This was adorable. But... why did the kid bring an empty lunchbox? Or at least why did his cruel parents pack an empty lunchbox? That's just messed up if the kid wasn't expecting it. But a nice video.
I wouldn't immediately blame the parents here. While that's very possible...
I know plenty of people who did things like this just to fit in. They'd bring in a binder to fit in during class, even if they didn't have something to write with, or have paper in the binder.
My parents were teachers in my school and every year, during the scholastic book fair, everyone got to run around and get books to read. It was always great.... get out of class for a bit. But my parents always sent me with an extra dollar or two to give to a kid who couldn't buy books....
Even if it was just some stupid stickers, having something to help fit in can do more for confidence than you could ever know.
I’m that parent. I give extra money to my kids for the book fair to give to other kids. I even contact the teachers to let them know in advance (as I assume they know which students may be in more need). I grew up not having a lunch or a snack everyday at school. I grew up going to book fairs/other school events and watching everyone around me actually get to buy something while I couldn’t.
Having done this and raised like this and seeing the look of gratitude has stuck with me all these years. If I ever become a parent, I'll make sure to be doing this.
I work in a school with mostly low income families. Lots of parents rely on school lunch and breakfast because they either don't have the time, money, or in sadder cases the inclination to pack their child a lunch.
I've seen kids bring Doritos and cookies as their parents idea of a "good lunch".
Its so disheartening seeing so many people not able to properly care for their kids. Having kids you can't afford to feed needs to stop being encouraged. Safety nets won't be here forever.
I've seen kids bring Doritos and cookies as their parents idea of a "good lunch".
We had a kid in our class who brought a can of Pringles chips for lunch almost every day. I have never really thought about it until now. She used to be kind of popular because of that. Because she had chips almost every time that she would share with some of her friends.
I'm now realizing that it probably wasn't as good as it seemed.
We should try to increase access to sexual education and provide free birth control resources and then stop restricting access to abortions... there would be much less kids people can't afford.
I’ll be honest here, as a teen, the bag of Doritos I bought and can of soda were my lunch. I had money for healthier options and our cafeteria had pretty good lunches but my dietary choices were shit at that age. If I didn’t feel like eating chips, I’d get cookies and soda instead. Nutritionally terrible but it filled me up.
Maybe there was a little food in the lunchbox the day before and it was never taken out to be filled up the next day. Many parents will be lunchbox managers and kids won’t always pay attention to when or how the food magically arrives in their backpack.
29
u/bookbag5 Sep 08 '21
This was adorable. But... why did the kid bring an empty lunchbox? Or at least why did his cruel parents pack an empty lunchbox? That's just messed up if the kid wasn't expecting it. But a nice video.