Aibu to not know why you wouldn't be able to feed your DC's breakfast?

[Bearlover16]

Daughters school has recently extended the 'paid' breakfast club to 'free' breakfast club due to an increase in the number of children going to school not having had any breakfast.

Are people really that much on the bread line that they cannot buy a loaf of bread or some cheap porridge oats for less than a quid?

I'm not well off by any means and I do donate to food banks when I can. I also ensure my dcs have had breakfast before leaving the house as I was always led to believe it's the most important meal of the day.

Evil saying that the government won’t pay her fares to and form her college course.

Never mind just seen it.

FT uni students are entitled to no benefits as it's what your loan is for.

Can't afford the time? Get up earlier.
Can't afford the electricity? Eat bread and drink a glass of milk or a bowl of basic range cornflakes.
Can't afford the milk? £1 for four pints.
Really can't afford it? Then yes free school breakfast and all the sympathy and help society can offer.
But mostly I just see excuses for not parenting properly on this thread

My two secondary children have a free breakfast club but its to help with homework and socialising with peers

DS2 has breakfast at home every day, so does DD now I let her have pains aux chocolats, some children just don't want to eat breakfast. Breakfast club at my DC's school seems to be used mostly by the DC of working parents, and you have to pay.

All of those things would be good, and are great ideals. But right now, at the moment, there are children going to school hungry. Hungry children are disruptive and don’t learn well - so let’s fix that problem, shall we? Everyone keeps going on about how cheap it is to provide breakfast, so it shouldn’t take much out of the school’s budget.

I agree. Of course it's irresponsible to send hungry children to school, but it's seemingly widespread and pretty easily fixed, so why not fix it.

Poor kiddos.

mmzz But mostly I just see ignorance in your post

@differentnameforthis Of what am I ignorant? I am saying get a grip and help yourself, if you can. If you can't, then we should all help you whilst according you the utmost respect.

Why else would there be a section about student income on housing benefit forms?
Because they're assessing your income if you are PT at a college you may be entitled to some HB. If you are full time at a university, you are not, your maintenance grant or loan covers the rent expenses. So why would you need HB?

That’s just not true, you can claim HB as a student if you are also a parent.
Not full HB but top up for DC(s)

Google

'Most full-time students are not eligible for housing benefit but part-time students can usually claim.'

See attached

That’s from the document if you click on the link which starts with the paragraph you have copied and pasted 🙄

The reason they say most FT students are not eligible is because THEY ARE NOT PARENTS

Mine isn't from NUS for a start.

Secondly once you claim housing benefits it gets rejected due to loans (I've never needed HB there's a couple of parents on my course who have) they also say you're not entitled to benefits due to not having to pay council tax when you're a student.

But mostly I just see excuses for not parenting properly on this thread

Yes of course. People who refuse to eat breakfast simply have improper parents

Because forcing a child some food down their neck at 7am they really don't want is the epitome of good parenting

The reason they say most FT students are not eligible is because THEY ARE NOT PARENTS

Most? I was a FT student at uni with a six month old. There were 20 on a course of 150 who were not Parents.

JonSnowsWife 😂

I think it's laziness.

Porridge oats and other excellent breakfasts are cheap.

Yes tunnel but what if your DC aren't hungry until 12?

I had this bollocks on a children's report in Glasgow: "Evil is sending DS1 to school without breakfast." YES, BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO FUCKING EAT!

Evil I have major issues around food because I was forced to eat so much shit as a kid.

It's why I'll never force my child to eat anything they don't want because some sanctimonious folk will hook their judgeypants at me. Forcing them doesn't work. My Grandma (with good intentions bless her heart) did it with my DM and her DSis. They're both now in their 50s and still wont eat before 9am.

All the judging on the world of GM being able to afford pennies for cornflakes and milk etc wouldn't have got either to eat their brekky before then.

What this thread is really about, is someone appearing to be jealous that someone else is going to get the same thing for free that they have had to pay for.

Dippingmytoesin

You are wrong.
Doesn’t matter how many times you try to tell me otherwise.
I’m not going to screen shot you my bank statements and student income from last year to prove a point, but I could if I wanted to 🤣

You know, I've just spent my morning cleaning my kitchen. It hasn't been improved or changed since we moved into this house 18 years ago and I am always muttering about how much I'd love a new kitchen, new appliances - a dishwasher, tumble dryer etc. Then, I opened my food cupboard and realised how incredibly bloody lucky I am. We have loads of food, tins, pastas, rice, herbs, a ton of stuff in the freezer and fridge and electricity and gas on constant supply to cook and eat and stay warm. I felt so ashamed of myself for wanting such bloody ridiculous things when we have everything we want. I work in a homeless shelter and have been in this sector for years and seeing adults hungry and homeless is bad enough - now it's children, actual children and no, their parents at not always feckless junkies and if they are why dont we help them! I was an alcoholic for years when my eldest DD was small and I remember, and am ashamed to admit, I put my drink above her on occasions. Luckily I had family around me to ensure her well being but many people don't have. The judgemental arseholes on here have riled me so much I had to post. Just stop and think and look.

You make them eat. Of my 2, one never really wanted to eat. He certainly saw it as a chore. He ate 3 meals a day though.

There's a strong correlation (informally observed over decades) of children who don't have breakfasts with those who don't read with their parents and whose parents don't attend meetings with teachers, the children who don't have PE kit the children whose parents forget to sign permission forms etc.