To think my DD's nursery should not feed her haribo

[milliec]

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I'm surprised they haven't banned the use of candles due to Health and Safety.

you can get a nasty splinter from a wooden train, are the staff receiving adequate training/hazard pay?

Sweets/cake are for parents to decide in my opinion. Not nursery.

Er no...........we bake a couple of times a week....ds is not obsessed with cake though.

He knows he cant keep the train,it is kept on a shelf in the classroom.

if you let her have a pack of funsize haribo or a lolly occasionally, then IMO, you should not be irked at nursery giving her one or two sweets as a part of a birthday and diwali celebration..

a funsize pack of haribo contains maybe 6 - 8 sweets, so if your daughter has had those before, and she was hyper at nursery, it might have been all the excitement that made her giddy, rather than the sweets?

but i definitely agree re the gelatine issue raised by another poster...

so , IMO, YABU

at you lot

glad you see the funny side lullaby, I am only messing about cos it's the weekend

Greeny

lully i aspire to be as domestically goddessly as you , my lovely x

I used to get wound up over my ILs giving my dd sweets.

Then I got a life

Who cares? If you give them healthy food the rest of the time, then a packet of sweets is hardly going to make much of a difference.

I assume they would know if a child had any intolerances & cater to their needs?

Lulu

Suger doesn't make kids hyper, it's the excitement of the party, that usually gets them hyper.

There was an experiment on tv recently showing children whose parents said suger made them hyper going to a party. The food laid out was a ll sugar, cakes fizzy drinks etc. When the parents left it was swapped for very healthy snacks. The party had lots of clowns and noise and the children were allowed to get very excited.
Parents picked them up claimed children were on a sugar high.

Next week same children different party, this time parents show healthy food. Food swapped for sugar fest when parents went, however very quiet party,
Parents commented on how calm children were, when told they had been eating sugar all afternoon, they were astonished.

sweets odnt mek kdsi hyper

My problem with haribo is that they have done away with the old fashioned corner shop with jars of sweeties. What's wrong with the youth of today is that they haven't watched enough grown ups climbing stepladders in small shops in order to fetch 1/4 of mint humbugs, IMO. Where's the fun in a plastic bag from the supermarket?

at edam, there is a old fashioned sweet shop at my parents house and my dd's love going there, they are not to fussed about getting any sweets but they love looking at all the jars that cover the walls and are fasinated by the fact that even if they only have 10p the old lady can weigh that ammount out for them in any sweet they fancy.

lol at splinter hazard

I totally agree with firefly ...

If your child has an allergy/intolerance or special dietry needs then the nursery would should be aware of this.

If not, then surely as long as your child is fed a balanced diet at all other times a little pack of sweeties won't harm??

Sounds lovely, Kerry, lucky you!

we have one of those shops just near DS's school

irefuse to go metric and always ask for a quarter of whatever it is.. usually aniseed balls or cherry lips

Hate Haribo with a passion.

Chocolate ... now thats a different matter.

I wouldnt like my child to be given crap sweet stuff at nursery /playgroup either.

Mind you I am a well know biscuit hater on here

I find it appalling that they would show such cultural insensitivity to Hindu vegetarians and vegetarians and vegans in general. How hard is it to get veggie sweets? Even Starburst are vegan!

I would certainly complain about that, because we are a vegan family.

YANBU because they were obviously very young children and they really should have checked if some parents minded them having sweets.

yeah i coul,d get a life. but i dont like kids getting given haribo or sweet without me being there. why?

because dd1 has allergy to food colourings.

DD goes to 2 pre-schools, both have a healthy food policy regarding snacks, and have guidelines for lunchboxes.

BUT

Come fundraising time it's all cake sales and sweets in a lucky dip.

Haribo though. They could at least have got something nice.

LOEV HARIOBO

AND THIS thred has just showns me what a good website htey haev - gmaes and all!

Most of us 70s/80s kids were brought up on the most bizarre foodstuffs; tinned meatballs, findus pancakes, angel delight etc and, yes, that was shite and has probably had an adverse effect but I honestly think this uptight nonsense we have now will end up being more damaging to kids relationship to food than any amount of Haribo.