Received: from imo-r13.mx.aol.com (imo-r13.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.67]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6BMq0v22923 for <nifl-family@nifl.gov>; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:52:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from BRmidwest@aol.com by imo-r13.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.12.) id p.67.6a8d5a5 (3859) for <nifl-family@nifl.gov>; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:51:50 -0400 (EDT) From: BRmidwest@aol.com Message-ID: <67.6a8d5a5.269cff05@aol.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:51:49 EDT Subject: Re: [NIFL-FAMILY:3031] To eat or not to eat To: nifl-family@nifl.gov Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 109 Status: O Content-Length: 1458 Lines: 30 <<Now I am interested in starting a family literacy program with after-school care (3:30-6:15) children. But my problem lies in getting the parents involved since they are at work during the time we would have access to the children. We could possibly keep the children an additional 1 1/2 hours until the parents arrive at school. However, how do you entice these parents to stay at school after a long day at work and during a time that is their normal dinner hour. I have considered serving lots of food, but are there alternatives?>> If the question is indeed as stated: whether there are alternatives to serving food during "dinner-hour" activities, I would say the answer is no. *If* the event goes over the normal dinner hour, I think there is no *alternative* : there MUST be food. I realize I'm stating the obvious, but... when people (all people, any people) are hungry (even temporarily), food usually becomes our first priority. Furthermore, hungry (and tired) people are usually grouchy people; sated people are more likely to enjoy an activity (and to come to it in the first place). Of course, there may be alternatives to the *time* you offer your activities (and perhaps that was in fact the question in the first place!) ...but since it is just about the dinner hour as I post this, I can't think about anything but the food question: proving my point. Betsy Rubin Blue Gargoyle Family Learning Project Chicago
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