to be horrified by the obliviousness of some parents?

[PinkCanary]

I overheard a conversation between a well presented reception parent and school bursar today.

Basically it was about whether a their child was subcribing to the milk scheme or not as said child kept changing mind in class.

Parent commented that since staring school child had been asking to drink "water" at home and "was water safe to drink?"

FFS!?!?

I daren't think what this child has actually been drinking for the first four years of their life considering their 'faddiness' over milk.

Next time you come across some government literature that seems overly patronising remember that there are still far too many families out there that really have no clue whatsoever!

Maybe they'd just moved from somewhere where the tap water wasn't safe to drink?

that was my first thought seenyer

When exH first moved to the UK with me (well presented man, perfect English) he was unusre about drinking the tap water.

Maybe the parents were of the type that believe that only bottled water is safe?

Or maybe she was just fucking weird

[p.s. I can't eat apples off the tree, it's weird. I have to eat them from a bag or a farm shop. Sad/stupid. ]

I didnt want to bring my area into it but...

No. Sorry. Burnley born and bred. The mother seriously did not realise that water was a suitable drink for a human.

Another good one I heard a couple of years ago was that formula was best because child tax pays you extra each month till they turn one to cover the cost of it.

I was once in a training session delivered by a social worker and they freely admitted that intervention here was done on a much looser scale than in more affluent areas of the countries because they simply just wouldn't have the manpower to deal with such a high proportion of the local population.

The mother seriously did not realise that water was a suitable drink for a human

Well, that's shut me up then . I really don't know what else I can say. Do you think that she knows we need oxygen to breathe?

so you "over heard" a conversation with someone else - but yet you know that she's Burnley born and bred??

Didn't quite realize the effect putting it in bold would have up there - looks like I'm stunned with disbelief rather than mildly puzzled.

From OP's thread, it looks as if the mother was asking if the water at home were fit to drink - or have I misread it?

Yes, she meant water at home. Which would suggest child is more used to a constant stream of carbonated drinks. (I once saw a 6 month old baby being bottle fed coke!)

And yes I can safely assume Burnley born because of the unmistakable accent. I'm not from Burnley so can hear it pretty well.

I know that if I don't like it I should move but honestly where else could i have picked up a 4 story Victorian Villa for less than a hundred grand.

I spend my life trying to re-educate parents like these and its just a losing battle. But if nobody intervines then its just an ever repeating pattern.

seenyertoeslately re oxygen. Probably not. We rank the worst place in the country for GCSE results.

My sil is educated and is a teacher.
She was stunned that my dc's will drink water - she actually asked "why do you think ribena was invented? It's so much better for them that just water"

I don't think she was doubting that water was safe, just felt i was denying my dc vital vitamins and minerals

DD would probably have had the same reaction. The first time I got her a drink out of a tap she refused it. Having lived, up to that point, in countries where tap water wasn't safe she'd grown used to having it from a dispenser.
A lot of people don't give their DC plain water to drink. I know at DD's current school, they are allowed juice/squash at lunch and breaks but any fluid in class has to be water. One mother told me her son wouldn't drink it so she sent in pomegranite squash as it was all he would tolerate.