's always 'Oh, but I didn't mean you' with people when such sweeping comments are made, isn't it?

I bring DC1 (reception age) a piece of fruit for the 10 minute walk home. Seems to help the transition out of school and he really does seem to be starving by 3:15.

I can’t believe the choice of brining a snack to school pick up or not is that controversial though. I don’t notice which parents bring snacks or not. It doesn’t affect my decisions and I doubt me rocking up with a banana affects theirs.

No I never did this because we were 5 mins walk from home so not needed - they had toast/fruit etc when we got home

We are a 12 minute drive from school, but have to drive 11 minutes to the junior school, hang around for 5-10 minutes then 20 minutes home. I bring a snack but typically it is in the car that they have it.

No, not really.

People tend to speak generally on threads like this.

No conversations would work if after every sentence we had to add "Disclaimer: I'm not talking about X, Y, Z or anyone with a child in a fairly unusual situation that doesn't affect the majority of parents who meet their kids at the school gates with a snack".

Exhausting.

Mine get a bit of fruit in the car which is also meant to tide them over until dinner.

I take snacks, DC2 gets terrible hanger and his age group eat lunch about midday latest so by 3:20pm he’s ravenous. It is often a small sweet treat - ND DC for whom school is a lot more tiring than for NT DC so a little pick me up is comforting. We have a 20 minute walk home and as PP said, a snack at 3:20 means enough appetite for dinner around 5-5:30.

I take plums. We munch them as we stroll home, chatting about the day. Not sure why anyone would have a strong opinion about that but hay ho

My boys used always to have a sweet snack at the end of the school day; more often than not a homemade flapjack, brownie or slice of carrot cake traybake. No harm has been done, they are now 20 and 18 and have a very healthy relationship with food.

Yep. Mine tends to get thirsty as she won't drink her water bottle in the day, so I bring her a bottle of full fat coke. Then a light snack like a cold kebab, and a couple of Marlboro Light - she prefers them to Haribo, I guess she just has advanced tastes. Always so sweet to see her sharing with her friends too <3

Been taking a (healthy)snack since reception and still do. Reader, she’s Yr9 😂. I probably do it more for me than her, it makes me feel nurturing and it’s appreciated more than any other bit of food I ever give to her.

I used to take mine into the shop on the way home to choose their own 'snack' Bad bad mother that I am.

Well I rocked up with a freddo frog for my 5 year old, shock horror! If parents were looking and judging, than quite honestly they need to get a life, as it obviously isn't very exciting! I'd rather be a treat giver than be a stuck up judgemental bore.