One of the reasons I didn't let my son go back for a second year of preschool was that in the first year they'd managed to destroy his diet. He was hard to get to eat to begin with, but I just didn't have junk in my house. So he already loved things like fruit, cheese and eggs, but wasn't big on meat and vegetables. By the end of the year, he wouldn't even eat fruit or cheese. Forget eggs or any type of meat. He would eat peanut butter sandwiches and just hold out as long as he could before someone would give him a treat.

Basically they did two things at school. They had snack time which I sent his snacks but they served cookies and cereal as everyone else's snack. In the beginning this wasn't a problem. He liked his snacks. But what started problems was that sometimes as a reward they brought out Skittles and my children weren't allowed to have them.

You can imagine what happens when a teacher pulls out a bag of Skittles in a room full of three/four year olds and gives them to all the kids except one child for preforming a task that he/she is still expected to do without getting the reward.

So I don't even know they are doing this for a couple months until a parent/teacher meeting where they are wanting to find solutions for him crying every time that happens . . . obviously, since them not bringing candy out wasn't an option, the only solution was to let him have the candy, too. Well, it was only a matter of time before hard boiled eggs, fruit, and cheese wasn't going to compare to Cinnamon Toast Church and Oreos as well.

On top of that the reason he was in the preschool to begin with was that he had a speech delay and trouble regulating his emotions. Basically, more so than what is normal for a four year old, if something little doesn't go his way he was in emotional turmoil. Not I'm upset and throwing a fit to get my way, but actual wet faced tears of this is actually hurting him. After holding him and calming him down, he can go on his way like normal; it's just that these were situations that don't require it.

Putting him through actual unfair situations when we were already having trouble getting him to cope with just the everyday normal fair situations, wasn't helping.