Waiting at lunch table alone

[HammerTimeNC]

Y11 DD doesn't like school dinners but is saying that if she has packed lunch, she'll have to sit on her own whilst her best friend is in the lunch queue.

I think she is self-conscious that she's not part of a bigger friendship group as she was in previous years.

Any advice I can give her? I recall feeling similar when younger but now I don't mind having lunch out alone.

I've suggested she queues to buy just dessert.

Can't she just queue with her friend? Are they forbidden from doing this?

I'd say try and get over it maybe? Kids in my daughters' school do this all the time and most people understand and won't think they're alone.

But I get that it can be stressful. I agree that she can try and queue with her friend. Maybe wait till later to take her lunchbox out and go and hang out with other people till her friend is done??

Well shes year 11. She needs to work this out herself. I would say to her that she has three choices, sit alone, queue up for desert, or get school dinners. There are ljterally three options and she has to pick one that is most suited to her. Noone can decide this for her or help in anyway. Its one of those life facts where you have to make a decision and go with it.