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

342 replies

Mincepiedermama · 09/12/2007 12:52

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.

OP posts:
edam · 09/12/2007 19:45

Slim, did you see MB's post below?

"Well, this 'oaf' knows that glucose in the basic entry point for the conversion of energy in living things. So not quite a 'poison'. Granted we can get it from the break down of complex carbs, but it isn't a poison, not even to diabetics who need to take account of their carb/ insulin balance."

CodRestYeMerryGentelmen · 09/12/2007 19:46

ah but i htought he was a wnaker htough.
he is tbh.

ineedapoo · 09/12/2007 19:47

Well sugar is a natural substance might I be so bold as to assume you don't let your children eat fruit (fructose natural fruit sugar) or milk (lactose milk sugar)if you don't like them having sugar. Come on you are their parent tell them no prior to the school fair or don't go not hard is it

mollymawk · 09/12/2007 19:50

Aha, thanks Kathy! Have just read all through this thread and have spent half of it thinking "surely 'disillusioned' isn't right?" but couldn't think what it should have been. Ta!
No constructive comments to add re sugar.

lalisa · 09/12/2007 19:51

This is a fascinating thread. There seem to be two types of people here:

  1. Those who accept that the world is not perfect and full of stuff that's not great for us (ok, there's a lot of sugar at the fair) but that the best thing is to guide our kids through it, teach them moderation and hope for the best.

and

  1. Those that want to change the world (there shall be no sugar at the fair!). Hopeless, angry idealists who sometimes piss peole off.

Mincespidermama is a 2. Most the people who say she's overreacing are a 1. I really sympathise with the 2's. I'd probably be one, except that I like to have friends. Good luck changing the world mincespidermama. It'll be easier if you stop insulting everyone though.

slim22 · 09/12/2007 19:53

Never said poison. Just very overrated and quite unnecessary.
Hence my analogy with alcohol. mederate=pleasure. Binge=pain.

I'm agreeing with spidermama and not trying to convince anyone else or have a debate. I'm pretty happy with my theory.
(clearly, being preg atm and having to watch my "poison" intake puts me in the right mood for this

Blandmum · 09/12/2007 19:54

We wish you a Lentil Christmas;
We wish you a lentil Christmas;
We wish you a Lentil Christmas and nutritionally balanced New Year.

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin (or significant other of either gender);
Good tidings for Christmas and a Sober New Year.

Oh, bring us bread and water;
Oh, bring us Bread and water ;
Oh, bring us Bread and water and spike to sit on!

We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some, so bring some out here

We wish you a Lentil Christmas;
We wish you a Lentil Christmas;
We wish you a lentil Christmas and a Nutritionally balanced New Year.

WhenAChildIsBored · 09/12/2007 19:55

yes edam, I'm afraid it was meant to be funny in a donkeying-about irrelevant sort of way. Am overtired and hung over. Sorry!

Curmudgeonlett · 09/12/2007 19:56

actually lalisa

I thought there was

  1. spidermama

  2. people taking the piss of spidermama

it's nice to be corrected though

Curmudgeonlett · 09/12/2007 19:56
slim22 · 09/12/2007 19:56

MB and Edam.

See now, all I can think of is a drink

Scootergrrrl · 09/12/2007 19:59

Surely Spidermama's DCs are behaving in the same way anyone who is denied something they crave would - by gorging on it when they get the chance.
I had a friend who completely banned her daughter from having sweets and chocolate - the little darling used to literally mug the other children at the park for their Buttons or whatever

welliemum · 09/12/2007 20:04

MB

I'm totally baffled at the "vomiting after sugar" thing.

We are lentil weavery healthy eaters here and don't buy sweets for the dds, but when they go to parties and eat loads of rubbish their digestive systems seem to cope somehow

My money is on a virus.

amytheearwaxbanisher · 09/12/2007 20:06

like the song

Mercy · 09/12/2007 20:08

I think next year you should donate a potato or two for the tombola.

yurt1 · 09/12/2007 20:09

please tell me the wine they serve at school discos is rank or I will be

TooTickyDoves · 09/12/2007 20:10

I don't give my dcs a lot of sugary foods and they are often sick after Christmas fairs/other people's birthday parties, and not because they binge. Their bodies just aren't used to dealing with so much shite - or have the sense to eject it.

justwaitingaboutforsanta · 09/12/2007 20:11

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OverMyDeadStuffedTurkey · 09/12/2007 20:11

my ds is nearly 5 and couldn't eat a whole candy cane in one sitting, he can't even finish a lollipop, so am very surprised and that your 3 yr old managed to eat a whole one while sitting on yuor knee and you where so engrossed in a conversation that you didn't notice!!

As with any 'poion', it's not the substance that is the poison, it's the dose. You have no one but yourself to blame for allowing your son to OD under your very nose!

Oh, and, did you know, all carohydrate is broken down into simple sugars like those found in sweets in your body, even the carbs in quinoa

Blandmum · 09/12/2007 20:13

yurt1, last time we went there was a rather nice Cava! indeed!

welliemum · 09/12/2007 20:15

But it won't be the sugar making them sick, tooticky - it'll be all the other revolting stuff they put in confectionary.

Mercy · 09/12/2007 20:15

Yurt1 - wine served at school discos is rank. Because the white wine is warm and is served in plastic cups.

Plus certain people who don't get out much get carried away and make fools of themselves at a family event.

Not me though.

welliemum · 09/12/2007 20:20

And look how cross I'm getting at the OP, because I do think that the sweets and treats marketed for children are disgusting rubbish and that there will be a health price to pay in one way or another.

And I resent it that my children have to eat rubbish at parties to be sociable, when they'd be very happy to eat real food.

But mad frothing about sugar being poison just makes anyone who cares about healthy eating worry that they'll be tarred with the same brush.

OverMyDeadStuffedTurkey · 09/12/2007 20:21

slim - actually sugar (as in simple carbohydrate) is essential! Without it we'd be dead.

Maybe what you mean is that refined white sugar is nutritionally empty apart from calories?

Don't state 'facts' unless they really are facts.

TooTickyDoves · 09/12/2007 20:22

Don't really see why everybody is so cross with Spidermama...