Not Eating

Well, Gavin has not been eating his lunch at school this week. Since he brings his trash home in his lunchbox I can see what he ate. Usually it irritates the heck out of that he brings the trash home, but this week I was glad he did. He only took one or two bites out of his sandwhich and barely touched the snacks I packed for him. Every day I would say, "Gavin, why didn't you eat your lunch?" And he would shrug his shoulders and give the standard " I Dont Know." response.

Yesterday was the 4th day in a row that it happened. I knew that I had to get to the bottom of this because I had images of my poor kid starving by the afternoon at school. Our conversation went like this:

Me: Why didnt you eat your lunch again?
Gavin: I dont know
Me: Gavin, you have to tell me. Why arent you eating?
Gavin: I am too busy talking to my friends to eat. Lunch is the only time I can talk to them and I have ALOT to say!!

So, after I got done laughing-- because he was so totally serious in his response-- I let him know that he HAS to eat his lunch. I told him all about how eating a good lunch makes you better in school, helps you pay attention to the teacher, and helps you learn things.

Gavin's response? He laughed and said " Oh mommy, I already know everything. I dont need to learn anything else this year, I learned it all."

Oh really? And I just cant help laughing when he says stuff like that.

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