By the time the teachers get the packaged lunches open lunch is almost over. Kids barely have time to eat and the teacher never did get their lunch. Seriously, folks, how much effort to pack a sandwich ? There are several TH-cam channels that will show you how to pack school lunches
Gerry I absolutely love you! I am a lead cook for en elementary school in Kent, Ohio and Capri Suns are the absolute worst. My monitors will spend an entire lunch period opening them for our kids. Let’s not forget fruit cups. I have worn the juice of many.
Yes! The Capri Suns aren't as hard to open as they used to be, but those fruit cups are THE WORST! I loathe those with the power if 1,000 fiery suns! Five years or recess duty has taught me a few things! 😅
In SC teachers have to eat with students (no monitors) and can you imagine opening 5-8 of those!!! Then our team takes turns watching the students while one teacher uses bathroom. Teachers will only have 15 minutes to eat!
wait...the universe doesn't revolve around me? Schools don't change their scheduled days off and conform to my desired vacation plans? That's just CRAZY TALK!!!
Martin Stringer crazy thing I work at a university & had a student tell me about her family cruise coming up in a few weeks...guess what else starts in a few weeks? You guessed it, classes! She wanted to know if it’s a way around missing the few week of classes until she returns 🙄
@@trackgrad08 I love college but I hate it. The one thing I had to get used to was Homework I never had Homework in my life before college . Also being allowed to use the restroom when I wanted .
My diabetic student’s blood sugar is 57 and I cannot get the Capri Sun open! Today I’ve learned the TP method. Mr. Brooks you’ve saved countless lives!
Lunchables are straight from Hell. Not included here are pudding cups, fruit cups, yogurt....well just about everything. Parents: see if your kid can open the crap you send in their lunchbox!!
And practice with them any chance you get! Tearing paper, helping to open chip bags, get that finger and thumb pincer grip strength so they can have an easier time opening milk cartons and such. Kids CAN do these things with enough practice and patience once their fine motor skills develop a little bit.
I tried to be mindful when mine was little. He has a motor skill disability in his hands so we are just now where he can open most things and he's 13. I suggest glad wear in all sizes, it's easier for little hands. I also suggest old school juice boxes. If you cant open something with thick gloves on your small child cant open it. That's what I learned
My child knows how to open the healthy food sent from home however they have never seen milk SEALED UP IN A CARTON and have no clue how to access the milk. Do you how difficult it is to find beverages in small cartons for practice at home? No. I'm not buying heavy cream, etc that I have no use for to give them this practice.
We have so many coming in with bottled water and other bottles with tight lids. Like how's the kindergartener supposed to open that? I have trouble opening them!
Testing kindergartners on computers in the first two weeks of school?! You have my sympathy, sir, as do all the teachers dealing with ridiculousness like that. I have high schoolers who don't know what a computer mouse is, so I'm not surprised that the small ones don't know! I remember having computer time in elementary school, where we learned to type and use a mouse and save on floppy disks. It's strange to think in one lifetime we've come so far, and yet districts are stuck using outdated tech as if it's state of the art.
Thank you Gerry! I can’t tell you how many times I had to prepare work for students who were going on vacation during the school year and then of course the work was never done!
Yes! The work isn’t done AND you are reminded that board policy allows for one day per absence to make up work. Great! Now the student is twice as far behind. Next comes the request for tutoring during lunch ‘cause they’re always late to school and are too busy after school to stay.
OMG I can’t even count the number of Capri Suns I’ve opened these past years for students and please don’t even get me started on the annoying lunches in a box. Even I have struggled with a few Capri Suns and I’m amazed that some of the younger students can actually open them on their own. Gerry you are awesome 👏🏼 Note to lazy parents: please take a little time and pack a healthier lunch and one that doesn’t include a bunch of plastic that will most likely end up floating in the ocean. I’m just saying
likeablisterinthesun They need to give kids more time to eat. It's unhealthy to give kids very little time to eat. Looks like it's even affecting the stress level of the lunch duty.
I’m a retired kindergarten teacher and I’d like to add Gogurt to the list of terrible things to send to school with your child. It’s a big mess in a tube that the kids can’t open, so they gunk up the scissors with yogurt when they cut the top off.
