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

[brt100]

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 finding some of what people are saying is quite offensive.

When I discovered I had a child with dental problems, I was not only accused of poor diet/poor dental hygiene by others, but I also felt really guilty.

I spent ages researching what I could do.And, yes, like someone else said, crisps are bad, raisins terrible, juice awful......It's really important when the teeth are and aren't cleaned.....supposedly a small piece of cheese after a meal is good to limit the damage....etc etc.

I was told that the problem was most likely to have been caused in the womb, and it was nothing to do with anything anyone had done or not done.
But as a result the tooth enamel is not providing the protection it should.

Those if you who are scoffing need to just bloody well think about it and do your research.

Wrong, too ... You can be born with damaged enamel - happens in the womb, apparently.

My parents were evangelically anti-sugar, my brother and sister have great teeth and mine are full of holes! All down to fault lines in the enamel when it was forming, according to my dentist.

I have non identical twins. One with perfectly white teeth and one who's enamel is not white ( has a yellow tinge) and she has 1 filling. They are 7 years old and I can assure you they have had the same diet and regular 6 month dental check ups as well as brushing 3 times a day. I questioned the dentist on the difference and she said that tooth enamel is determined in the womb and can sadly be damaged. Nothing I can do about it apart from continuing as I am (dental hygiene wise) and hope for the best.

My DD is another child who was born with poor enamel affecting some of the baby teeth.

I have been told by different people (dentists, dental technicians, and the dental hospital consultant too) that it is caused before the baby is born, whilst still in the womb and often in early pregnancy too. It is likely that my sickness during pregnancy is likely to have been the cause.

Luckily DD's adult teeth appear to be coming through unaffected and, although very crossed over and not quite in the right places, all seem healthy.

Re, sweets on birthdays at school. I have no issue whatsoever with this.

It is ONE sweet or small chocolate normally.
It is handed out at home time with the instructions to check with parents first.
Even if every child does it it is still only 30 small sweets a year.

Lol at all the people being offensive and spouting insults, must have issues.

DS1 is 7 and recently had 2 fillings. He has poor enamel, the dentist said it can be caused by having antibiotics during pregnancy and I had several UTI's and a couple of kidney infections. So they might have caused it.

Why 'Lol' brt100? Is this what you had in mind when you started the thread?

Lol because of irony. Rather than reply about the threat posters are going to the hassel of searching my prev posts only to just turn round, thrown a insult at me and tell me to get a life or post no one cares.

Then again 80% of people here see regular sweets as something vital for a good childhood. No wonder children have never been so fat.

These vital treats add up and up.

I don't expect everyone to agree with me, I do expect a very basic level of manors and this is beyond many here.

Well as long as you are enjoying yourself brt100.

It's life style that's the problem not the sweets.

Perhaps if parents didn't drive the 50 yards to the school gates a packet of sweets wouldn't worry you so much.

I fail to see how walking more would improve my childs tooth enamel Giles

I was replying to brt claiming that these sweets were behind the kids being so fat.

Walking more would help that. Except you couldn't blame other parents or schools for that could you.

I think that was in response to the OP's 'fat children' comment TBW, we seem to have moved on from teeth to something else.

Giles its not about a packet of sweets. Its about all the junk here and there that adds up.

i belive you can get mouth gards to protect agaisnt enamel erosion, maybe these would help on days of sweets

ERM junk food and weight are related.

This thread is actually about a packet of sweets isn't it?

and who's responsible for a child's junk food intake? The parents.

A pack of six haribo once a week/fortnight at a school is going to be a negligible contributor.

And in all honesty of your worrying about the sweets then your worrying about the wrong thing. Stop feeding the kid crap and the sweets won't matter!!

Look, the long and short of it is that many schools now have adopted healthier school dinners and a no crisps, sweets or chocolates policy in packed lunches.Many are nut free.Many only serve kosher food.Etc etc....

Children manage to get by.

The question some are asking is, since its only a few sweets every so often, 'does it matter?'

But if it's your child being sedated for extractions, you tend to ask more, 'is it worth it?'

Its not joyless to suggest that children aren't excluded unecessarily, and I thought as schools and parents we would like to work towards this.

Here's to the overweight kids,and kids with bad teeth

Then leave something your child can eat that the teacher can put in a drawer.

Some kids won't ever get a party thanks to the expense or the fact they move around a lot and never et particularly close to other children.

So, sure why not let them bring in a few sweets that the parents can keep hold of and ration accordingly

30 sweets a year won't give you overweight kids with bad teeth.
A lack of exercise, poor general diet, poor dental hygiene and perhaps a predispoal to weak tooth enamel will. Bar one, all of which are down to the way people chose to raise their children, not the occasional sweet.