A MOTHER was left fuming after her three-year-old tot was banned from eating his packed lunch which the teacher reckoned was ”unhealthy”.
According to the furious parent, who took to Reddit to share story, the incident not only left her son ”confused” but also ”hungry” all day.
The mum, from Germany, had packed a meal consisting of a sliced apple, freeze-dried banana chips, a handful of nutritious sunflower seeds, as well as a croissant in a plastic wrap.
”Today my son wasn’t allowed to eat his breakfast in kindergarten, because it was deemed to be too unhealthy,” she said the post.
”He’s a picky eater and was really excited about his breakfast.
”Safe to say I went ballistic on the teacher. My poor boy was so confused and hungry when I got him.”
According to the parent, the nursery did not provide an alternative, leaving the poor tot starving until the end of the day.
The German mum said that her toddler was a ”healthy” and an ”active” little boy, and that she was in regular contact with a paediatrician about his diet.
”[His teachers] told him he can’t have something so unhealthy at kindergarten and that he can eat [the croissant] at home,” the mum explained.
”It’s all very beige and looks unappetising, but I still think it’s a relatively balanced meal for a toddler.
”It also only is breakfast – he has the whole day to eat a lot more.”
The furious mother explained she regularly struggled with feeding the little boy, as he only enjoys ”limited options” and he wasn’t allowed to consume the drink in his fruit pouch either.
”So basically everything I packed sucked,” the mum wrote.
”He had his water and a little bit of apple.”
The three-year-old ate his whole lunchbox after pick-up while totally ”confused” about why the teacher had denied it earlier.
The school requests parents to pack a ”healthy” breakfast – however, there is no list of ”forbidden” foods.
Fellow Redditors were just as outraged by the incident, racing to comments to slam the school and the ”unacceptable” behaviour.
The NHS gives a number of suggestions and guidelines on their Chnage4Life website.
One person working in the childcare industry said: ”As someone who works with kids, I would sooner starve myself than let one of the kids go hungry, especially because an adult took their food without replacing it due to a subjective judgment call regarding how healthy it is.
”And a kindergarten kid is a baby, how do you starve a baby and feel okay about that?”
Another chimed in: ”She could have let him eat it, and if it was really a problem could have said something later.
”It’s a problem between the parents and the teacher, not the teacher and the kid.”
”Is the teacher a nutritionist? Beyond making sure the kid has edible food I’m not sure this is within a teacher’s purview to withhold a meal.”