The lunchables🤦🏻♀️Then they can’t make the pizzas either so you have to squeeze the pizza sauce for them too. Also the fruit cups, the juice gets everywhere. 😂😭
Amen! I got So sick of opening lunchables, gogurts, fruit cups, juice boxes, Capri Suns, etc. for my kindergarten students! On top of that, teach your kids to tie their own shoes! Seriously. I'm trying to teach & 4 kids need their shoes tied!😵
I have 1 to add!! Teaching your kids their FIRST AND LAST NAMES!! It always amazes me that these little Kindergarten kids don't know their names. It makes it hard for us cafe staff when checking them out.
LOL my parents took us to Disney world one time during the school year, and my second grade teacher made my life hell. I spent so much time in the hotel room doing homework
Jess N.: Sorry to hear that your little 8 year old self was stuck doing so much homework on your Disney trip. Pardon the bluntness, but an arguement could also be made that your parents made your life hell, by scheduling a trip to Dinsneyland over school days. As a 5th grade teacher, I hate putting together work packets for students who are taking vacations during the school year. So much of what I do in class is cooperative and interactive learning experiences, and trying to find papercopies of somewhat equivalent work is extremely time consuming, and the paperwork involved in an excused leave of absense required by the district is ridiculous. I hate when parents say, "Just send home the work they were supposed to do today." I can't "send home" cooperative leaning adventures which become an intergral part scaffolding the progression of rigor with the curriculum.
I am guilty of sending the lunchables and capri suns. My child will not eat any of the traditional lunch items. He does not like bread , cheese, pasta, cake ( thats bread) oddly he will eat a waffle, but only hot, with hot syrup once it is cold nope, will not eat, meat, will only eat raw carrots and sometimes hot broccoli, apples, oranges and grapes. Before I get blasted for not trying. He is a kid that only drank milk until he was 2 years old. He was not introduced to soild food until he came to live with me. So the fact he is eating a lunchable now is a step up for him. Sometimes it is not a lazy parent thing happening. But he does know how to open his lunchables ( I only send the cracker ones), yogurt and capri suns and I always add fruit to it.
@@smokeonit2322 I have tried the not sending a lunch thing and ended up with a ravenous 6 year old after schoo! who has had nothing to eat all day (he is not a fan of cereal either, but can get him to eat oatmeal now) . He comes home cranky, whiny and weepy from lack of food. His gag reflex is amazing, if I give him something he finds objectionable he rainbow vomits everywhere! Learned that the hard way as did a teacher friend. She took him to dinner and forced him to eat something he told her he did not like. She decided he would listen to her and that I was being too easy on him. Well he rainbow vomited on her and two more times on the table. She was horrified and my step-daughter (who was there) had a great laugh at her expense. I have been slowly introducing him to foods and recently we discovered he likes cucumbers. So now I sometimes place cucumbers in his lunch box. He is a kid coming from a hard place and the last thing I want to do is force feed him or allow him to go hungry.
I am so glad my children are grown! I'd lose my mind over half of this stuff! 🤣🤣🤣 But on a surious note, I feel for my kids b/c they now have churdren and they have to deal with it!
LOL on the juice bags, we had the problem with juice bags being used as squirt guns, kids started bringing multiple bags in their lunch, and others stockpiled their juice bags to have more for these fights.
Oh yes! Had a girl miss 10 days of school the week AFTER Spring Break, for a family cruise. By the time the parents could afford to go, the cruise they wanted (during SB) was booked. Sure...just go for a full week of school. NBD?
Lisa Zimmerman Sorry, I don’t understand. Why does it matter if a kid misses a couple weeks of elementary school? 10 or 20 years from now what is the child going to remember, their special cruise and special memories made with family, or an extra week of preparation for standardized tests?
Lisa Zimmerman Ah, that makes more sense. Luckily state testing matters basically never after kids graduate. Still would have been better for them to time it with the break though!
Worse then the Capri suns are the "Organic juice" packet things. They don't even have a perforation like the capri suns do for the straw to go through and us teachers have THE HARDEST time opening those for the kids. Many times I've accidentally stabbed the straw clear through both sides and end up just dumping the whole drink into a cup for the poor kid.
Another food it’s always hard for kids to open are the Gogurts. Those a great but every time I went to open for a kid during snack and yogurt would explode everywhere!
What?! Calendars! What a great idea! Another idea is making sure you have the correct calendar for the district where your child attends, not where you live. Also, if your child says there is no school, why not check the calendar instead of waiting for the attendance call? "My child said....." is not an excuse absence!
