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Care and Feeding
The other day, my husband returned from bike riding excursion to the park with the Felix eager to tell me about a few overheard conversations. Bike riding park visits afford a lot of time to eavesdrop because what one spends one's time doing is watching Felix bike in laps around a park loop while pretending to be a subway train (or conductor-- which is unclear).
One of the things he overheard was an exchange about preschool applications. As I have mentioned here before, getting one's kid into preschool in New York City (and, I gather around the country) is one tricky gauntlet. At any rate, the overheard woman in question was saying that her biggest concern, preschool-wise, is that her child only be given organic snacks and this is something she inquires deeply about at every open house and interview.
Most schools have a sort of communal snack policy where each parent brings in snack for the class every day and I can tell you, as a snack-preparer, that when faced with a week of snacks I do not go nuts to come up with an organic menu. Just figuring out what to bring at all is overwheming to me, but as I've said before, I'm no kitchen sorcerer. I'm not even the kitchen's sorcerer's apprentice. A week of snack looms next month and I get a knot in my stomach every time I think about it. I have tried quizzing Felix about his favorite snacks but he is pretty cagy about sharing school details and seems to be pushing hard for an all-cupcake week... which violates all reason, I know.
One woman I know told me that she was terribly concerned about lazy parents bringing in junk like yogurt sticks and crackers for the children and asked me how I thought she could go about ensuring that the school wouldn't let this stuff in and I caved and said that she would probably be best off telling the school that her child had some food sensitivitites and that she would have to supply her kid's snack every days. It makes for a lot more work but I tend to think that if you have an all-organic-all-the-time fetish, you are responsible for making that happen.
And kids get away from you anyway. They will always want to eat the thing that is the least organic most bizarre looking-- the cookie with the blue icing. The Hello Kitty candy bracelet. Ultra orange cupcakes that stain previously unstainable Halloween costumes.
So imagine my relief to see that I am not alone in thinking that a lot of the organic insisters need to relax. Laura Bennett writes for the Daily Beast about her encounters with organic overload.
posted by Elise at 9:30 AM
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