to be shocked at pre-school handing out sweets?

[RidgewayLass]

DD did not know what "sweets" meant until she started pre-school. Since then she has been offered 1 or 2 fun-size Milky Ways twice, both times just before lunch ffs, and yesterday it was lollipops and chews. It looked like all the other children were having sweets, and there was no alternative treat for children who are not allowed sweets. At home we do have sweet biscuits, cakes, puddings, icecream, but we are very wary how much pure glucose or sugar DD gets in one go.

I told her the lollipop and the chew were very bad for her teeth, and she asked "well if they are so bad for my teeth, why did my teachers give them to me?" Why did they? I thought the schools were supposed to do healthy eating - where does this fit in?

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

[weblette]

Hope that's a healthy one kreecher...

Do have another OP

[lollipopshoes]

is she your first?

[purepurple]

Well, I think YABU. Maybe the treats are for children's birthdays?
If you don't want your child to have, then tell the pre-school staff not to give your child any.

[faverolles]

"well if they are so bad for my teeth, why did my teachers give them to me?"
How old is your dd?
None of my dc's would have come out with a comment like this until they were much older.
Is she gifted and talented?

[JamieLeeCurtis]

Surprising. I'm assuming there was some sort of special occasion? Diwali maybe?

Sweets before lunch would be better for the teeth than between lunch, though

[Sparklyoldwhizzbangcatpusswhee]

I think you need to get a grip!

[omnishambles]

Maybe you should just keep her at home. Forever.

[JamieLeeCurtis]

.. between lunch should read between meals ..
Sweets are not the spawn of the devil

[mollythetortoise]

possibly another child's birthday so they all get a sweet (the parent usually sends them in - I do).

Sometimes it can seem they get sweets a lot but just a lot of birthdays that week.

at that age, you could take one or two sweets away (I use to eat them myself ) and let them just eat one

[StrikeUpTheBand]

I'd be annoyed. I don't understand the biscuit comments. You are not crazy to not want your preschooler to have sweets. I don't think lollipops and chews should be having a regular place in a young child's diet. I wonder if the previous posters would be the same if the OP had said their preschool had offered cola with lunch?!

[jonicomelately]

Remove her immediately from such a toxic environment.

[JamieLeeCurtis]

yy Birthdays are quite common this month - all that shagging in the Winter

[dementedma]

yawn get over it, she'll live.

[tvaerialmagpiebin]

It might have been another child's birthday.

I will say this kindly but..... she will encounter sweets and chocolate. If you seek to restrict things she will just binge on them when she is older. At her age you can carefully monitor what she eats, the odd mini milky way is not going to hurt her. As long as she is cleaning her teeth properly and is not chugging back haribos every day, then I think you need to relax a bit.

It is annoying when they get them before lunch but you can take it and say she can have it after lunch.

[PandaG]

I expect they have been brought in by parents as it is their child's birthday. Where I work, we keep them until the end of the session, and ask the parents if the child may have one, handing the sweet to the parent to decide when the child gets to eat it. We do not buy sweets to give ot the children from the setting, but may bake cakes or biscuuits with them sometimes, again these are handed out at the end of the session to the parents.

[2shoes]

[purepurple]

We gave out sweets on Friday ( I work in a nursery) because we had a Halloween dress up party day.
We also had a dental talk by a local dentist in September.
Some of our parents are doctors and dentists, who let their children eat sweets ( says a lot, I think)
It's all about balance.

[lollipopshoes]

SUTB - in principle I have no problems with my children having the odd sweet or even the odd glass of coke.

Coke, however, sends dd2 completely loopy so I have told school that if it is ever on offer she is not to be given any.

If you don't want your children to EVER have sweets, you have to tell people, you can't just expect them to realise

[wonderstuff]

I think you are easily shocked - all things in moderation.

[domeafavour]

It's a couple of sweets fgs.
Life is too short, get on with it

[Chil1234]

"DD did not know what "sweets" meant until she started pre-school. "

See it as adding to her vocabulary, perhaps?

[Doigthebountyeater]

I never got sweets/processed food/puddings/biscuits/ crisps/ takeaways until I left home. I am now a size 16 (was nearly a 20 at one point). Moderation in all things!

Oh and have a !

[StrikeUpTheBand]

Lollipop, my DS is hyper/horrendous when he has artificial colours. He is very good usually and asks the nursery to check if they are having anything, and they are supposed to be aware...but then on Friday they were doing some party game with flour and sweets and he apparently refused because they were bright coloured sweets. They told me about this and it turns out that even when he brought it up, and despite my warnings, noone had thought to check! It's not life threatening but it certainly isn't nice for him when he has these E-numbers so good job he didn't have them really.

I don't object to the odd one, but really, at that age they shouldn't be just giving them out before lunchtime should they?

[lollipopshoes]

SUTB - that's really grown up of him, am tres impressed