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Mom buys chocolate milk offered by school for son’s snack, then the teacher shames her for it
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Britanie Leclair
09.24.17

Parenting in this day and age can be a battlefield. With constant criticisms, in combination with more and more control being put over our children’s lives, it can sometimes feel like we can’t do anything right.

Earlier in September, Constance Hall, a mother of 6, was made to feel less than after she was criticized for her son’s recess snack— chocolate milk.

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Constance, who used to blog on Like a Queen and host the radio show Queen Sesh, has four biological children and two step kids.

The mother purchases lunch orders for her 5-year-old son Arlo through his school and generally selects yogurt and chocolate milk as his recess snack.

One day, out of nowhere, Arlo approached his mother and told her, “I wish that you didn’t get me the chocolate milk… The teachers don’t let me have it.”

Constance was confused by Arlo’s statement considering chocolate milk was an option offered by the school— but when she addressed his teacher, she was told it was only appropriate for lunch.

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On her radio show, Constance describes the incident, saying, “I said to the teacher, ‘Really? The options are that or juice, and because he can’t have any bread or anything substantial, I give him the milk to line his tummy a bit because he’s probably hungry.”

She also says she had to endure an “awkward” lecture about nutrition— one that may have really hurt her feelings under different circumstances.

She explains, “There are other mothers who can’t even afford to do lunch orders, and then for them to get shamed about what they’re giving their kids for recess? I just don’t like it.”

“When I was at my lowest, I couldn’t even afford to do lunch orders, and I had twin babies, newborn babies, I was living on my own, and I couldn’t even get to the supermarket.”

“Power to the people! Let them drink milk!”

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According to Dr. Weil, many schools throughout the United States have been trying to remove flavored milks from their menus, claiming the drinks house an abundance of sugar and calories.

Weil personally believes that milk is overrated, noting that “except for people of northern European origin, most adults worldwide can’t digest lactose.”

He also states that casein, the protein in milk, has been known to worse allergy symptoms and has also been associated with chronic ear infections, chronic bronchitis, eczema, asthma, and sinus conditions

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Personally, I understand the controversy— but if you’re going to remove milk from the menu, why not just remove it all together instead of saying it’s only acceptable for lunch?

Kind of sounds like they’re giving mixed messages here.

What do you all think?

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source: Fox News

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