to think that thanking your own organic juice to give to your child at a party because you disapprove of the squash provided by the hosts us just rude?

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Obviously I don't think I'm being unreasonable and would really just like you all to join me in my disgruntled ire. But go on, give it a shot at putting the other side of the story. No behavioural issues involved, if anyone was wondering whether that might be a possible tactic.

Oh bugger. Bringing, and is.

I don't see an issue with not wanting your child to drink the squash, but if it were me I'd be asking for a drink of water instead of bringing my own organic juice. Rightly or wrongly it smacks of "your juice isn't good enough for my dc"

I don't really think it's rude. Unless it's done in a sniffy judgemental way I suppose.

Maybe depends on how it's done?

Is it a PFB?

Pfbtastic.

My ds went through a stage where he'd drink Tesco Hi Juice Blackcurrant and would literally go for days if we didn't have it. So we used to go everywhere with bottles of stuff, oh yes we offended people and got strange looks and comments.

But didn't care, ds would drink.

Now he will drink apple juice, water and milk - so we have a wide range of drinks!!!

I would be massively hacked off if someone did that. YANBU.

ok, I haven't done this at a party, but I don't let my kids drink stuff with aspartame in. It's a common sweetener in "sugar free" squashes aimed at kids. So I have stopped my kids having squash at, for example, church.

I don't bring my own though: they can cope with water.

I think you should just agree with me and ask for water instead

I used to have to do that as my dd didn't like squash! (she'd only ever had milk or water as she took a long time to drink from anything other than a bottle so she'd never tasted squash-at 14 she still prefers water-result! lol)

So was your squash the "no added sugar" type?

I would only really drink juice as a child but I don't imagine my mum would have sent me to parties with juice.

Would you have been annoyed if the child had wanted water?

There have been organic statements made in the past. There is form.

No, of course water wouldn't have been a problem.

Why does it matter? I think YABU. Let the mum give her child whatever juice she wants....it's no skin off your nose. It would be unreasonable of her to demand you provide a certain type of juice, but if she's just chucking a carton at her DC as part of the food/drink, I don't see an issue.

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durrr I've just realised that you're not the organic juice bringer!

Doesn't change my stance though, water could have been asked for

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Some parents despise squash, I'm one of them. Some parents are obsessed with controlling everything that goes into their child, I wasn't one of them.
I have relatives that are control freaks about their offspring, I let them get on with it.

I would find it odd, i wouldnt really care but i would probably think of the parents as a bit precious from then on. My daughter used to have a friend who was only allowed water or milk at our house (no fruit juices etc) and yet everytime she came she would ask for orange or apple or whatever the other kids had, i used to wonder if she drank them at home and the special rules only applied to other peoples houses and the mum was just trying to make me look mean!

Yeah, that would piss me off, but I don't think it's rude per se. If you don't want your dc drinking squash, then water is the next option.

I would feel very sorry for any kid who goes to a party and is made to drink water because their paranoid parent wouldnt let them have squash. (any medical reasons an exception).

Taking your own organic stuff just smacks of snobby twattishness.

I would not think it rude.

I'd find it funny, and would not be offended, just amused.

How did they know that there would only be squash there?

FWIW I hate squash and won't give it to DD. And if we were at a party, and everyone else was drinking squash, and I told her water only, there would be a meltdown. And the only way around that would be to bring juice, I suppose.

But we have major battles over acceptable drinks in our house, it's like the never-ending parenting battle to get her to drink water ever, so probably if she wasn't like that I'd just shrug and give her the juice. But maybe PFB parents are thinking if they allow squash at a party they'll face battles at every single drink from now on? Because that IS what happens around here, as proved by my husband giving DD 'a special drink' involving squash ONCE.

Of course it's rude...very misjudged as well - could make the kid a figure of fun.