I have to agree with these things. I’ve volunteered with children in the age group of Kindergarten through 2nd grade. The kids don’t really know how to open these things. I would think personally that maybe making a sandwich with apple slices and a reusable water bottle would be better. Better yet, if you want zero effort put leftovers to be give. To your child. As an adult who was raised by really lazy parenting I never got a proper lunch meal until high school. All I ever ate was chicken nuggets with chocolate milk (Before 2008) brownies.
Our alternative is large squeeze bottles of condiments on their tables...of which many students simply suck right out of the bottles. I never eat ketchup or mustard at school. Never. Nope.
I APOLOGIZE to all the teachers!!! I am guilty 🤦🏾♀️ I didn't realize until my third (on a weekend, by happenstance). When you know better, you do better! My last baby just finished kindergarten, but we worked almost two months on packaged foods! Healthier tend to be easier. (think bottled water, foods in wax paper, paper lunchbags or.... put 4 lunchboxes on your school supply list because they WILL throw away or lose a few 🤷🏾♀️)
As somebody born in '96, the concept of having to teach a kindergartner how to use a mouse is wild. Not only was I used to using a computer mouse and computer at that time (they've got games on those things!) but we rarely used them in school until like, high school. I'm pretty certain we never had computer access in kindergarten, much less got tested on them. The spread of technology now is wild.
Thank you for calling them computer "mouses". I can't, however, agree with your opinion of not taking kids out of school when it's not a break. You're not running a prison where I can only visit on weekends and holidays. If I see fit to pull my kids out of school for a day or two or fourteen, that's my right. Now with that opinion stated, I should be coordinating with the teacher and making sure I am teaching my child the lessons they missed, which most parents probably wouldn't do.
In our district, students absent more than a certain number of days (without a valid medical excuse) are retained... It's not a school or principal policy... we have mandates from the federal and state levels as to how many minutes of instruction students must have.
One thing to think about is that this is setting a life-example for your kids. Why go to work every day, just because they pay you? You don't think things carry over, but they do. My two grown children complain about this all the time with co-workers who just don't show up because the sun was shining and they wanted to go to the beach or whatever!
I hope the food manufacturers you mentioned in this video see your video. It is incumbent on THEM not the child's parent, guardian or teacher to provide access processed food snacks😂
I've always loved your wit and wisdom! But one thing I have to take issue with is that, as a parent, I should be able to schedule our family vacation when I see fit, not according to the school's calendar that I don't have any say in setting. Educators can take days off during the school year. I and my children/students should be afforded that same courtesy.
Is that how it’s done??! I never knew that and I’ve been an educated for 20 years. Thank you! P.S. how did you know that? Are there directions on the back that I missed??
Exactly... Parents think.. well the teacher can do it but guess what 25 other parents thought the same thing and after I've opened up every child's lunchable I've not had my lunch 😳
Great tutorial. Most parents do too much enabling! They think they are helping! And K teachers are being told we are too hard on them for not doing it for them.😮 Uhh what happened to high expectations ..
I work in school and how bout tha parents that send glass containers to have us heat up their food!! Plus keep hearing in news how much money kids owe, parents just fill out form n save kids tha agrevassion
ya know, if you go back to pencil and paper, teaching reading writing and math, stop with the other nonsense that teachers and schools have no business teaching..life might be a little easier. The schools are messed up anymore now anyways..yeah I have worked in them so I can speak on it for fact, not opinion
By the time the teachers get the packaged lunches open lunch is almost over. Kids barely have time to eat and the teacher never did get their lunch.
Seriously, folks, how much effort to pack a sandwich ? There are several TH-cam channels that will show you how to pack school lunches
Gerry I absolutely love you! I am a lead cook for en elementary school in Kent, Ohio and Capri Suns are the absolute worst. My monitors will spend an entire lunch period opening them for our kids. Let’s not forget fruit cups. I have worn the juice of many.
Why do they put so much juice with the fruit?? It helps if you open it facing away from your body.
Pam Weese those things ALWAYS squirt juice! Ugh
Yes! The Capri Suns aren't as hard to open as they used to be, but those fruit cups are THE WORST! I loathe those with the power if 1,000 fiery suns! Five years or recess duty has taught me a few things! 😅
In SC teachers have to eat with students (no monitors) and can you imagine opening 5-8 of those!!! Then our team takes turns watching the students while one teacher uses bathroom. Teachers will only have 15 minutes to eat!
