All you "everything in moderation, lunchbox contents don't matter" mothers

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Do you tell your children to bully others who've got homemade bread and no chocolate?

Or do they just do it themselves?

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No tainting required, Pruni.

Thick kids are lunchbox bullies, say no more

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Ah, you were a homework-avoider too?

You could've had the homemade bread. I'd have had the homemade buns

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Don't think kids are encouraged to bully healthy lunchbox types just that kids' experience of the world is very limited so that whatever happens in their house and in their and their friends' lunchboxes is 'normal' and right and anything different is strange and wrong. They may not mean to be hurtful but if homemade bread looks weird to them (because they've never seen it before) they will say so and automatically think it tastes horrible.

It's typical for kids (and many adults) to refuse anything they're unfamiliar with. Recently my SIL came to visit with her kids. They have big appetites and eat healthily but eat fairly conventionally (whatever is cheap and very English) so they refused artichokes, aubergines and blueberries etc saying they didn't like them when they'd never tried them. Which is why all parents have a responsility to expose their kids to a wide variety of foods and set a good example.

My point being that by not sending their kids with a range of healthy foods they are automatically encouraging them to see healthy foods and those who eat them as different. Non-conformity unforunately often leads to bullying.