MN Little Italy 16

[TheMysticMasseuse]

I HAVE STARTED A LITTLE ITALY THREAD!!!!

hooray for me!!!

When I was pg and very tired I used to get those packets of mixed pulses then add some frozen minestra mix, was quite good.

onion soup sounds lovely Sput, how many onions is loads?

Gio, how about leek and potato soup? That's nice too. Ah, yesterday I discovered that -unsurprisingly -
jamie oliver has a website with his recipes.

I want to make the onion soup asap.

I am making that onion soup tomorrow!! looks lovely. Ah this is what I need - inspiration to get me out of my rut!

1kg maybe? I think I based this on a Nigel Slater recipe, will go and look.....

Sorry, I found a couple but nothing like mine, so maybe I dreamt that. I would probably put about 8 medium onions and about the same potatoes. The onions need to be cooked until they're silky before adding the rest. If you are organised you can use stock.

Gio hope your ds is ok poor chap he obviously likes he teacher and is not ready to be moved into another class hope he doesn't have a bug.
At materna Gio I would ask the teachers if there are any children ds has ' bonded' a bit with as I am certainly not inviting all of dd class when the time comes as she to is in a 3- 5 class so maybe the piccoli and then the outside friends we have.
SIL is having nipotinas party and she has invited the whole class but she is 7 so different thing.
DD has her first bite on her ... it is massive and will be a lovely bruise domani. OK I guess the first of a many but I wish the school had told me not her when I grabbed her arm ( she was falling over) and she said owwww and started crying ! I couldn't understand why thought she was just tired but then I saw ....She said she told the teacher as she did 'big' crying but when I asked who it was it could have been Giacomo, Fillipo or Mattia....We have a meeting tom when we get what books we have to buy for them ( She is 3 FGS) also we get told to buy the chance to buy a t shirt with the logo on for gym class
I will bringa up my points and also about the lack of communication as it could be easily rectified ..or am I being too British ??? Basically I would like to know if my daughter has eaten some/ none/ tasted her lunch , if she has had a crap and what the sodding veg was they tried to feed her ..NOn mi sembra tanto ... Imagine if the teachers did a sabbatical in the Uk they would faint at the paperwork.

Oh poor dd rosa! I don't remember is your dd at private nursery?
Dd school (and all the materne comunali) give out their menu, every 3 weeks. I think they have to.
They don't really tell you how much they've eaten unless they haven't eaten at all or seem to be constantly picky.
Dd's teachers sit with the children and eat with them at lunchtime, which apparently works really well in terms of children at least trying all the food and having "table manners", but apparently not all teachers do this.
I'd def raise these issues esp re biting.

And what's this thing about books? Books to do what???

Blimey heck- my friend in France was saying her little girl has homework to do...she is 2!!!!

Rosa, I thought when I first read your post you meant a mozzie bite....I would be down there bitchslapping I'm afraid if my child came home having been bitten....I'd certainly want to know how/by whom/and what action was taken....

Dd's nursery teacher would just tell me "yes" when I asked if she'd eaten.....I do thank nursery for widening her repertoire beyond pasta e sugo, as that was all she would eat here before having lunch there....(she's currently sulking in front of the pasta e lenticchie, but she has given in and is eating them now....she likes them, it just seems pro forma that she has to refuse to eat first) I also followed Franca's advice today and went and bought some cotto to offer her a panino mid-afternoon as I often feel she just gets too tired to properly eat in the evening- even though we eat at 7pm....

at cotto. I have a thing for prosciutto cotto. My dc would couldn't survive without a generous merenda ain the middle of the afternoon.

Would you really make a big thing out of a bite? Gosh I feel like a terrible mother now, but never worried about bites in the under 5. But I've always trusted the teachers/nursery staff to deal with it at the right time. Am I naive???

mmmmmmmm pasta e lenticchie sounds delicious too.

Maybe I'm too English? Just been talking about Rosa's dd's bite with my American friend and we were both about it....coming from the UK where everything is so.....I suppose institutionalised, logged, discussed, dissected etc....and here, most parents are just so "dai, sono bambini"...we were laughing that in the afternoon we feel like we need debriefing having been behind enemy lines all morning, and asking subtle yet pertinent questions to ensure we know every tiny thing that has happened to the kids in our absence...not to mention the trauma of selecting a school in the first place etc..whereas our very dear Italian friend was just "he'll go to the nearest school to the house" takes him on the first day, throws him in the door, leaves and never looks back...

