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AIBU to be having severe palpitations?!

Ah yes, we must make it more exciting for the students

If I was running the toddler group I would've tokd Michaels mum that it was not ok to take chocolate fingers for him when the other kids were having fruit. If I was one of the other parents I would've been well pissed off.

I'm late watching this right now on iplayer, i keep welling up , these poor children. makes me sick. they will suffer from poor health, low IQ and die before their parents. the stupid mother had an actual heart attack!! she clearly doesnt give a hoot if the same happens to her kids, take them away until she learns to stop neglecting them, same goes for the others imo. it's neglect, simple.

thing i remember most about home ec is laughing at the teacher who kept going into the back room to get a 'drink of water' during the lesson and getting slowly drunk on what we were pretty sure was vodka, she was later fired for being drunk in school.

I think it is extremely neglectful as it is causing harm to the child's physical wellness.

But I felt for the parents of the child who had suffered from meningitis.

We had one of those too, biddysmama!

I just had to check your profile to see if I knew you irl (I don't!)

I'm 21 and learnt buggar all anout how to cook from school. I taught myself when I left home age 18 and am now quite a good cook who often cooks from scratch. You just need the motivation and the curiosity to learn how to do new stuff.

lol do you live in lancashire?

I can't judge michael's parents. They seem at their wits end and severely affected by having him nearly die. I struggled (still do at times) to get my kids to eat much of anything and it's very stressful - I can easily imagine latching onto to any food substance that they would have eaten happily just because some food would keep them alive. I'm just lucky that it wasn't junk they eventually went for.

The cardiff family - ouch! They have a beautiful home which leads me to think they must be at least relatively educated - how can they not know that giving their children 5 takeaways and unlimited snacks is dangerous!

I'm a mixture of angry and sad about the young mum on her own. More angry but trying not to be, she admitted she desperately needed help.

Someone said how are they not fat - I guess maybe they eat bad foods but not loads of them? Not sure how the cardiff mum is so skinny and beautiful though! Her children are grogeous looking too.

The runcorn mum is very overweight though - they're not all getting away with it!

home economics here consists of -

a salad sandwich
chicken curry - chicken to be cooked at home, mixed with curry powder and water. onion if you want too
fruit crumble - fruit to be cooked at home. DD brought hers home undercooked. she also forgot to put the sugar in it. teacher said it was fine
rock buns - DD told she had too much flour. yet i weighed it all out for her as per teachers recipe

the kids are not allowed to turn the oven on, or to check the food, or to lift the food out of the oven. that is for the teacher to do. the kids may get burnt

The fat on the inside is more important though. You could be outwardly thin but if you have fat surrounding your organs you'll be in trouble.

It has just been found that obesity isn't what causes the health problems, it is a bad diet, many doctors have always thought this but there was little scientific evidence.

Thin people who eat a bad diet suffer from the same ill health that overweight people can, it is the diet that matters, not the weight, so no doubt there will be policy changes.

There is the ability to send parents to cookery classes as part of a safeguarding (CP) plan, but the DC's have to be 'in the system' for it to happen, which it won't with MC/upper WC parents.

i remember making a cup of tea and some toast, a microwaved potato,tuna bake whch was tuna and a tin of mushroom soup with mash and ready salted crisps on the top... it was rank!

Obesity still causes many health problems though...strain on joints and organs to name just two.

Oh yes a Hot Drink and a Snack on Toast was lesson one. We could choose what to bring in to go on the toast - spaghetti hoops, beans or for the more advanced young cook, cheese

We did make other things that were OK. And did cheese tasting once, where I learnt I actually did like Brie after all. Lots of stuff about food groups, planning a weekly shop on a budget, how to wash up - good stuff really (and this was back in the early-mid 80s).

But in DC's the focus will shift to diet content, and in adults also, not just weight. It has always been whether someone is underweight or overweight. It has also just been announced that the rates of bowel cancer is rising, which again is the content of diet linked.

I thought that had always been the case...bad diet causes health problems?

I was one of the last years to do proper Home Economics. It was replaced by technology.

We had a strict scottish teacher but I can still remember a lot of her sayings now. I can remember nothing at all from technology.

We were taught basic but useful stuff like how to wash up (glass first greasy pans last), what terms like simmer meant, how to fold in flour, rub pastry mix.

We made savoury aswell as sweet foods.

If you don't know basic terms them you can't follow recipe confidently.

DH never did home ec and did not have that knowledge when I met him.

Brownies also covered useful info - I can remember having to make a cup of tea for a badge when I was 8 or so. Learning how to set a table properly.

My mum did cook from scratch daily and cook with me but I remember the school lessons/brownies clearly.

We did cheese on toast week 1 aswell - I can remember learning about why we pre heat the grill and washing the greasy grill pan. mid 80's.

All I really learnt was the best way to chop an onion...I still think of my teacher every time I chop one now and that was during the 80's Lol.

I learnt to cook from watching my Mum cook, yet I don't think I ever really watched her on purpose...so it'a amazing how many things you pick up without realising.

Having said that, when I moved out I was on the phone to my Mum asking this that and the other for the first few months...just like my son asks me now.

I think my first food technology practical was spaghetti bolognese actually! (mid 90s). I threw it away at the end of school because I was terrified I'd give everyone food posionous and my mum was furious because she hadn't prepared anything else for tea!