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?

We ate huge amounts of sugar and rubbish as '70s kids, and people weren't

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And lack of dental surgeries with places in some parts.

People just weren't as overweight in the 70s as they are now. More cars, more home-based entertainment (dvds, computer games etc), larger portion sizes, more fast food/coffee bars with high calorie coffee drinks, fewer sports clubs around that you can join (apart from expensive gyms), more working mums (too exhausted to play squash after a week in the office), more single parent households (want to go for a jog - who watches the kids?)...

Oh my I've really heard it all!

I used to work with someone who was in fact the perfect parent! Unfortunately when her children arrived quite a different scenario!

These minor issues which make you livid now will disappear. Failing that just explain to your child why they cannot accept birthday sweets, problem solved.

If food is forbidden, then kids will go and sneak the 'naughty' stuff when they are old enough.

DS isn't realy 'in to' the sweet stuff. We still have christmas and easter sweets at home unopened, in his room (so its not locked away).

Yes, some people have terrible problems with tooth enamel but fruit sugars are really dreadful for that (among other things).

A healthy attitude to sweets as part of lifestyle is a good lesson for kids.

when it was dc's birthday I used to send in 30 gimmicky pencils each with a balloon wrapped around it.

Children will do what they do when they're old enough.
Until then, we as parents, make the right choices for them in many many areas.

I just don't believe that a child whose sweet intake is limited will, because of that, turn into a sugar fiend.
They may, they may not, depending on who they are as an individual.

My mum always limited my food choices as a child (yes, way back in the 70's).

I'm very grateful for it, and I want to extend the same chance to my children.

Frankly OP, if you're getting this stoked up about the possibility that someone might offer your as-yet-unborn offspring a mini mars bar at some distant point in the future then you're the one with issues!

I haven't read the whole thread and you all obviously think the OP has some issues ..... However, when my kids were at primary it infuriated me when they came out at the end of the day clutching some crappy sweets or with a sugary lolly shoved up against their back teeth (especially the one whose teeth didn't have properly formed enamel and needed extractions aged 4).

In fact (nothing to do with me) the school banned the handing out of sweets on birthdays and suggested, if parents wanted to do something, they buy a book the whole class could enjoy. Believe it or not, quite a few parents (including me) thought that was a good idea.

I just think it should be up to the parents to decide to vote-out of schools parents who are total killjoys. They make me livid. The schools should ban them.

Haha I bet the children didn't think it was a good idea stonecircle!

Yeah I'd rather they banned it. Unnecessary sugar consumption. There is an obesity epidemic out there.... And I guess from this thread some parents are not taking it particularly seriously.

Of course we are taking it seriously. But you can't blame a tiny packet of sweets or a lolly given out once every few days when parents are driving their kids less than half a mile to school instead if walking, and letting them eat stodge at school or falling for the meaningless logos on processed shit they buy their kids to feed at home.

Focus on the real problems behind it!

Perhaps of they did instead of getting frothy over a fun size bag of haribo then there wouldn't be the epidemic. But people seen to want to just blame everyone else

Giles will you ever understand its not just about a single bag of sweets?

In our school its krispy kreme donuts. I think they are seriously tasteless and yukky. The kids seem to like them.

When I was little I used to have a bar of McCowans toffee for my play piece, or crisps. Our teachers gave us mars bars for good work. The Head had a jar of toffees in his room and he would give them to good kids. I remember getting jelly tots from the school nurse after a jab. Mum used to have a bake-fest on a friday and the kitchen table would be groaning when we got home from school... I remember all these so clearly - obviously the sweet treats made me deleriously happy as a small child (still do).

I was as skinny as a rake until I hit mid my 40s (still a size 10) and have all my own teeth in reasonable condition. My friend, raised without sweets has been overweight since childhood and had to have her teeth porcelaned as the enamel just ate away at itself.

No, you can't blame a pack of haribos every few weeks for overweight/toothless children. I know that I have bigger things to worry about than a few sugary treats.

Then what's it about? Cos if you think six gunmy bears even once a week is worth worrying about then your worrying about the wrong thing.

It's like moaning about being short changed in waitrose when you dropped a £20 in the at park.

Oh and if you struggle to say no to your child and not make them wait til you want them to have them then again that's not birthday child's mum's problem.

And if you want to bin them bin them

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It would annoy me too, OP. And yes, I think schools should ban it. It always astonishes me how complacent people are about this kind of thing - it's not the sole cause of the obesity crisis, but it contributes to it.

I take it very seriously. But one packet of sweets every one and then will not make any difference if they have a balanced diet and exercise.

I'd like to point out in the past, way back when, sugar and Palm oil were not routinely added to staple food products, like bread. They are now. A massive processed food industry makes billions from human appetite for sugar- because it's addictive. So now, with the many many opportunities for empty sugar calories to get into the diet on the sly, I'd rather my kids weren't exposed to more. Hth.

I have typed and deleted about 5 more replies to all this, but i think I am going for hiding the thread instead. Hope you manage to convince everyone brt100.