Charmaine Cruz OMG! My hat is off to you. Know that you are making a difference in those little ones lives.
wait...the universe doesn't revolve around me? Schools don't change their scheduled days off and conform to my desired vacation plans? That's just CRAZY TALK!!!
Martin Stringer crazy thing I work at a university & had a student tell me about her family cruise coming up in a few weeks...guess what else starts in a few weeks? You guessed it, classes! She wanted to know if it’s a way around missing the few week of classes until she returns 🙄
@@trackgrad08 I love college but I hate it. The one thing I had to get used to was Homework I never had Homework in my life before college . Also being allowed to use the restroom when I wanted .
My diabetic student’s blood sugar is 57 and I cannot get the Capri Sun open! Today I’ve learned the TP method. Mr. Brooks you’ve saved countless lives!
Lunchables are straight from Hell. Not included here are pudding cups, fruit cups, yogurt....well just about everything. Parents: see if your kid can open the crap you send in their lunchbox!!
And practice with them any chance you get! Tearing paper, helping to open chip bags, get that finger and thumb pincer grip strength so they can have an easier time opening milk cartons and such. Kids CAN do these things with enough practice and patience once their fine motor skills develop a little bit.
I tried to be mindful when mine was little. He has a motor skill disability in his hands so we are just now where he can open most things and he's 13.
I suggest glad wear in all sizes, it's easier for little hands. I also suggest old school juice boxes.
If you cant open something with thick gloves on your small child cant open it. That's what I learned
I appreciate this!
My child knows how to open the healthy food sent from home however they have never seen milk SEALED UP IN A CARTON and have no clue how to access the milk. Do you how difficult it is to find beverages in small cartons for practice at home? No. I'm not buying heavy cream, etc that I have no use for to give them this practice.
We have so many coming in with bottled water and other bottles with tight lids. Like how's the kindergartener supposed to open that? I have trouble opening them!
“You can get a computer mouse at a Goodwill.” 🤣
R Williams believe it or not, the two Goodwill stores close to me always have several of them and...they’re always a tangled wadded up mess! 🤣🤣🤣
Testing kindergartners on computers in the first two weeks of school?! You have my sympathy, sir, as do all the teachers dealing with ridiculousness like that. I have high schoolers who don't know what a computer mouse is, so I'm not surprised that the small ones don't know! I remember having computer time in elementary school, where we learned to type and use a mouse and save on floppy disks. It's strange to think in one lifetime we've come so far, and yet districts are stuck using outdated tech as if it's state of the art.
Thank you Gerry! I can’t tell you how many times I had to prepare work for students who were going on vacation during the school year and then of course the work was never done!
Yes! The work isn’t done AND you are reminded that board policy allows for one day per absence to make up work. Great! Now the student is twice as far behind. Next comes the request for tutoring during lunch ‘cause they’re always late to school and are too busy after school to stay.
OMG I can’t even count the number of Capri Suns I’ve opened these past years for students and please don’t even get me started on the annoying lunches in a box. Even I have struggled with a few Capri Suns and I’m amazed that some of the younger students can actually open them on their own. Gerry you are awesome 👏🏼
Note to lazy parents: please take a little time and pack a healthier lunch and one that doesn’t include a bunch of plastic that will most likely end up floating in the ocean. I’m just saying
My sister needs the Capri Sun tutorial...she is 48 years old 🤣
'Family Time' putting food into baggies..!!!
LOVE IT
The greatest invention since sliced bread......Zip-Lock baggies!!!
.... I never knew how to properly open a Capri Sun... my mind is blown....
Oh please do one begging “puuurhents” to not send their kids to school in clothes they can’t maneuver on their own - buttons, zippers, and laces!
Add the Gogurts and you're set! Haha suriously love you!!
There are two of us on lunch duty for 5 kindergarten classes of 25 children. By the time I open last item lunch is over!
My teacher lunch duty kit: small pair of scissors, wipes, small hand sanitizer and whistle.
@@likeablisterinthesun whoo that's a STRUGGLE!! makes me miss the days of metal lunch boxes and thermoses with Scooby Doo.
likeablisterinthesun I teach 5th and that’s also my kit! 😂
likeablisterinthesun They need to give kids more time to eat. It's unhealthy to give kids very little time to eat. Looks like it's even affecting the stress level of the lunch duty.
I’m a retired kindergarten teacher and I’d like to add Gogurt to the list of terrible things to send to school with your child. It’s a big mess in a tube that the kids can’t open, so they gunk up the scissors with yogurt when they cut the top off.
