to be annoyed that my dds school has been giving out certificates to children who bring in healthy packed lunches?

[spudmasher]

Today she took in a ham roll, four cherry tomatoes, a few slices of cucumber, some fresh pineapple and a small apple pie.

She was not given a certificate because she had the apple pie in her lunch!

When I was making her lunch tonight she asked me not to put a little cake in because it was unhealthy and she would not get a certificate.

I thought it was unreasonable to reward a child, or deny a reward on the basis of decisions made by the parent.

I also feel that six is too young an age to bear the responsbility of deciding what they should eat. Surely the child should be carefree and just trust the parents to know what is healthy?

I also thought that a little fat and sugar occassionally, will not be harmful to a child.

I also felt that they are encouraging children to deny themselves small pleasures - could lead to eating disorders imo.

Thanks. Feel better now.

Am I over reacting?

Have sent snotty e mail to school........

yanbu - kids need fats and sugar and whole dairy products.

Make your dd her own 'certificate' and write to the school about this.

Go to Thornton's and make her a certificate out of solid chocolate

PMSL. Mp

make her a certificate out of lard and pork scratchings

it's crazy. i work with children tbh the healthy eating thing is driving me bananas.

a policy on healthy eating, all childcare workers have them now. there is a limit to how many 'safe sandwich' leaflets i can give out

Safe sandwiches???!!!

STEP AWAY FROM THE SANDWICH......

Hm...your childs school does the healthy food thing, they give out a certificate to childre that only have healthy food in them...so, yabu to be pissed off at tyhem...whilst I understadn that their aim is to get those parents and children that mainly do the crisp, bikkies choclate variety...in the end an apple pie is not an healthy option...
our sschools say if packed lunch is done, tehn keep any unhealthy foods as treats for after school...nowt wrong with that!

Spudmasher

WHAT'S WRONG WITH A SIX YEAR OLD EATING APPLE PIE????????????????

pray tell

I really don't think it's controversial to conclude that banning cake, pizza etc. is thick.

I have long suspected that the people who set these food rules are really really thick.

Particularly when you hear about them demanding that children have sugar free shite with aspartame in it, or low fat processed shite instead of higher fat good food. Who are they? They are not nutritionists, are they? Who are they? What are their qualifications? Why are they in charge? Who put them in charge? Why? I really am perplexed.

What is UNHEALTHY is a small child who doesn't get any FAT in their diet!!

An apple pie is not a healthy option??!!

It is difficult for schools to devise a good way of encouraging healthy eating, and your school has got it wrong I think, Spud.

If they are going to pass judgment on lunchboxes, it should be positive praise for the good things, not penalising for what they deem to be bad, which is debatable unless it is actually deadly nightshade. They might also look at whether the lunch is balanced ie has foods from the major food groups.

If dd's lunch had consisted solely of a (shop bought?) apple pie, it would not have been a balanced meal. But as the lunch included complex carbohydrates, protein and fresh veg for fibre and vitamins as well, I think it was magnificently well balanced.

But i do cringe at the school delving into every kid's lunchbox.

kIds need essential fats (fat and fat is NOT thew same), they do not actually need sugar, and well, dairy is one of those things...jsut lets say that in asia where dairy consumption id limited to nil, they do not have as high occurance of things like osteoporosis as we have in the western worls...

YANBU
Until schools actually give birth to our children, we should be able to choose what they eat. We can choose school dinners, hoping that the content of them matches our expectations or we can choose to send in a packed lunch, and fill it with what we choose.
Either way, schools are not our childrens parents and and should not punish them for the choices their parents have made. If the school has a problem they should contact the parents directly
I would be incandescent if this happened in my childs school.

An apple pie is not a healthy option if it accompanies sixteen other apple pies, or three bags of crisps and a mars bar.

In conjunction with a ham roll, tomatoes, cucumber and pineapple, of course it's healthy. Healthy eating isn't about individual foodstuffs, it's about the overall balance in the diet. Adn that's what appears to be seriously missing from the "healthy foods/ bad foods" approach.

have you not seen the safe sandwich leaflet?

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the schools policy, they shouldn't be giving a certificate to a child who has a 'virtually fat free' packed lunch. If the school is doing this then you should insist that certificates are only given to children who have a balanced lunch, and it should be judged by a member of staff who is aware that a healthy lunch for a 6yo is not the same as a healty lunch for a 40yr.

Telling 6yr girls that if they ever eat fat then it is bad could be very damaging in the long term.

I could see the logic if they said that to get a certificate you must have some fat, protien, carbs, fruit/veg and maybe calcium and you must not have crisps, sweets, artifical sweeteners/additives etc but to say cake and pie are bad for you is insanity and irresponsible.

yes but 3andnomore they probably die at 34 from malnutrition

I am now thinking about my poor little dd sitting with her lunch tomorrow s herself waiting for the Demon Dinner lady to come round to have a look at what she's got.

This drives me crazy.

My ds2 (8) is pretty obsessed about food, and what is 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' ... and he doesn't get it from home. He's thin as a rake, but will decline certain foods because they are 'unhealthy'.

We have several anorexic boys at my secondary school, two of whom have been very seriously ill. So I am very aware of these issues with boys as well as girls.

3andnomore that meal WITHOUT THE APPLE PIE would NOT be a healthy meal for a 6 year old

Oh God , no

Would be very tempted to send in

Sausage roll
Blue fizzy drink
Quavers
Smartie cake
Smartie mega mega box
Lard
Lard cakes
Pies
More Lard

Just to watch them combust with righteousness.

How absurd.........