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Original poster

to not allow ds (aged 6) to drink COFFEE at school

119 replies

MrsMills · 07/02/2007 11:08

They now have a drinks table which they are allowed to use on an afternoon and have been shown how to make coffee (filtered). His preffered choice is milky with sugar apparently. This had been going on for aobut 2 weeks as far as I know and I was not asked if it would be o.k..

I need to go and see for myself what they are doing, but the other parents I have spoken to seem fine about it.

I however cannot believe they are giving him coffee. Bear in mind that this is the same school who told me off for putting 6 pringle crisps in his lunchbox thread here .

Arrrgh I don't even know where to start!

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morningpaper · 07/02/2007 11:38

Is this in the UK?

I remember when I first discovered coffee when I was about 13... really liked it so I drank about six cups and thought I was going to die

morningpaper · 07/02/2007 11:39

oh sorry SWEDEN

probably normal then

I wouldn't complain

Are they allowed to smoke a small joint with it?

scotlou · 07/02/2007 11:46

I started drinking coffee at around 4 - strong, black, with sugar! But guess I'm in the minority! (my kids don't have it mind you)

franca70 · 07/02/2007 11:48

I grew up on caffelatte for breakfast, but that was Italy in the seventies (and probably from 8yrs on)

NotQuiteCockney · 07/02/2007 11:51

I probably wouldn't object. When in Stokholm and all that ...

And it is only one cup of milky coffee per day, max, isn't it?

bizzi · 07/02/2007 12:06

I would be unhappy with the sugar in the drink almost as much as the coffee. Try weaning a child off sugar...

Dottydot · 07/02/2007 12:13

We used to have milky coffee and scones every Friday at my primary school - it was my favourite day of the week!!

Dottydot · 07/02/2007 12:14

And that was in Manchester, not Sweden!

Original poster
MrsMills · 07/02/2007 12:15

See now, this is what I mean - am I being unreasonable?

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franca70 · 07/02/2007 12:23

you know, I don't know mrs mills. I don't think I'd like ds to drink a cup of coffee everyday, like a grown up. but maybe they need something hot after having been outside (- 15 !!!). and even if it has the same caffeine amount, I'd rather he drank hot chocolate...

clumsymum · 07/02/2007 12:24

Um, is coffee so incredibly toxic for children then? News to me.

I would have thought one cup with milk isn't going to kill him.

Oh and there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with an active child having some sugar in his drink, as long as he brushes his teeth and isn't already obese. Better that than filling him up with aspartame IMO

hannahsaunt · 07/02/2007 12:27

I guess it depends on the coffee to milk ratio (is it hot milk?). I thought it adorable that at the dc's nursery they get packed out play as often as possible and if it's cold and snowy when they come in the kitchens have steaming jugs of hot chocolate at the ready (and fresh scones if it's morning tea time). I want to go there!!

Lullabyloo · 07/02/2007 12:29

i'm utterly
i'd be very cross indeed.....
.....i'm speechless

franca70 · 07/02/2007 12:31

that sounds lovely hannah, I want to go there as well!

Cappuccino · 07/02/2007 12:36

Coffee is a Pure Good

after all I am a frothy kind of a drink myself

ELF1981 · 07/02/2007 12:42

If my dd were given coffee I would be very annoyed.
Okay, so at the mo its a no no as she's only 16 months but if her school were letting her drink coffee in the future, I'd blow my top.
I'm speaking as somebody who had a real caffine problem - couldn't go without so many cups of coffee a day etc, coming off it was horrible - terrible headaches. Now I'll drink a hot chocolate or a tea (I know it contains caffine but it is good for you supposedly).

Rhubarb · 07/02/2007 12:44

There'd be an uproar if they DIDN'T do this in France!

I'd be pissed off too as I think coffee is the devil's brew and I don't want my kids smelling of the evil stuff.

Original poster
MrsMills · 07/02/2007 12:45

Seriously Rhubarb, do they do this in France?

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Rhubarb · 07/02/2007 12:54

They have no probs letting the kids drink coffee. I think it is an option in the schools yes.

Just as they add salt to EVERYTHING even baby food as they believe it trains their palates.

franca70 · 07/02/2007 12:55

come here cappuccino, you are exactly what i need now

Cappuccino · 07/02/2007 14:49

I think it wouldn't be out of order to ask why in a nice way

especially bearing in mind the Pringles dichotomy

they might have a reasoning behind it

I've been thinking about this actually and do remember when I was an older kid being aware that I had no idea how to make a drink for guests because no-one had taught me

whereas my mum's friends kids had been making tea and coffee for guests from a really young age

is it being done as a Life Skill?

NotQuiteCockney · 07/02/2007 14:50

But, honestly, would Brits find this so unacceptable if it was milky tea? I doubt there's much if any difference between the two.

bumblebeee · 07/02/2007 14:55
Shock
handlemecarefully · 07/02/2007 14:57

One cup of coffee per day.... I would think it 'odd', but it wouldn't unduly bother me.

However i totally accept MrsMills comments about the school censoring pringles for her child and then letting him have coffee. There are double standards here.

handlemecarefully · 07/02/2007 14:58

I wouldn't give my child milky tea NVQ but not on health and diet grounds, more because it sort of looks...well....errrrrr

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