There are so many millions of children who not only eat lunch at school but, even when I was in elementary school (I'm 28 now) we had a breakfast program where lower - income kids would eat
breakfast at school too.
Not exact matches
«Kids don't eat
breakfast for many reasons: they don't like to eat when they first wake up, they don't have time in the mornings, their bus arrives
too late to visit the cafeteria, and those that qualify for free and reduced price meals don't partake because of the stigma associated with eating
breakfast at school.
But, unfortunately, barriers — like when and how
school breakfast is served or stigma around needing it
at all — are keeping
too many kids from accessing it.
But numerous obstacles can prevent children from eating
school meals: many students arrive
at school too late to eat
breakfast in the cafeteria, before the
school day begins.; children may feel a stigma that
school meals are just for «poor kids»; children may need to pay a co-payment for
breakfast and lunch that their families can not afford.
The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice
at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better
school attendance in
breakfast eaters than in non-
breakfast eaters
too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be
school, work, play or relationships, we need
breakfast to be
at the top of our mental game.
And more than 13 million students eat free
breakfasts at school,
too.
Eating
breakfast at school has health benefits
too.
I know that things may change as my kids get older and get jobs, are involved in more extra curricular programs
at school, and other teenager - y things but for now we are lucky to eat
breakfast and dinner together as a family every day (lunches
too in the summer).