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    Breakfast?

    Hi everyone, just wanted to see if providing breakfast for your daycare kids is the norm? I currently do breakfast, am snack, lunch, pm snack.....hubby suggested this may be overdoing it and that the kids that arrive early should maybe have breakie at home before the arrive...any thoughts?

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    I was providing break but I do not anymore. I just like it when they come to be able to start the day. Some of my dck where taking a really long time to eat and it was interfering with our routine. It's a lot easier with them arriving ready for the day

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    I serve a parent provided breakfast to any child arriving before 7:30. After 730 they must have been fed and ready to go.

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    I just do an AM snack, Lunch and PM snack. the kids need to show up feed and ready for the day. I am not their parent and the agencies don't pay me enough to serve breakfast.
    If you want to sever breakfast and its not the norm. in your area I would charge a little extra for it, to help cover the cost.

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    I serve breakfast at 8:30 but no AM snack. We eat lunch at 11, so I think a snack would ruin everyone's appetites. Kids who come late in the mornings have usually just had breakfast anyway.

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    I open at 7:30 and everyone must come fed, dressed and ready for the day!!!

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    I serve Breakfast but they must be here by no later than 7:55am.

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    I don't serve breakfast. I serve snack at 9:30, earlier in the summer when we can get outside earlier.

    I think it's really important for children to eat when they wake up and I don't think it sets the right tone for the day if parents yank them out of bed and into the car.

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    I found offering breakfast made parents lazy but also was bad for the kids because they woke up hungry and parents gave them a granola bar or something to tide them over to breakfast but what it did was spoil their appetite so that they wasted food.

    I also found once the kids got here they were more interested in playing with their friends than eating. And depending on arrival some were waiting and starving so it was crazy and cranky people everywhere.

    Once I stopped and expected kids to come fed it was actually much better. Morning snack is served early and designed to top up those that ate early or poorly.

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    I serve breakfast at 8:30 after all of the children arrive because we head outside as many days as possible shortly after 9am until 11am. I'd rather serve a nutritious breakfast to the children than to have them arrive sugared up from quickie breakfast foods like poptarts, ew!

    I serve lunch 3 hours later at 11:30 and afternoon snack after nap at about 3pm.
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