As a Substitute who routinely does lunch room duty I totally agree with the Lunchables comment! I spend the whole lunch time opening them up.
I snorted when his voice almost cracked on his desperate plea to not send CapriSun to school. 🤣
My kid knows how to properly open a Capri Sun. It's opening the carton of milk provided by the school that needs to be addressed.
As a parent of an incoming kindergartner, this is good to know!
If the parents worked at let say a bank... would they give up their lunch time walking around opening lunchables? I don’t think so 😎
The lunchables🤦🏻♀️Then they can’t make the pizzas either so you have to squeeze the pizza sauce for them too. Also the fruit cups, the juice gets everywhere. 😂😭
Oh the trials and tribulations. Maybe some parents need to go back to school??
Trish Rowland And some teachers should not be teaching, but they've got alot to learn.
I teach high school so I am sending prayers and best wishes to those kindergarten teachers and those who test so early in the year!!!
If you think those are tough, have them open a real orange! It's crazy how many kids don't eat oranges because they don't know how to open them!
Send water to school they don’t need any more sugar. Parents it’s your job to make your children’s lunch it’s more nutritious for them.
Diana The schools are supposed to provide nutritious lunch for their students. That's why people are giving taxes for school.
I don't see how people can thumbs down this guy....he's great!
Amen! I got So sick of opening lunchables, gogurts, fruit cups, juice boxes, Capri Suns, etc. for my kindergarten students! On top of that, teach your kids to tie their own shoes! Seriously. I'm trying to teach & 4 kids need their shoes tied!😵
I have 1 to add!! Teaching your kids their FIRST AND LAST NAMES!! It always amazes me that these little Kindergarten kids don't know their names. It makes it hard for us cafe staff when checking them out.
LOL my parents took us to Disney world one time during the school year, and my second grade teacher made my life hell. I spent so much time in the hotel room doing homework
Jess N.: Sorry to hear that your little 8 year old self was stuck doing so much homework on your Disney trip. Pardon the bluntness, but an arguement could also be made that your parents made your life hell, by scheduling a trip to Dinsneyland over school days. As a 5th grade teacher, I hate putting together work packets for students who are taking vacations during the school year. So much of what I do in class is cooperative and interactive learning experiences, and trying to find papercopies of somewhat equivalent work is extremely time consuming, and the paperwork involved in an excused leave of absense required by the district is ridiculous.
I hate when parents say, "Just send home the work they were supposed to do today." I can't "send home" cooperative leaning adventures which become an intergral part scaffolding the progression of rigor with the curriculum.
I just about pee’d my pants watching him. I loved this !!!
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while some are still on summer break, we started school today in Arizona for some schools, july 31st! SN: derlicious little cookie is still hilarious!
😮😮😮 School already?
Seriously love your attitude! Spot on. Thanks for the grins & giggles.
We also can't refrigerate the Lunchables so they may or may not be safe to eat by lunchtime.
I am guilty of sending the lunchables and capri suns. My child will not eat any of the traditional lunch items. He does not like bread , cheese, pasta, cake ( thats bread) oddly he will eat a waffle, but only hot, with hot syrup once it is cold nope, will not eat, meat, will only eat raw carrots and sometimes hot broccoli, apples, oranges and grapes. Before I get blasted for not trying. He is a kid that only drank milk until he was 2 years old. He was not introduced to soild food until he came to live with me. So the fact he is eating a lunchable now is a step up for him. Sometimes it is not a lazy parent thing happening. But he does know how to open his lunchables ( I only send the cracker ones), yogurt and capri suns and I always add fruit to it.
Esclava2one Like I tell my own children... and my first grade students, “The hungry will eat anything.”
@@smokeonit2322 I have tried the not sending a lunch thing and ended up with a ravenous 6 year old after schoo! who has had nothing to eat all day (he is not a fan of cereal either, but can get him to eat oatmeal now) . He comes home cranky, whiny and weepy from lack of food. His gag reflex is amazing, if I give him something he finds objectionable he rainbow vomits everywhere! Learned that the hard way as did a teacher friend. She took him to dinner and forced him to eat something he told her he did not like. She decided he would listen to her and that I was being too easy on him. Well he rainbow vomited on her and two more times on the table. She was horrified and my step-daughter (who was there) had a great laugh at her expense. I have been slowly introducing him to foods and recently we discovered he likes cucumbers. So now I sometimes place cucumbers in his lunch box. He is a kid coming from a hard place and the last thing I want to do is force feed him or allow him to go hungry.
