To object to biscuits being served at NCT coffee mornings ?

[katwith3kittens]

I've just started going to my local NCT coffee mornings and I'm surprised to find that at all of the 5 or so homes I've been in all the kids are getting biscuits whilst the mums have coffee and cake.
I know I'll probably end up hosting one of these things one morning but I dont like the idea of providing sweet stuff for the under 2's. Wouldnt dried fruit or rice cakes be more appropriate ???

its a training ground for middle class mums in how to become competitive and gives them a chance to meet up periodically to see who's dc is crawling first and sigining for their rice cakes..

that was emphatically not my experience, actually. i went to the ante-natal classes and me and dh made some really great, supportive, funny, wicked friends. so good, in fact, that we just met up and hung out and never bothered with the wider NCT groups.

I went to playgroup this morning and my DC had toast made with white bread and marge

When it was tea and biscuits time they each had a chocolate chip cookie

Midday I was running late and expecting other DC home for lunch so I gave them a jammy dodger each so I could get their food made as quickly as possible.

Shoot me

Aitch, my dd gets to snack on (Tesco value!) cornflakes and calls them 'crisps' - mwaaaahha hahhaaaaa.

But she also gets biscuits out of the biscuit tin. Yes, hydro fats and all. In fact she gets what we have and I lead by example .

..i know i know re the nct - just exaggerating for effect

Phwarr, sounds like a rave!

Aitch, if I was partaking in a pub quiz, I might have guessed the acronym, but I've had nothing to do with them.

And I might said National Childbirthing Trust.

There is a shady looking group of women who meet in our Village Hall of a Tuesday morning. I occasionally peer through the dirty window when ds is taking the air.

I assumed they were brewing spells.

our baby was the last one to crawl, wasn't he/she?

Easy answer - if you dont like your child having a buiscuit dont let him have one ! Let him watch all the other kids have biscuit and you give him a rice cake

and whilst you're there dont have a piece of cake yourself , be an example to your child

oh you'd have been so close, desi! i'd have given you a point for trying.

desi - bog lols re your ds taking the air rather than missing his baby yoga class

you win half a packet of jammy dodgers if you get bullseye

Fuck 'em.

That's the best advice I can offer on motherhood.

Whoa .... I have created a bit of a storm in a biscuit barrel here so to speak !

Obviously there are not many of us around at the moment that think like I do, but I take your comments on my (crumb free) chin

I dont object to eating 'treats' why would I ? its just that I dont think very LO's should when there are other options

... and just to clarify I do have 3 children .. the older two do eat biscuits, chocolate, crisps and yes, EVEN rice cakes, and perhaps I am overly precious and lead by example (I dont have any biscuits in the house) but thats me !

I'll let you know what happens when I have my own coffee morning serving breadsticks and hummous '

TED well that's presumably how most of 'em became mothers...

ANyway, round our way it's gin and crack cocaine for the mothers and pot noodles for the DC.

you do that, kat. Let them eat houmus! Eating biscuits would make such a dull thread

DS1 would've cheerfully had raisins and rice cakes - actually, still would at 3.6. He loathes cake and is suspicious of some biscuits (though partial to a rich tea, digestive or, on exciting days, a bourbon - I am training him to be an actuary and make me oodles of money. He often wears a cardy - brown).

DS2 would make eyes at anyone who didn't give him a bit of their cake, or biscuit, or let him sniff their tea (oh for a cup of tea in peace), until they felt awful for depriving the poor little soul, half-starved and cherubic and never had cake before and they'd be doing him a huge favour to give it to him, so 'elp me, missus. Have a look at pic on profile and tell me you could refuse the pout and the big brown eyes

hunker gave my dds a kit kat. and a whole packet of party rings. it was the first time they had ever tasted sugar.
it's true, no word of a lie.
(PS I owe you an email hunker, dh has been off all week and keeps looking at me whenever I go on the computer
"getting your mumsnet fix again"
)

I don't mind the evil sugary allegations, but Nestle? You go too far, Organlugger!

(And yes, you do, don't you - I thought that earlier today, hmm, I thought, harpsi's awfully quiet. Perhaps I shall post her some lovely pasta, I thought )

In an effort to provide healthy snacks, DD's pre-school regularly offer milk and a slice of ham, FGS.

Who does that? A slice of ham for a snack?

All back to mine for coffee and a slice of ham?

Weirdos.

DS ate a Tunnocks Caramel Wafer today.

THIS IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!

They are MINE

it is also important to teach our dcs the central role of Tea and Biscuits in the British culture.
was our great country built upon hummus and rice cakes?
no, it was not.
no wonder the country goeth to the dogs.

not terribly social but again i'd rather have slice of ham and a breadstick and hummous than a french fancy any day.