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?

Parents do get to control these things. Children are given sweets to take home right at the end of the day so that parents can decide whether to allow them or not. It's not like children are given a full sized bar of dairy milk to chow down on during assembly. Were talking about a tiny bag of haribos or a fun sized mars bar.

If parents are feeding their children properly with a range of healthy foods in appropriate amounts it's not going to do any harm even if all thirty birthdays over the year happen on school days and all thirty parents decide to send sweets in.

The overweight health professionals telling patients to lose welight piss me off, I know it shouldny we are all human but at my 8wks post natal check the Dr was really scathing about my weight. I nneeded to lose ten pounds and I have aalways gained less than two stone in Oregon and I have 10lb babies! And I always lose the weight easily (luck!) but the Dr criticising my weight was a good couple of stone overweight! At least I had the excuse of just having had a baby! And I k ow sje was just doing her job, but seriously fuck off.

In pregnancy...

The point is at dn school stuff like a dark chocolate button and a dried fig is banned for lunch but yet bags of haribo that are void of anything good are allowed.

IMO if junk food is the only thing that makes children excited as a gift then they need their horizons broadened.

Then that's down to the school. I'd agree it was ridiculous. Plenty of lunch box police threads to back you up on that!!

Just saying energies are better focused on the state of the food actually served not the sweets

Stupid lunch box rules are a seperate issue.

Treats to take home for a bday are fine.

I don't like this "custom" either. It's not "fun", "social" nor is it an "essential part of childhood".
I don't want my child to be given sugary full of E numbers shit to eat, especially by another child.
MN users have an odd idea of what an ideal childhood should consist of...

oh dear god
try briadening your own horizons first.
sweets are not the only thing kids get excited by but they are one small fun part of their life.
why on earth are you so stressed by what your dn eats ? quite frankly its none if your business.

Then the problem you have is with the schools packed lunch policy, not the parents who send in birthday sweets.

broadening ffs
bloody teeny keypad.

I don't like this "custom" either. It's not "fun", "social" nor is it an "essential part of childhood".
I don't want my child to be given sugary full of E numbers shit to eat, especially by another child.
MN users have an odd idea of what an ideal childhood should consist of...

This exactly! Thank you for saying it so well.

DS enjoys having sweets and chocolates occasionally,

He also eats a very good, varied diet the vast majority of the time.

Balance is the key

I bake 25 cupcakes on dds birthday, each child gets a homemade cake. Is that better op?

sirzy that was two seperate sentences. I clearly did not say I am educating him by not letting him eat any.

I am simply pointing out what food and drink has sugar in and therefore if he has already had a sugary food item then eating another one would be too much for that day.

I agree with whoever said about schools re dinners. My DS always seems to have wedges and beans with something...often pizza. Followed by iced biscuits and cakes with custard.

This is why he is packed lunch most days.

Neither my mother's generation nor my generation gave out sweets (or birthday cakes) to the class.
Both of us seem to have survived this unscathed....

Flippin heck...just wondering how my two teens managed to get through primary school with all their teeth intact, slim figures and a healthy attitude to food when I let them, nay encouraged them, to eat the sweets which their class mates kindly handed out of their birthday

I don't like it either. It is always bloody Haribo and we are vegetarian.

I dont even know where this custom came from, it wasnt around when I went to school. Actually I dont send in any sweets on DS's birthday either. But I dont mind him comming home with them to the point where I think they should be banned from doing this.

The good thing about sweets is oarebts know they are frap and give accordingly.

Unlike the food covered in " junk free" style logos they buy every week, or the slop they pay fir at school and allow their kids to eat daily.

Why the need to point it out though? Even that makes it am issue which it shouldn't be.

Parents

Crap

Ffs phone

I was at school in the 80s and sweets on birthdays was very much the norm

I also survived not having class parties.
And not receiving birthday or Christmas gifts from everyone I've ever met.
Why is there this DESPERATE need to shower kids with all manner of sugary/plastic/techno/ shite??
This is not love.

The jellies that Iceland sell, Jungle Buddies aren't to bad, they're Vegan and suitable for different religious/cultural groups.

(If more people buy them they will keep selling them), which makes me happy.

I think it says more about the parents who behave like this, rather than anything else.