December 8
What are they thinking...I don’t want my kids to stand out. Being a parent must be even tougher than just managing yourself because now you are worried also about how your child fits in. The commercials from the manufacturer of a pre-boxed kid’s lunch are a perfect example of how advertisers take advantage of this: you are a bad parent and are going to have a sad, reject, loser kid if you don’t give them this boxed, plastic wrapped processed crap.
So many parents tell me that they don’t want their kid to “stand out” by eating a healthy lunch from home – and God forbid it be tuna. Fortunately, I am told, this pressure to eat just like every other kid (likely some kind of inexpensive starch and fat combo) is getting alleviated as our schools become more ethnically diverse and kids are bringing their traditional foods for lunch. And, I am always concerned that I will seem pompous when I say things about kids (not being a parent), but I wonder if eating a healthy lunch, because it is not the norm, could end up being good practice for our kids to learn “march to the beat of their own drummer” for when it comes to decisions about cigarettes, alcohol and drugs.
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