AMEN! Know what else?! Those stupid fruit cups filled to the brim with juice!
Oh yeah! You pull the plastic up and juices flow everywhere...usually on me!!!
I am so glad my children are grown! I'd lose my mind over half of this stuff! 🤣🤣🤣 But on a surious note, I feel for my kids b/c they now have churdren and they have to deal with it!
Seriously Parents...please listen we don't have to time open hundreds of Capri Suns every day.
LOL on the juice bags, we had the problem with juice bags being used as squirt guns, kids started bringing multiple bags in their lunch, and others stockpiled their juice bags to have more for these fights.
Just came across you in suggestions and you are funny as hell and very honest 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I do love him so much!!! Every single thing he tells parents!!! Wonderful person!!!
Oh yes! Had a girl miss 10 days of school the week AFTER Spring Break, for a family cruise. By the time the parents could afford to go, the cruise they wanted (during SB) was booked. Sure...just go for a full week of school. NBD?
Lisa Zimmerman Sorry, I don’t understand. Why does it matter if a kid misses a couple weeks of elementary school? 10 or 20 years from now what is the child going to remember, their special cruise and special memories made with family, or an extra week of preparation for standardized tests?
Emily Kerby my student was in high school, and missed an entire unit just before state testing.
Lisa Zimmerman Ah, that makes more sense. Luckily state testing matters basically never after kids graduate. Still would have been better for them to time it with the break though!
Tell em,Gerry😂This is hilarious but so true.
You are awesome, sir! Don’t stop making these videos. They lighten up my day during these dark pandemic days!
Could you please do a video on the Lost & Table! Thank you teaching me the best way to open a Capri Sun.
Worse then the Capri suns are the "Organic juice" packet things. They don't even have a perforation like the capri suns do for the straw to go through and us teachers have THE HARDEST time opening those for the kids. Many times I've accidentally stabbed the straw clear through both sides and end up just dumping the whole drink into a cup for the poor kid.
Best advice for parents, if only they would wear their listening ears!!!!
I freaking love Gerry! Can you imagine being one of the parents at his school? Low-key being called out right now 😂
I just learned a new way to open a Capri Sun juice pouch by watching this! 😆
AMEN
I let my son learn how to use the juice pack at home a few times till he master it then I let him bring the juice packs to school
Not to mention Lunchables and Capri Sun are horribly unhealthy!
Lunchables are a number one cause of adhd-like behavior in children.
Yes, yes, yes!! Thank you for the PSA!!
The mouse thing is so real. So real.
Now I know why the kids are the way they are. They get it from their parents. (I am a sub)
Doing lunch duty this year with kindergarten, I commented so many times to the others "why do these parents send these things the kids can't open?"
I always stock up on aspirin as I help out with K lunch the first week opening the exact stuff you mentioned!
Another food it’s always hard for kids to open are the Gogurts. Those a great but every time I went to open for a kid during snack and yogurt would explode everywhere!
What?! Calendars! What a great idea! Another idea is making sure you have the correct calendar for the district where your child attends, not where you live. Also, if your child says there is no school, why not check the calendar instead of waiting for the attendance call? "My child said....." is not an excuse absence!
Good grief you school teachers are saints. I homeschool but think y'all are completely amazing.
I have to agree with these things. I’ve volunteered with children in the age group of Kindergarten through 2nd grade. The kids don’t really know how to open these things. I would think personally that maybe making a sandwich with apple slices and a reusable water bottle would be better. Better yet, if you want zero effort put leftovers to be give. To your child. As an adult who was raised by really lazy parenting I never got a proper lunch meal until high school. All I ever ate was chicken nuggets with chocolate milk (Before 2008) brownies.
Mr. Brooks, you say everything we are afraid of saying!!!!
How about ketchup and syrup packages. Nothing worse than a squished ketchup package in the hallway!
Our alternative is large squeeze bottles of condiments on their tables...of which many students simply suck right out of the bottles. I never eat ketchup or mustard at school. Never. Nope.
I have never had to squeeze the capri sun juice pouch or use my thumb to put the straw in. I'm a 90's baby!
I love the way you talk. You remind me of home and the way I talked when I left..
Love that!!! "What a great family time."
