To think this isn't quite right?

[Allisgood1]

Dd (6) in the park after school the other day. She has two best friends, and the backstory (which I won't get into too much) is that one friend has a helicopter mum and has gradually been driving a wedge between not only our relationships but also the 3 girls seem to be playing less and less together.

Anyway, other day helicopter mums (HM) dd had a massive sausage roll. My dd and other friend asked if they could have some. Friend turned to HM and said "do I have to?" And HM said "only if you want". Well she decided that actually she didn't want to. In the end the roll was far too large for her to finish but she still refused to share it and HM said "why didn't you bring a snack?"

Is it me or should we be encouraging our children to share?

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Forcing people to share is not good. She needs to make her own decision.

Sharing teaches some questionable things.

Yabu.

Sharing is what will bring happiness to the child, not this closed attitude most have encouraged here. Remember to live in a community, not a family bubble, where our own child is sacred. All children are sacred. And sacred people always share!

Eh?

So by rights a child isnt sacred if they choose to keep something that is theirs? That some one else has rights to it simply because they ask for it.

If only more criminals knew! As long as you ask for something, regardless of the answer, you have right to then take it. Who knew!

I am now eating sausage rolls at 170 calories a pop.

I blame you all. Especially you, Jesus. And Dave.

This pisses me off!... My so. Always has a snack when in the park after school, to tide him over until dinner. It's not a treat. His friend always askse if he can have one or whatever ds is having. I say that we don't have enough for 2 but I really feel like saying not my problem, go ask your mum.

I think it isn't quite right to take a massive sausage roll as an after school snack.

And Lo, Peppa Wellington found herself with THE CURSE OF A LARDY ARSE

It was the sausage rolls, she said. But she was created in the image of the LORD, and given free will, and thus she was damned

And it rained down sausage rolls across the land.

Rendering the OP irrelevant.

See had Jesus been there he could have fed the entire park. A modern day feeding of the 5000. But then the OPs dd wouldn't have been allowed one anyway given that they are 'shit', missing out on a miracle.

I think it is rude to eat in front of others without offering to share. That goes for any age. Quite surprised to discover that some people find such behaviour acceptable. Is this another British Thing I Will Never Understand? (I'm thinking of trademarking that phrase. )

I wouldn't want a bit of a second hand already chewed on sausage roll.

Amazing how people associate basic human values like sharing with Jesus! Surely your not saying that atheists are self serving. Christians aren't the only ones who need to live in a community. Free will should allow us to want to share. Not be selfish and glutinous.

I would like to state for the record that I do not believe in Jesus.

I am an atheist to the core.

The autocorrect to glutinous has made me roar with laughter for some reason

It's basic manners. If my child asked another for food, I would say "no, that's so and so's snack. Mummy will get you something from a cafe/shop/later".

It's possible to break a chunk from the unchewed end.

So, what we're now saying is, Helicopter Mum's child is not Jesus therefore she isn't Our Lady the Madonna with the big pastries?

Sausage rolls are very glutinous

Peppa that's ten Hail Marys for you. Do not blaspheme the delicious flaky pastry

Eww the unchewed end will have had a 6 year old's hands all over it.

No, Sparkling it is THE SIZE OF AN ARM. The 6 year old will have chewed on one end, held it a third of the way down, tops. So there is probably a good 12 inches of untouched, oily, flaky goodness to wrench off...

Ooh good point Wide. Or maybe it was so big it came with a sausage roll holding device or something.

Like some sort of campbed thing, maybe?

I suppose the other idea (if the child has consumed a bit of the sausage roll already)
Is to just put them off. Explain it's had your childs germs on it.
This humongous sausage roll we are talking about today, however, must have had a portion to share?

Yes, like a sausage roll grip Wide.

Like this, but bigger?