emotional over lunch

The last couple days Zach has come home very emotional.  They told me that 1st grade would be exhausting for the first few weeks - I didn’t realize just how true that was.

Our emotional break downs have happened around the subject of lunch.

The first day of school I told Zach that I was going to put a note in his cold lunch, if that was okay with him.  I wanted to make sure a note wouldn’t embarrass him.

Zach’s face fell and he started sobbing.  I back tracked and told him not to worry, I wouldn’t put a note in his lunch.  This made him cry even harder.  When he finally settled down he said, “Mommmm - I can’t read!”

I told him I would only write things that he could read.  I showed him a couple examples and promised I wouldn’t write any words he didn’t know yet.

The next day Zach brought home the hot lunch menu.  He wanted to get hot lunch because he saw that they had french fries for lunch.  I explained that if he took hot lunch, he had to eat everything, not just the french fries.

So we read the next day’s lunch - pizza, salad and apple slices.  Zach burst into tears.  He sobbed that he wanted pizza, but he couldn’t eat the salad.   Luckily we were having pizza for dinner, so I could stick a couple cold pieces in his lunch.

Who knew lunch could be so stressful?!

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