I APOLOGIZE to all the teachers!!! I am guilty 🤦🏾♀️ I didn't realize until my third (on a weekend, by happenstance). When you know better, you do better! My last baby just finished kindergarten, but we worked almost two months on packaged foods! Healthier tend to be easier. (think bottled water, foods in wax paper, paper lunchbags or.... put 4 lunchboxes on your school supply list because they WILL throw away or lose a few 🤷🏾♀️)
My children are all grown, thank goodness. I just enjoy watching you have to explain how to open la capri sun. Lol
Please expand this into a series!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
As somebody born in '96, the concept of having to teach a kindergartner how to use a mouse is wild. Not only was I used to using a computer mouse and computer at that time (they've got games on those things!) but we rarely used them in school until like, high school. I'm pretty certain we never had computer access in kindergarten, much less got tested on them. The spread of technology now is wild.
Thank you for calling them computer "mouses". I can't, however, agree with your opinion of not taking kids out of school when it's not a break. You're not running a prison where I can only visit on weekends and holidays. If I see fit to pull my kids out of school for a day or two or fourteen, that's my right. Now with that opinion stated, I should be coordinating with the teacher and making sure I am teaching my child the lessons they missed, which most parents probably wouldn't do.
In our district, students absent more than a certain number of days (without a valid medical excuse) are retained... It's not a school or principal policy... we have mandates from the federal and state levels as to how many minutes of instruction students must have.
One thing to think about is that this is setting a life-example for your kids. Why go to work every day, just because they pay you? You don't think things carry over, but they do. My two grown children complain about this all the time with co-workers who just don't show up because the sun was shining and they wanted to go to the beach or whatever!
Hmm.......Those darn thermos are impossible to get open too.
Mr. Brooks, where are you from? You have a distinct accent from what I hear.
Lol- the lunchable part cracked me up
Where did you find a lunchable with a dessert pizza? I remember having them when I was younger!
I did lunch duty for years, this is great.
I’m first!!! Sounds like kids on the playground 😂🤪🤣
Funny, and so true! Glad i found you!
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I loved the taste of Capri Suns, but hated how to open them. I would open them, but it spelt every time!!!
I hope the food manufacturers you mentioned in this video see your video. It is incumbent on THEM not the child's parent, guardian or teacher to provide access processed food snacks😂
I've always loved your wit and wisdom! But one thing I have to take issue with is that, as a parent, I should be able to schedule our family vacation when I see fit, not according to the school's calendar that I don't have any say in setting. Educators can take days off during the school year. I and my children/students should be afforded that same courtesy.
@V C Of course. I don't expect the teacher to accommodate me and my schedule any more than I would expect to accommodate theirs.
Such good timing. Today a parent told me they are off on holiday for.. 2 months!
What a fun family time!
Is that how it’s done??! I never knew that and I’ve been an educated for 20 years. Thank you! P.S. how did you know that? Are there directions on the back that I missed??
Exactly... Parents think.. well the teacher can do it but guess what 25 other parents thought the same thing and after I've opened up every child's lunchable I've not had my lunch 😳
Great tutorial. Most parents do too much enabling! They think they are helping! And K teachers are being told we are too hard on them for not doing it for them.😮 Uhh what happened to high expectations ..
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Brilliant
I am 55, I just learned the right of opening a Capri sun. My grandchildren thank you. Lol
As a parent and a teacher...WHY THE HECK TO PEOPLE SCHEDULE VACATIONS DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR!?!?
I loved it..thank you sir from a grandmother....
I work in school and how bout tha parents that send glass containers to have us heat up their food!! Plus keep hearing in news how much money kids owe, parents just fill out form n save kids tha agrevassion
Im so glad I found you!!!
I am 51 and still can't get the dam straw in their.
Hahahahaha!
Thank you for the free THERAPY I needed the day before I go back to school!😂😂😂❤️
ya know, if you go back to pencil and paper, teaching reading writing and math, stop with the other nonsense that teachers and schools have no business teaching..life might be a little easier. The schools are messed up anymore now anyways..yeah I have worked in them so I can speak on it for fact, not opinion
The school calendar was the best! Winter break does NOT begin on 12/1 and end on 1/31 because you want to visit your country of origin!!! Lol
You are the bomb.com!
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The fruit cups are the worst! They can't open them and then I get juice all over me and probably slobber from them trying to open it! 😆
When they do try to open the lunchable everything suddenly flies out of the lunchable everywhere!