BY ANNE THOMAS SOFFEE
Posted: 3/8/10 1:34 PM
You would think that two-thirds of the way through the school year, we would have the lunch thing down.
I’m sure you’ll be shocked when I tell you we don’t. Actually, we do have a system. Our system is that we sign The Boy up for a month of hot lunches, and he doesn’t eat them. Then the next month, we tell him he’s getting bag lunch since he didn’t eat the hot lunch, and he doesn’t eat the bag lunch. Toward the end of the month, he starts rhapsodizing about the hot lunch again and how deprived he is not to get it, and we agree to sign him up for it after extracting a solemn promise that he will eat it. And then he doesn’t. Lather, rinse, repeat. I didn’t say it was a good system, but it’s a system.Lest you think he is in danger of wasting away to nothing — his teachers apparently do — he eats a full second lunch when he gets home from school at 12:30. So it’s not like the school lunch is all he gets until dinner. But it’s a shameful amount of food to waste on a daily basis. Read full story
Under the (Parental) Influence
How likely is your child to succumb to the temptations of alcohol use as a teenager? According to a recent study, genetic and environmental factors play a role in children’s interaction with alcohol, meaning that parents can have an impact.
Danielle Dick, assistant professor of psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University, and other researchers studied data collected on more than 5,000 pairs of twins in Finland. “Finland has a central population registry, unlike in the U.S.,” which Read full story
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