A mother-of-four has slammed her son’s primary school teacher after learning he was forbidden from drinking his ‘unhealthy’ chocolate milk during recess.
Constance Hall, a prolific Australian mummy blogger, claims a teacher ‘lunchbox shamed’ her and told her five-year-old son Arlo he had to wait until lunchtime to consume his dairy snack.
‘He said, ‘Oh I wish you didn’t get me the choc milk, the teachers don’t let me have it. They make me have it at lunchtime because they don’t think it’s healthy enough for recess’,’ Constance explained on her radio show The Queen Sesh.
Constance Hall, 33, (pictured with her four kids) claims she was ‘lunchbox shamed’ by her son’s teacher
The 33-year-old mummy blogger (pictured with her son Arlow) says her five-year-old was forbidden from drinking his chocolate milk at recess
‘So I said to the teacher, really? The options are that or juice and because he can’t have any bread or anything substantial I give him the milk to line his tummy a bit because he’s probably hungry.’
According to Constance, her frustration reached breaking point when she realised her son had been forced to wait until lunchtime to have his chocolate milk every day for three months.
The 33-year-old blogger, who lives with her fiance Denim Cooke, has four children of her own and step-parents her partner’s two sons.
Speaking about the ‘awkward’ nutritional lecture from her son’s teacher, Constance said she felt as if she had sent her child to school with the ‘worst breakfast ever’.
According to Constance, her frustration reached breaking point when she realised her son had been forced to wait until lunchtime to have his chocolate milk every day for three months
The mummy blogger fired back at the teacher on her radio show and said it was lucky she did not burst into tears at the humiliation
Speaking about the ‘awkward’ nutritional lecture from her son’s teacher, Constance said she felt as if she had sent her child to school with the ‘worst breakfast ever’ (stock image)
‘There are people like me who work full time and have six children that just sort of need things to go smoothly,’ she said on the air.
‘There’s other mothers who can’t even afford to do lunch orders and then for them to get shamed about what they’re giving their kid for recess, I just don’t like it. I don’t like the whole thing. It feels icky to me.’
As an often ‘frazzled’ mother, Constance says she might have reacted badly to the shaming if she was not a ‘confident’ woman.
She also warned other mothers with less time, money or freedom may not be able to handle the humiliation of being told how to appropriately feed their children.
As an often ‘frazzled’ mother, Constance says she might have reacted badly to the shaming if she was not a ‘confident’ woman
Constance also warned other mothers with less time, money or freedom may not be able to handle the humiliation of being told how to appropriately feed their children (pictured is her daughter)
‘When I was at my lowest and I couldn’t even afford to do lunch orders and I had twin babies, newborn babies, I was living on my own, and I couldn’t even get to the supermarket,’ Constance said.
‘Imagine if someone turned around and said to me, ‘Yeah your son’s not allowed to have choc milk at recess because it’s not healthy enough.’ I would have burst into tears and gone straight to my psychologist and hyperventilated the whole way there.’
But despite her anger, Constance admits she stopped herself from angrily emailing the school’s principal about the awkward ordeal, worrying it might have been ‘petty’.
‘Power to the people! Let them drink milk!’ the mother-turned-radio-host added.