in thinking that breakfast clubs are for working parents

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and not for non-working parents who can't be bothered to organise breakfast for their dcs.

I have to admit that DP and I put our DDs into breakfast and after school club once so we could go to Alton Towers for the day

I think breakfast clubs are a great help to many parents, working or not. Surely it's better for a child to say get breakfast in that environment than none at home?

Oh, and since that one occasion, both DDs have pleaded with us to go again

Our school did a free breakfast club the week the SATS were done, and this was for the reason of talking things through with teachers, or having a laugh with mates. It was open to all year sixes, bar none. The usual breakfast club our school does has limited places and i presume is paid for, intended for WOHP and others who are struggling and/or might otherwise not get breakfast.

There is no breakfast club at ds's school, which he starts in Sept.
They have a fab after school club and holiday club, but no breakfast. They are looking into it.
I am gutted, because this could be very handy.
Plus ds BEGS to go to all such things. He loves going to nursery. And when we go on holiday, he BEGS to go to the kiddiclub activities that they hold , say for 2 hours in the afternoon.
Some kids apsolutley love all that, don't you know !!
Its not like all kids are dumped there becasue parents can't be bothered.

Godzilla, my daughter goes to a school in a poor area of one of the grottiest cities in the North. The breakfast club is open to all. It's run by the lunchtime staff, and it's free to all, though donations are welcome as they use that to replenish the games box throughout the year. The scheme is pretty much the same in approximately eighty percent of the primary school in the city. If it can work here, why not anywhere else?

I am a sahm and I wouldn't dream of putting my children in the breakfast club!
It is beyond lazy

I have no idea! I don't use the breakfast club - only one twin went during the SATS week, that was it, so i dunno how it's run. All i know is we are in so called deprived area (in North-East), and i assumed the lack of facilities was due to funding.
DTDs school is fairly disorganised so it could just be that!

Tinylady, what an obnoxious attitude.
I am assuming that you have plenty of grandparents, brothers and sisters and close friends and babysitters etc = a very good support network, available to you.

God forbid,you or you dh were ill, or needed some help.

If you read the whole thread there are plenty of rasons why both working and non working parents might want to use a breakfast club both on a regular and an occassional basis.

If you can get then to breakfast club, you can make a bowl of cereal.

You've totally missed the point tinylady. May of the kids here want to got breakfast club. In our case, ds chooses to have two breakfasts. Also other parents have pointed out that, skilled as they are, they haven't managed to master the skill of being in two places at once.

Who are you to judge?

Chooses to have two breakfasts? Nonsense
Why don't you just give him one large portion and let someone who needs the place have it?
You are allowed to say no to children occassionally you know

tinylady, are you being deliberatley offensive. Have you actually read the thread ?

Hve you read my posts?
If you did you would understand that I am staing my opinion, which I believe I am allowed to do

There are no restricitons on places at ds' Breakfast Club. It is open to all. He often has two bowls of cereal at home (as well as a glass of orange juice). He sometimes has a boiled egg and soldiers as well. He enjoys going. Why should I say no?

I do believe that sahp's should give their children breakfast at home.
It is part od learning good eating habits. Why do you find that offensive?

No Oblomov - I don't beleive that she has read the thread. That is the charitable conclusion.

Surely doctors and dentists appointments can be made any time in the school day. Why do they have to be made at the time one of your other dcs has to start school?

And isn't lunchtime enough for social reasons.

I think that your attitide is quite selfish PB.
WHY SHOULDN'T MY SON HAVE TWO BREAKFASTS?
because it is greedy
because a parent who works and actually
needs the place may not have one becuase you think it is imp for your son
to eat twice
Shame on you

HAVE YOU ACTUALLY READ WHAT I HAVE SAID? THERE ARE NO RESTRICTIONS ON PLACES!!!!!! (and I know I am shouting).

There is plenty of room for any child who wishes to go. You do not need to pre-book. They accept whoever arrives.

And BTW - as it happens - I do work full time!

I have read your posts Tinylady.
And you are of course entiteld to state your opinion.
But your opinion does not seem to have taken on board ANY of the reasonable reasons people have given throughout the thread.

I can back Prettybird up as we are also in Glasgow and our kids have a breakfast club with no restrictions. Our kids go to school on the bus and have to leave at 8am. They get up at 7, have breakfast by 7.30 and then it is a loooong time till 10.15 for break for them. The school realises this as almost all kids come on the bus, so the children are all admitted to the school through the canteen where the club is! They are encouraged to eat before they go out into the playground.

It is free for all pupils, as are school dinners for all in primary 1-3. And the food is good. My kids love it. It doesn't lengthen the school day for them as they have to get the bus anyway (unless we want to drive them - their school is a few miles away).

I shall also be using the after school club next academic year as I am studying and on 2 days have late seminars.

...and as for being selfish, I "pay" for it as part of my £2,600 p.a. council tax. I don't object to such a high council tax (which is not all Glasgow's fault - it is just that there are not many "big houses" in Glasgow as all the "posh" houses are in suburbs outside the city boundary) and I can afford it.

We (dh and I) also "give back" to the school by being heavily involved in the Parent Council.

Dh is also heavily involved in the running of the Out of School Club (after school, ie nothing to do with the Breakfast Club)- despite the fact that we could probably cope without it - but other parents couldn't. Without dh's involvement, the out of school club would have folded - gone bankrupt, as it was running at a loss.

Selfish? Don't judge.

Weegiemum - we are going to get a shock next year when we have to go back to finding £1.15 for lunch every day!

PB-Please don't judge me without reading all of y posts then.
My opinion was based on the OP, which asked the quaestion 'should breakfasts clubs be solely for working parents' to which I agreed

I am not judging you wthout having read all of your posts. However, you seem to have been somewhat selective in what you did read: saying shame on me for being selfsih and letting my ds have two breakasts and so "take" a place from a more deserving case - when in the same post I had explained that there were no restrictions on those that can go.