Comments on: Would Someone Please Sit with My Kid at Lunch?

By: Jami A

Jami A — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:57:22 +0000

i was talking to my 4th grade daughter about this. She said “if she doesn’t mind eating with lower schoolers, she could visit in Colorado and I’d eat lunch with her at school.” Hope for the future!

By: sam

sam — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 04:07:59 +0000

yes!!!!! what DO we do???? I’ll be waiting for the answer . .I’ve hoped, begged, been the car pool and hid in the last row of the movies crossing my fingers for friendship. xx

By: sam

sam — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 04:04:58 +0000

It’s the sad sad truth. How DO we create opportunities for friendship, happily ever after, and just movie days . .I’ll be reading and watching for the answer . I’v waited, angsted, held my breath and been the car pool just hoping. xx

By: Sharon Landay

Sharon Landay — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 02:23:03 +0000

Just home from an IEP mtg. In her Jr year, lunch still not to our satisfaction. I will now be coordinating (typical) peer lunch buddies. Will be using an app to allow anonymous communication with volunteers from a school club called Peer Leadership. I’ve asked for this since freshman year. Really shouldn’t be this hard. I don’t want her to be anyone’s headline. I want her to sit with age peers and see what other 16 year olds are like.

By: Veronica

Veronica — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 00:21:07 +0000

Ohhh if only Sophie and Abby were at school together. My heart hurts reading this. These are my fears as well. Abby eats too slow and often the last kid in the cafeteria with no recess time remaining. Hope the school starts a volunteer lunch bunch group! The school’s social worker should help (if they have one).

By: Mary Anne Reed

Mary Anne Reed — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:56:03 +0000

I love your little daughter and I wish I could be there to eat with her. And I think you are a fantastic Mom. Not very helpful. But Junior High is the Pitts

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:21:31 +0000

I wish I’d had that problem when I was her age. On a regular basis, mostly because I was in trouble, I sat with a bully of a teachers aide. Good job keeping on top of the situation by trying to make sure she is included. As soon as the school year is over, you have an open invitation to come up to Washington state for a visit.

By: Jess Craig

Jess Craig — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:58:04 +0000

Amy, yet again, you have taken me on an emotional roller coaster that honestly I wish I could have avoided. Yet, as I sit here, trying not to cry in public… Again… I recognize that the truth. I can’t.

The journey Sophie and your family go through, shines a very harsh glaring light on ours, and some days I am weak. I don’t want to be strong, push through, alpha my way through life and smooth a path for my resplendent and sassy Princess Chloe because, it just hurts my damn soul sometimes. Just crushing.

thank you for sharing your thought and experiences in this way, it gives some of us a safe place were, even for a few minutes, we don’t always have to be strong.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:49:11 +0000

Oh, man. Keep us posted. Like you, I wouldn’t let her figure it out on her own. I know there are people who would say that’s the right thing to do. But I would have done what you are doing, which is reaching out to the school. Together you’ll all come up with something.

By: heather in AZ

heather in AZ — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:58:44 +0000

It is NOT easy to parent a jr high age child (or high school for that matter) , and with Sophie all the typical problems seem to be amplified- and then a few extra struggles thrown in. My heart hurts for Sophie and every other child that eats alone at school. I have a neighbor friend who is a 7th grader at Sophie’s school, I’ll ask her if she knows Sophie…and could keep an eye out for her.

If you ever figure out the magic balance between how much interference kids need vs when to let them solve things on their own- please share!