"I don't like eating olives at school because everyone laughs at me"

[Caligyulea]

This is my DS's explanation for why he hasn't eaten the olives I've put in his lunchbox.

Deeply peeving, as he's such a fussy little sod and olives are one of the few vegetables that he will actually eat like sweets. Until now. He'll eat them at home all the time, but at school, what's obviously happened is incredulity from other kids which has made him self-conscious about eating them.

What a PITA.

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Can't he just have fruit instead of veg in his packed lunch?

God,I'd tell him to be glad that he's different!
I've just been to the health food shop (no shopping in bloody Tescos for me thanks!) to get cartons of fruit juice for our Mother&Toddler party.Can't wait to see the faces of the others.

Some of their kids have never drunk anything but those fruit shoot things or those weird little soft plastic bottles of coloured water that look radioactive. I swear I would rather my kids drank a litre of warm Welsh mountain sheep piss than that.(At least i know what's in it.)

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I'm smug as fuck,me.

good on you moondog I only offer water or milk to visiting kids with no apparant loss of popularity !

yes me too

actually I did buy a bottle of organic squash for visitors

I had it for so long when I poured it out it had big lumps of mould floating on it

we do have a bottle of ribena on the go atm

I do squash at parties but only the stuff that has no sweeteners in - robinsons hi juice. dont mind sugar but hate too many chemicals

moondog

Agree with getting ds to have an assertive answer. How old is he? He could always say Harry potter eats them or something along those lines?

I tell dd to say her mum says no

dont mind if she blames me

Enid lol at mould in the squash!
Visiting kids always ask for blackcurrant which we don't have (wee issues in the past and then I thought, why have it?) but then they will drink milk, water or juice (or maybe go thirsty).

hmmm, think I'm going against the grain but a kid eating olives at the school I went to would have been like commiting social suicide.

I think it's important for children to 'fit in' and if he eats them at home it's not like he's not eating them at all.

I plan to send my dd to a Turkish school when I'm next there (caters fro 3-7 year olds)
Went to visit and saw the dining room-90 odd little plates set out with fetta cheese,tomatoes and glossy black olives.

The head teacher couldn't believe it when I told her that (most) British kids wouldn't touch an olive (or the cheese for that matter.)

I won't deny that my kid like crap. She just doesn't get it,what with me being so smug an' all.

My dd is only 14 months - but I already feel like a bad mummy because I will only let her drink water, not have chocolates and sweets and not have what I feel is crap food. Obviously, it's not that she won't ever have 'treats' but I think it is important to instil good eating habits when they are young.

So I would be positively delighted if my dd sat next to someone at school that had such a varied lunchbox - and not processed crap - just because it is 'easier'.

Agree with the other mn posters about thinking of some good retorts for your ds - you'd think the other children would be jealous.

Why is doing something that is in her best interest making you feel bad????

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My baby had HORSE at the childminders last week

I don't actually feel bad because I think I am doing the best for my daughter. What annoys me is the 'looks' you get when you say no to offers of crap from others.

I'm still v smug over the fact that ds1+2 both proclaim their fav veg to be sprouts. They ate 8 each y'day with their roast supper.
They will try olives, but have lost the acquired taste, a shame, because they ate them happily between 1-3yo.
For other veggie options, what about red/orange/yellow peppers?
I still say go with the "praise for being so grown up to eat olives" route, and forget the taunts, works with mine.

i think ill have to parp at this smuggery now

the long and short of it is that its ok saying "oh be happy to be different " to a kid but its HARD and htey dont always want to b e different

rofl ggg!
Mulled wine lady,,pah who care about looks??

Was asked the other week if I used Huggies or pampers.
Said 'Neither.I use cloth.' You could have heard a pin drop (we're not very 'with it' in these parts.)

woudl that be a nappy [in?
interestign convos you lto have moondog

Veggies - sticks of peppers and cucumbers, little pots of sweetcorn,

Or fruit - dried fruit and grapes are easier to transport.

ggg!

We swapped dd to school dinners after half term (so now she's probably eating a bit of horse, rat, crushed up bone ). She used to love eating mackerel pate sandwiches until she told me the children complained to the teacher that her lunchbox had 'gone very smelly' and there was a very public inquest as to what was in her sandwiches!