Originally Posted by Old Dad
Kids can't eat if others are talking?


At a guess, kids can't eat if they are using their mouth for talking. And hypoglycemia can get ugly with some.

Chronic issue with my oldest. In elementary school he has 20 minutes for lunch (including walking to and from the lunchroom) and his food regularly comes back home untouched. I kind of wish he had a 5 minutes supervised silence rule. Although to be fair in preschool he had 40 minutes sitting down time for lunch and even with frequent reminders from teachers to stop talking and start eating he still didn't eat much.