to wish children at school didn't bring sweets in for the whole class on the birthday

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Dn seams to always be coming home with sweets, I just think it should be up to the parents to decide on these things, I would be livid. Should the school ban this?

I'm pleased I'm fun 'Aunty DurhamDurham' to my nieces and nephew. I leave it to their parents to worry about their nutrition and concentrate on making sure we have fun together. Luckily my brother and sister have afforded the same principles to my two girls.

Honestly in the grand scheme of things a bag of sweets once a week or so will not make any difference at all to a child's health.
As I said earlier my two are in their late teens now and have all their own teeth, perfect weight and no issues with food.

Plus the question of what will happen if you acquire a child who is an individual rather than a clone, and who doesn't follow the path of righteousness as you want them to.
Will you adapt or not?

When we were TTC it wasn't top of the list of things to forward plan about admittedly.
But once they start in YR there are far more pressing things to be concerned about IIRC.

If you are talking to me, I wasn't quoting what you said. I was suggesting a sentence that would be a solution to this problem that is making you livid. If followed on from the first sentence where I said that it really wouldn't take a lot of planning. I was saying that that simple sentence is all you would need to say. Quotation marks are more often single '. Double " are more often speech marks. I was suggesting a possible sentence you could use to solve this dilemma you are thinking you may have if you ever have a child and which is making you unnecessarily cross in anticipation of it.

And yeah, nobody is perfect and it is important to understand that the reality of being a parent is soooooo far removed from the theory. Much of the stuff you think would be so important turns out to be crap and much stuff that never even crossed your mind ends up being vital. It's just a good thing to bear in mind.

the artisan bread makes me laugh, tiger and cheese are the flavours de jour.

Imagine some kid with 4 tiger loafs stuck in his shcool bag

broken car?

"I would be livid"

So not actually something you've experienced first-hand as a parent then. Just you telling parents what they ought to be feeling.

I'm going to assume that the OP doesn't have children and will in time realise just how unreasonable she is sounding and sit on my hands whilst resisting the urge to pat her on the head and tell her yes dear.

May all the things that make you "livid" always be this insignificant.

I am not fat as a result. I don't binge on sweet stuff. I don't shove jam tarts down my throat and make myself vomit, or anything else. I've never smoked, or taken drugs

Neither have I/do I. I just had a healthy, balanced diet and could relax about the odd packet of sweets. I have very fond memories of spending pocket money on things I wouldn't touch now-gob stoppers, blackjacks, sherbet fountains-all part of childhood.

I know a family who have raised their children not to crave junk food or sugar. They are happy and they eat a very varied and delicious diet. The two grown up kids are both excellent cooks themselves. The parents would have had a few healthy treats (such as lollies sweetened with rice syrup) to substitute for any sweets the kids acquired at school.

I really can't see the point of this. You have to live in the real world and relax a bit. I don't eat cake but if my mother's 80yr old neighbour has made a cake because I am visiting of course I have a piece! I go to dinner with people and don't take along my own pudding sweetened with rice syrup! I bet that mother gave people a laugh-and who knows what the children ate when out of sight?

Not custom? I remember taking sweets in and I'm about to hit 40.

Ps

Love Spongebob is generally right.

Amazing how coffeetea changes 'I might not want my child to eat too many sweets at school' to 'you have issues with food and want to control what people eat'. Honestly, get a life.

But seriously, sweets never hurt anyone , provided their diets at home aren't laden with crap and you encourage then to brush their teeth.

What kind of world would it be if you couldn't give everyone a sweet on your birthday or have a sweet.

Chill out.

I'm wondering if the Op is Willy Wonker's Dad?

They come out with one sweet a few times a term

Oh.my.god.

I think I might have to home school

They're banned at our school, because enough joyless buggers like the op whinged complained. The kids still stand at the gate and give them out

If some of you had dc's with problem teeth and you've seen them go through extractions and fillings every time they go to the dentist, you might not feel the same when you see them gnawing on another drumstick lolly or similar chewy or boiled sweet as they leave school.

Maybe you need to eat some "evil" sweets, chill out and stop worrying about what size everyone is.

What kind of world would it be if you couldn't give everyone a sweet on your birthday or have a sweet

Certainly a joyless one. I have always taken a cake into work on my birthday-people generally do-even now when I am volunteering. Someone had carrot cake last week-home made and lovely!

Anyone else want to know what op has planned dr party bags?

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