Water in primary school

[magickingdom82]

All the children at our primary school are supposed to bring a bottle with water only to drink throughout the day. Bottles are apparently checked. However I know a tonne of parents who send their kids in with flavoured juices because their kid won't drink water but AIBU to think it isn't fair on those that do send water in. As long as the majority of parents send in water they get away with sending juice...

*What I was saying about people who are not experts in the field (teachers not being dietitans/ dentists) but still making decisions they are probably not qualified to make...

Most parents aren’t dietitians or dentists either bit somehow still manage to make decisions about their children.

Schools are in loco parentis during school hours. Rules are devised that make sense for the majority of children. If you’d prefer to make your own rules you can choose another school, or home-school, or best of all, become a governor and become part of the decision-making process.

OP ignore everyone saying you're silly for saying it's not fair. They're clearly the ones who send their children in with juice!

Nope, ds only drinks milk or water, just don't get worked up about what other people do with their kids.

If people even children are genuinely thirsty they will drink water but there is a real hysteria about everyone having a water bottle permanently available

You can't argue with stupid sums up some people on here perfectly.

If you've never encountered a child that would rather be seriously ill than put something in their mouth that they can't cope with then you have no fucking idea what you're being sanctimonious about and are rather lucky

Ginger my child won’t. No matter what and finding even diluting juice they will take is a nightmare.

I'd just be happy that my kid drank water, I've got no interest in what other people's children drink.

electric ds will only drink Asda’s own orange squash at just the right strength or lemonade (and that is only occasionally)

sirzy

Sounds a nightmare - what do you do if you’re somewhere you can’t get or have run out of Asda orange squash?

Suburban, I agree that parents should be free to make their own decisions.
I also accept that schools are in loco parentis during school hours.
I just think that certain things don't need to be dictated by the school- for instance, the choice of drink you, as the parent, have made to put in the child's 'water' bottle that morning.
And if schools do want to enforce rules, they should at least check whether they are medically/nutritionally sound first ( as I said, my dietitian colleague laughed- in a sad way- at the list of acceptable/unacceptable foods at my son's primary school.
And no, I didn't become a governor- I am too busy on MN. I just moan instead.
And thankfully, DS now at secondary school where he s free to buy a juice drink from the school canteen which has, I think, around 230 calories and I don't know how much sugar. (A lot, I assume).

this bothers you?

I go out prepared and always make sure I have at least one full back up in. When we go on holiday I take it with us. Touch wood we haven’t had issues yet

We are on full fat ribena. Sigh.

What I don’t get it. Child say I want juice. You say no water is the rule. They say Johnny gets juice. You say well you don’t.

End of discussion.

If the child whines tel them to ask the teacher. Or say Johnny’s Mum has different rules. My rule is you get water.

If my 5 year old can get that people are allowed different things why can’t an adult? Or another child ?

And since you get the gold polished parenting badge for only giving water why do you care?

If schools weren't so hot there would be no need for all this drinking.

"If schools weren't so hot there would be no need for all this drinking."
If people hadn't been taken for a ride by the soft drinks/bottled water industry there would be no need for all this drinking.

OP ignore everyone saying you're silly for saying it's not fair. They're clearly the ones who send their children in with juice!

All of my 4 children drink water, I know I'm lucky because I didnt actually have to do anything to get them to do this, they just like it. OP is an adult and to think that 'its not fair' because her child has a parent able to make him drink the healthy option is 'silly'.
Me and my children are completely unbothered by whats in any other childrens waterbottles because it does not affect us in the slightest and any its 'not fair' complaints because other children are not following the rules would be stopped straight away and not entertained further by me.

If my child with severe sn accepts that other children in his class drink things other than water I'm sure your's can.

And if schools do want to enforce rules, they should at least check whether they are medically/nutritionally sound first

I would say it’s basic common sense that water is a better drink to sip at during the day than squash. No need for a research paper on it.

OFGS we used to have a small glass of water at lunchtime and a small bottle of warm milk with crusty in the silver top if it hadn't been hacked by a bird. We were probably more active than most of the kids these days and we didn't keel over from dehydration. If the rules are water inlyvand you don't drink water then you wait till you get home,

Hoarding are you suggesting that you can persuade a child with SEN to drink water because it is a basic and essential substance? My DD will not. She will not drink anything unless I insist - and I’m not with her at school to insist. It has to be full sugar Ribena or nothing. Even then she wouldn’t think to drink it at school if I sent it in for her. She feels no urges to eat or drink at all.

My ds is allowed to bring weak squash in, and also a bottle/carton of juice. He has additional needs, he has a care plan that specifies he can do both these things based on specific advice from a dietician, continence nurse and gastroenterologist.

He understands that other children have different needs for different reasons, and his sisters also understand this, I would hope other children and adults have this simple understanding too.

This again 🙄. Giving a child juice is not lazy parenting. It’s just juice. I’m an adult, have never drunk water and have never had a filling nor am I obese. My

Oops posted early. My child drinks juice. I sent him in with water everyday and his bottle was coming home full so now I send him in with weak juice. This isn’t because he has learnt that if he makes a fuss I will give in and give him juice because juice has never been seen as a treat or something he needs to ask for, it’s jist been given as standard. Don’t really see the problem.

Why do children need constant access to a drink?? I don’t get it. We all survived as children without water bottles!