to be planning a letter of complaint to the PTFA for poisoning my children at the Christmas fair?

[Mincepiedermama]

Why does it have to be so packed with sugar? After the fair at the juniors my nearly three year old was sick several times in the night because someone gave him those disgusting sugar walking sticks.

At the Infants fair yesterday I gave my kids pocket money and sent them off browsing reminding them about the sugar poisoning incident so ds3 decided to go for the lucky dip. He pulled out a handbag which I thought was great. I later discovered it was FULL of lollies FGS!

I can;'t watch them all every minute of the Christmas Fair because it's one of the places they should be given freedom to roam. Also I was running a stall.

I love school fairs but the sugar thing really ruins them for me and poisons my kids. Why are people so obsessed with sugar for kids?

I have many years to go at these schools so am thinking of writing or talking to the PTFA people about capping the amount of sugar available at these events. Is that reasonable?

Now if you'll excuse me I have to put some more vomitty bedding in the washing machine.

oh feck there are EIGHT pages of this, not one.

ack well, everyone ignores me nowadays anyway...

Who are you anyway?

Who gets wine at school discos??

we get wine and beer at pta halloween party

we have a non-alcohol policy .. someone made non-alcoholic mulled wine with cranberry juice apple juice and the fixings .. surprisingly drinkable it was

We get wine at all our school 'dos' darling.

the only we I can get through some of them!

I have spent the last couple of hours trying to work out what a sugar walking stick was!!! Candy cane!!!

whenachildisbored, was that comment supposed to be funny? I wasn't saying anything worse than other posters did.

poison!could have been worse they could have had fruitshoots

We have wine and lager. Good prices too, about a quid for a can.

I am now very cross at the pathetic lack of sweets at our Christmas fair
in fact I only won a bottle of Piat D'or and a rusty can of chickpeas
and, also, while I am in mode, why haven't we got a festive face hmmm? hmmmmmmm? answer me that!

tiny tim, I can't help picturing this tiny tim instead of this one

Just scrolled down a long way and noticed this from OP:
"It's just a shame there are so many dealers on stall corners waiting to corrupt them"
Is sugar a euphemism for something else? To think I went to/helped at all those school fairs without understanding what was really going on.

I just think of [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/muppetKobal460.jpg this one]]

Oops this one

I'm going to miss being tinytim when christmas is over!

ALERTALERT

sugar hysteria

Do the teachers hide behind the blackboard and pass round a hip flask Martianbishop?

we are waiting to corupt them im outside her house now with some happy meals

festive

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Spidermama, I'm totally with you on the fact that sugar is a useless and even harmful for our metabolism.
Any nutritionist will confirm and it's common knowledge nowadays. But most people are in denial.
I don't understand why it's perfectly reasonnable on mumsnet (and even a sort of snobbery) to condemn formula milk manufacturers and not be lucid about the sugar industry.

However, you are overreacting. It's not devillish and it would be very unfair to let your kids participate in such events and deny what other kids are having. IT'S a TREAT on a special day.
No different from having a glass of champagne (or more) at an adult Xmas party!
I echo what others said. It's up to us teach them not to binge.

See Cod if only my kids could be like the little guest you had round the other day who put your right on your lolly offer. I would be so proud.

Lol@everyones tiny tims.

Doodle, I remember the school discos my dd used to have at her previous school. load of rubbish. The discos at her current school are afull of kids having a great time, and laughing at their parents dancing