KWIM? We need a happy medium I think...(and I need to use fewer (.....) on every post)

Oh I like the use of .... as well

I understand where you are coming from Bucharest, and yes, there must be a happy medium.
Again, it's difficult to generalize, because lots of Italian parents agonize about schools etc, others are completely lax about it, etc etc

I really do have a 1970s -left wingy trust of schools in general, until of course I'm proven differently and then I'll act.
I think the dai sono bambini approach is right until a certain age. Sadly Italians seems to have the same approach with 8 yrs old, 10 yrs old, 16 yrs old... 72 yrs old (see Berlusconi )

Have to dash and pick dc and take them to piscina

I am a bit so so on the bite I know she is not perfect but seeing as I know she would have screamed then they could have looked and told me I don't forsee a song and dance about it just a next time please just let me know seeing as it so big ( it wasn't a nip !) vediamo domani.
The nursery is private it is suore though. They are in tables of 5 but don't have an adult with them at the table . Surely they must have somebody supervising particular tables and if they just put a table with names and put an x in a box if they ate say an A for a taste ...The menu is on the board but it says verdura di stagione and frutta on the same bit of paper they could write carrots / apple or what ever so I don't have to play the guessing game today it was green veg according to dd

Oh no not fewer ......... I put them on every post I think .

Am bemused re books Rosa?? You must let us know what ones and why! Poor dd - hope she is ok re bite. Is a difficult one, agree with you Rosa that it would have been nice to have been told.
Franca and Bucharest saw you bravely defended Nutella on another thread earlier . What is it with MNetters hatred of the stuff? Boh!
Poor ds full of cold-very snotty, sneezy, coughs etc. No febbre pero. What should I do tomorrow if is still the same- what's the etiquette here with colds senza la febbre? I want him to go if is not too bad but on the other hand I don't want him to not feel 100%, so get upset again and associate school with bad feelings. Boh again!

I always go for the if-he's-OK-in-himself-he-goes option, as I reckon being in school takes their mind off feeling a bit poorly....but, if it's all a bit delicate about his feelings towards school at the mo, then I wouldn't risk it...
Been on phone to (divorced) Italian friend, whose little boy just started elementare with dd (different class) the maestra asked him today if his parents lived together! Bloody cheek. Again I would be incensed and tear off down to school to ask the maestra what that might possibly have to do with my child in school, but her new compagno (who she lives with) has said to leave it.....

Off to put the sausages in the oven......

(Gio- I didn't start off defending nutella, as I wouldn't usually give it for breakfast, but it's what dd had this morning in a rush! Has to be better than the nothing she would have ended up with!!)

We have frutta di stagione too , but vegetables are always specified.
I hope they'll answer to your questions... I'd be terrified by the nuns

Bucharest . Do you think the maestra knew already that your friend is divorced??? I can't believe she asked something like that

Gio, I think that at your ds's age I'd have kept mine at home. I agree that it'd be better not to break the inserimento stage, but perhaps he needs to rest tomorrow and then he'll have thurs and friday?

I get mad at nutella threads, and it's always described as something exotic (therefore morally dubious) and not matching mn frugality

Oh dear, I seem to be the only one who keeps children home with a cold/ See, I'm a softie inside . The reason is that I usually feel crap with a cold.

too tired to engage tonight, but link to nutella thread please!

buona serata and chat tomorrow, hopefully

here

thanks franca, and well done for making them see sense... 80 kcals OMG!!! for a growing child!!! (when "they" give their children chips sandwiches and stuff like that...)

Just butting in, too fed up to engage tonight,[drained emoticon]

but have a question from Penthe if she is around: Is Phylosophy A'level considered a soft or hard A'level?

By the way I am a great believer with kids'parties the less kids the better, more intimate, easier to bond, individual attention, blah, blah. Otherwise it is just another day at school, and the nightmare of making food for those ungrateful sods.

how many of these anti-nutella can there be !?!?! needless to say, there's always nutella here, and the emergency jar . DP doesn't like, but always eats it . DS gets it occasionally, sometimes for bfast. boud to be better than the toddler who was having a packet of salt and vinegar crisps the other morning on the train (8.30am!)

kept DS home the other day as he had a cough - well, last time he did the school rang to go get him, so... but generally if he is happy enough, off to school, if miserable and tired cos he hasn;t slept because of cold, then at home.