Eating snacks?

* The obsession with snack time? Read the NYTimes article here where the author argues that adults are far to co-dependent and obsessed with ensuring children have constant snacks available for possibly hungry children. I loved this article, because parents are often horrified to find we don't serve snack during our school day. Several other classrooms do a handful of goldfish, for instance. We serve breakfast (which for children who eat breakfast at home, is a snack) between 9:00-9:30 and eat lunch at 12:30. We have a busy morning, no activities we would want to cut short for our children--morning meeting, hour of centers, story, outdoor, bathroom twice. In the afternoon, our students either go to aftercare, where they get a snack or home, where they could get a snack. We find our students eat more of their lunch and learn to try different foods at breakfast snack. We don't mean to deny anyone--we don't want our children do truly be hungry! We find the complaint time is in the 30 minutes before lunch when we are walking back from the playground to wash hands and eat--sort of a good time to be hungry! We find our students adjust in a few weeks (just as they do to being away from home, bathroom schedule, etc).