Hi,
My 4 year old girl started reception last week and this week is the first full week and has presented some issues.
She adores school but is refusing to get dressed and get to this week due to her panicking about school dinners.
Some background, she is a fussy eater (beige eg chips, pizza, fish fingers, seeded bread, cheese, dried fruit, raspberries, peas etc) so doesn’t enjoy wet food eg proper meals even though I’ve struggled for years to introduce it.
As you schools are hot on giving them a proper dinner for lunch, however, this is really putting pressure on my daughter and she is saying that’s why she isn’t wanting to go!
I said to the school I wanted them to keep encouraging her eg they often eat things in front of their peers that they wouldn’t elsewhere, but as the days go on it’s getting worse and she’s distraught and hyperventilating. I try to be really breezy and speak sense to her but she’s in such a state about it.
The school do give her the pack lunch I do each morning but only after she’s tried the dinner!
Has anyone experienced this? It’s exhausting x