to continue giving DS what he's always had for lunch

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DS has a packed lunch (year 2.) he has a whole meal pitta bread filled with chicken salad, a hard boiled egg, an apple or pear, yoghurt and a home made flapjack.

He is apparently being bullied because of the egg? All the children have been complaining about it smelling. I hate the pressure to comform, he's 7

I don't really want the other children to know it's got to him so I've told him to tell a teacher but he's got quite upset.

WIBU to send it in anyway? To me it's a standard healthy sort of lunch item!

Eggs do smell
If you don't believe then do an experiment
Boil an egg them put it in a box sitting on the kitchen workbench for 4 hrs
Then open it and tell it doesn't smell
It might not smell when you put it in the box butiit sure will when you open that lid

I'm kind of in agreement with bamboo.

Eggs in lunch boxes smell like farts. How on earth are kids not going to notice that????

It's more that rather than just not put an egg in one day it's mutated into systematic bullying and analysing everything else to see if it will continue because of some other thing.

He's been picked on because his box stinks. No smelly food and job done! He might get picked on for something else but it doesn't mean it would be related. Dunno. Just seems a lot of thought over a simple solution...

I still remember the boy who had marmite sandwiches everyday in infants school. Please stop sending the egg.

mardybra you clearly haven't RTT because if you did, you would know what the 'precious' comment was about and it was nothing to do with the egg!

Why don't people RTFT! The whole thing, and the subsequent exchange between the OP and I before posting about something way back!

I rtft and posted that your precious comment was uncalled for, but then maybe you should read the ops comments again as you clearly didn't 'get' what the op was saying

OP, hope the no egg regime is going well. It's so hard to know how to protect and arm your little one to be happy at school - when you know quite how soul destroying school days can be.

I'm going to be gibbering in September when mine goes to school, as I suspect I have similiar memories of school to you. I remember lunch times as being the worse time of the day, unsupervised and unstructured interaction where every second lasted an eternity. I felt terrified, exposed and vulnerable, torture every day. It had a massive effect on my state of mind, and ability to deal with the world.

However, I'm different from my parents, and Ds is different from me. I am trying to equip him in a way I wasn't, with self esteem, social skills and above all, absolute faith in his family... That's all we can do, and then hope and pray :)

Don't worry, you can help him even if he does end up getting bullied. And you can be that encouraging force that helps put it all in perspective, and you'll be great at it because you'll have insight into how he might feel. But until that day, keep up that fascade of positivity!

Off topic but should he really be having an egg every day? I thought they were a once or twice a week thing -ssomething to do with cholesterol?

I still remember the boy who had marmite sandwiches everyday in infants school. Please stop sending the egg.

Whats wrong with marmite sandwiches?

Hard boiled eggs do smell dreadful when they have been in a lunch box for several hours, and children do comment very loudly, and crudely, about the smell. This does not constitute bullying but I can understand why your son does not want to take an egg. Don't force him on a point of principle.

OP totally get where you are coming from.

I read it as AIBU to think this could be the start of bullying and what should I do to make sure it isn't.

I suffered bullying at school and like you it started over something quite small. I would therefore be conscious as to how I dealt with a situation like this. It might be you are overthinking and projecting your own feelings, but you asked here to get advice and support and not suggestions on what food to replace the egg with.

Anyway I digress.

What has happened since no egg has been sent, has he been ok?