It sounds like the center needs to cut breakfast off in house completely. That would work best for everyone. That way the kids would come completely fed and they would not need staff to supervise the eating and clean the child up.

Maybe you could talk to them and let them know that the changes in times and new rules are too confusing to you and you are going to go ahead and just feed him a wonderful breakfast at home. You will find that he LOVES sitting at the table with you to a healthy hearty home made breakfast. It's an awesome time to cook for your child and spend some REAL quality time with him before he starts his day.

Preparing and serving the breakfast is the EASY part in group care. The WORK is in the supervising the child eating and cleaning it up. The work is in supervising the other kids while one or two kids eat and supervising them while you are cleaning it up.

So the part you are doing (giving a ready to serve food and sitting him at the table) is not really doing them any good. You are still leaving the bulk of the breakfast work for them. When they have numerous parents deciding when their staff will supervise and clean up individual breakfast they are loosing money. They are most likely WAY too busy to do individual attention at that time of day. A worker who has multiple children from multiple families is just WAY busier than any single parent with one, two, or three kids.

She may have asked about the granola bar because most granola bars kids will eat are actually candy bars nutritionally. When other kids see them they think the child is being candy. They have had them before themselves and they know how sugary and fatty they are. They are most likely have kids want them because the other kids know the granola bars they have had taste like candy.

You think nine a.m. is reasonable. The next parent thinks ten. The next thinks ten thirty. There's NO way to get a group of parents to agree on what is best for the GROUP. That has to be done by the center.

They should NOT have sprung this on you. It sounds like they need to completely cut off breakfast or set an EARLY time when it must be DONE and only allow the kids to eat the center provided food. No food from home would solve this really quickly.

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