school meals

School Meals

If you are unable to have your children at home in the middle of the day they will have to have school dinners as children are not normally allowed to take packed lunches. Bear in mind that the menu will be entirely Spanish, and that Spanish parents expect their children to eat a good-sized lunch.

Dinner monitors will firmly encourage your child to eat, which can be traumatic if they are used to a more relaxed attitude at home, and given that your child will not always understand everything that is being said. Your child may come home complaining of being force-fed something that he or she found disgusting to eat. Your child will not have been force-fed, but will have been cajoled into making an effort, as happens to all Spanish children at meal times. Again, tact and understanding is needed to deal with this problem, but it can sometimes be upsetting for your child. Please remember that the Spanish adore children, and would never be intentionally unkind to them. The fact is though, that if your child is a poor eater, he or she will be encouraged to make an effort to eat larger amounts of more varied food.

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