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 ???

talulasmum - great reasons to eat fruit and nut, cheesecake, and jaffa cakes!

to the op - I think you took all the teasing really well

entirely up to you if you'd rather your lo doesn't have sweet stuff

as you can see, most people disagree though

talulasmum...could i borrow your mum?

sorry tallulasmum

Talulasmum !! so sorry
a) for getting your name wrong twice and
b) for my first comment on this thread where I thought you were the op and not katwith3kittens
I'll go now...

yes, you can all borrow my mum, providing your roads have access to cranes.

Our NCT group meetings drove me mad When the dcs were tiny babies we had chocolate fro the mums - all brought something yummy and shared over coffee. It was great.
Then the dcs got toddly and they got a plate of fruit while the mum hosting put something 'naughty' - that's how they described it - in the kitchen for the mums to sneak when the dcs weren't looking It was so miserable and righteous I don't know why I stuck it out!
Then again this was the same woman who wouldn't let the children just play with the toys, they had to wait til everyone arrived and then do an 'activity' at the kitchen table. She couldn't bear the noise of children playing and took all the batteries out of every noisy toy her ds was given. So sad and so weird... Hardly see her now

Ooo this post has reminded me. Must get a few packs of biscuits to binge on now i'm on mat leave!

at talulasmum!

LOL at Tallullahsmum

also big cuddle to the OP who took the way her thread had gone very well!

oh lol talulasmum...you are priceless....

OP...not even going to respond, lol....been said many a time on this thread already

i used to eat muck when i was a child (and stick stones up my nose but that another story...) and i survived
surely the odd biccie wont kill no one

Threads like this make me want to run out and buy fruit shoots and greggs sausage rolls plus a chocolate donut for after.

Everything in moderation you surely dont expect to sit tucking into cake whilst the lo's get rice cakes

can't be arsed to read this thread but yes you are unreasonable,if you don't want a biscuit don't eat one - duh.

acksherley, i read that raisins can be bad for the teeth as they stick to them, so better off with a jammy dodger

I had the NCT group from Hell - all competative mummys, all went back to work (bar me), all went skiing when the baby's were 6 month old (bar us) and there houses looked like no kids lived there. I WS THE OLD ONE OUT, they did not help with my PND. Thankfully we moved to the other end of the country and have not kept in touch [grim]

Blimey, what a miserable killjoy! No biscuits?? At a coffee morning???

You weren't at my NCT group were you Themadscaryhouse?!!!

mmmmmm biscuits
[hungry emoticon]

Yes, probably rice cakes would be more appropriate.

However, could you not suffer comfort this once -- you shall just have to stick forks in your legs between bites.

When it's your turn, offer what you want to offer. Your house, your rules. Just remember that under 2s grow up. They have to learn moderation. The odd biscuit once a week isn't going to ruin their teeth. But you are entitled to your opinion. How about offering bread sticks etc as an alternative?

colditz, you are on fire this week!

Blimey, my NCT group seems to have departed from the norm as depicted here. Alcohol was always our drink of choice and if we could enjoy it sans children, better still.

And to the OP, YABU.

Can't you tell my house is squalid and I'm tapping away here as a frantic displacement activity?