Right I'm the op and I'm popping back to say sorry to the post who PMed me, I bit your head off mainly because I was fed up of others and it was out of order what I said.
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Also rice, thank you for trying to be a voice of reason. Not for agreeing, just for actually reading like a few others bothered.
In the wild scenario that anyone reads this, here's a brief summary.
I have lovely kids, who get a healthy diet and are not treat obsessed. Like the others did my youngest is having a bit of stroppy phase, she's a bit obsessed with wind the bobbin up, ice-cream and kissing. The others are quite understanding about not using the van at all, they are old enough to wait until home for something else or just go without. They see the stress giving the youngest ice cream end up with tantrums that spoil the park, I call billions on you if you claim your kids never had a tantrum phase and sometimes you took the lazy option to avoid one. Like supermarket shopping alone.
For the record I like ice-cream, the occasional one from vans etc. We re all a healthy weight too. I just hate it being parked right by the play park fence.
Genuine question, if it's not focused on children a others suggest why is it there? Not say by the main gate, the busiest path or just central? Why is each purpose built pitch alongside the play park fence even if the park is huge or has busier areas? To me it's clear it's going for pester power.
And also if everyone is so good, apart from me, at saying no why are so many of my children's classmates either overweight or having multiple rotten teeth removed at only three or four under a general Clearly families are vulnerable to this problem here, way above national levels, so why use council land for pester power? There's lots of public land for vans, but his isn't, you. need council permission to park here. I was annoyed for example about lunchbox rules at school, until on a trip I saw one child with a whole cake and nothing else, another with a packet of cookies and plain bread. The teacher said this was common, hence the school having rules and a free breakfast club.
I get the impression most the posters here are from another world judging from talk of miso soup, falafel and smoothes. None of which I think I've ever had! Well an alcoholic smoothes actually.
It's all bit daily mail, I never had x so it's fine or its my right to do anything. I don't give a shot about 1960, I wasn't there but I guess lots was different