Not to give DC a snack on way home from school?

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Quite happy to let them snack once we are home but my DD (9) has asked that I arrive at school gates to collect her with a snack. She's noticed other parents arrive with a snack and says she's hungry too at the end of the school day (often doesn't eat the fruit I give her for morning break though!) And doesnt want to wait the 15-20 min it takes to get her home. I suspect hunger doesn't come into it , she's just hoping she is more likely to get a bag of crisps or similar, rather than toast, if they eat on the way home rather than once we get there.
Today we saw a family eating a chocolate bar and small pother of Pringles on the way home which prompted the question (though not for the first time)
AIBU to make my DC just wait a little until they get home and suggest that they have something a bit healthier than chocolate and crisps?

Agree with other posts, check what she hasnt eaten and get her to eat that

Always take a small snack for my two - they are really hungry when they come out of school. Usually a sandwich, banana or plain biscuit. We are not always going straight home. Lunch portion sizes for Y6 and Y1 seem to be the same size so at nearly 11, DS1 claims he's often still hungry after lunch. No fruit snack for Juniors either and certainly no school afternoon snack as pp's mention! Some days they have swimming at school or a whole afternoon of PE - I would definitely need a snack too!

And on a Friday it might be - cover your eyes - chocolate biscuits or crisps!!!!

Take an apple every day until she gets bored. Won't last long.

My DD, year 1, has a snack at about 10:15 and then lunch at 11:30. So by the time she comes out of school at 3:15 she is starving and gets very grumpy. My son was exactly the same, as is their Dad. Low blood sugar levels=grumpiness. The snack in the morning will be something like a carrot or tomato, provided by the school and then lunch isn't massive. We live about 20mins from school but sometimes it can take us over an hour to get home depending on weather, who we meet, what games they play and various other things. If I waited till we got home to eat we could be having serious meltdowns which would make it take even longer to get home. I have the snack on me and if she asks for it she gets it and if she doesn't then it stays in my bag. Friday is treat day so chocolate or ice cream if the ice cream van is outside school, the rest of the week it is fruit. My son is better now that he is in juniors and they have lunch at 12:30. He doesn't get a morning snack anymore either. All in all I think it totally depends on your children and what works for them and you.

I believe my mother used to give me packets of dried raisins and sometimes organic sweets. I grew up tall and slim. Food at home was always well balanced no takeaways, Macdonalds, ready meals etc.

This thread is a little moralistic isn't it.

I'm clearly not a good enough mother. My child isn't even at school but sometimes she has a snack.

Because it's easier than when she's hangry.

Modern medicine will cure childhood obesity before long. I'm pretty sure we'll be golden.

Dopey Modern medicine can't "cure childhood obesity" anymore than it can stop kids developing the long term health issues associated with obesity.

Some of these poor overweight kids we're seeing now will not outlive their parents.

Maybe once a week? I think it's more to be like her peers than true hunger.

Play the game back.

Point out that you're DS is passionate about supporting organisations with a strong ethical and CSR record and is impressed by Pizza Express's commitment both to helping maintain Venetian Heritage and their ongoing work with local schools, where they often turn over their kitchens to classrooms to help teach about fresh food, and also about how to run a local business.

I have a fast metabolism and remember being FAMISHED after school. When I was older it led to me eating crap straight from school. Bring her a healthy snack. You'll soon see if it's true hunger or desire for crisps!

Gosh treaclesoda it's the norm at our school. My daughter always has a snack on the way home. A biscuit or something, not choc or crisps. She does a lot of sport and then the walk home is a mile and she's always ravenous. It's about three hours since lunch so I have no problem with this but if she's still hungry when we get home it's fruit or crackers/cheese rather than 'treat' stuff

Snacks good b/c We don't eat tea until 6pm. I seem to recall a lot of MNers give their kids supper no later than 5pm on school days.

Don't see what the issue is with eating while walking - children should be sitting down as little as possible (if you want to prevent obesity) so having snack time while on the move is healthier really when you think about it.

How does after school snack = constant grazing?

School lunch is at 12.10, dinner at 6pm. My DC would be famished without something in between.

"Hangry" is becoming the most annoying word on MN.
I'm not disputing any child isn't somewhat HUNGRY after school, but starving and famished they are not. Most will be home within 30 minutes or so (and of course I'd take something if we weren't going straight home, that's different).
The OP was going straight home with her DD, not swimming, not to after school club etc.

Are people really making up tubs of chopped veggies to take on the school run.

RonSwansons I live near a chip shop. When I pick my DC up from primary school, the pavement's always blocked by 10 - 15 teenagers eating chicken and chips.

If she's not overweight why on earth would you NT give her a snack after school if she's hungry? My two are ravenous when they leave school. We don't eat dinner til later.
I find comments like "all this snacking annoys me" bizarre quite frankly. There is nothing wrong with snacking (try to make it healthy though) if your child is not overweight. They are growing FFS

And it only takes a second to pop an apple in a bag or cut up some carrots. Seriously, are we too busy to do that?

It's not due to " too busy", it's not believing it's A Good Thing to be getting a tub of cut up carrots out and eating while walking home. Instead we choose to sit at the table at home with a drink at the cut up carrot (and something to dip it in).Or a slice of cake etc.

What Maddie said!!

Fruit wouldn't cut it for my DS2, he seems to burn off blood sugar within seconds, then comes the crash with associated tantrums. With the help of diabetic adult DS1, I'm working out snacks that will last him until teatime, even on DD's after school club days, when we have 45 minutes in the park, because it's too far to walk home and back in time. At the moment it's 2 mini sausage rolls and 2 strawberries.

We have no constant snacking in our house. Breakfast, snack of fruit at school, school lunch, snack of eg tuna sandwich or mini sausage rolls and strawberries, supper.

An apple won't cut it for me either when I'm hungry. I feel more hungry after having eaten fruit. There's something about it, I think.

Me too gandalf