to think that my DSs should be allowed to eat what I give them at breaktime?

[lonelymom]

My DSs school seems to have an unwritten rule that they are ONLY allowed fruit at breaktime. Problem is one of my DSs only eats bananas unsupervised. Any other fruit and I have to stand over him saying 'Git it down yer throat NOW!'. Anyway as his bananas have been coming home uneaten and bashed (even though he has a 'bananaguard' being the height of coolness that he is) I started to give him 'schoolbars' and apple crisps but he is coming home saying that his teacher will not let him eat them and he has to put them back in his bag . Now come on - these are a form of fruit , they contain lots of fruit anyway. I am furious about the apple crisps as these are essentially dried apple slices dipped in lemon juice. I have spoken to his teacher about this a few times and she has said that it's OK so I don't know what the hells going on. This nanny state we live in makes me bloody angry. I am a grown adult who should be able to decide what my kid eats!! If I want to give him a Mars Bar, I should be able to, fgs. By the way, my other DS (in a different class) gets to eat his.

expat....

gosh, didn't realise you were 35 weeks already....wow....
saw a girl today who 3 weeks ago had her 3rd dd and she had just pinged back....but she had a tiny bump and is just that naturally modelbody build...very tall and slim....but I was so

my bump's not too bad, but then, i have a small torso.

i am only pregnant in front, though, and i think i'll wind up thinner than i was before i was pregnant after having this one.

he made me very sick for the first 5 months, so i didn't eat so much.

then he started to take up my entire torso, making me feel nauseated and constantly full, so i haven't been eating for Scotland.

also very bad acid reflux.

both girls are built like their father's mother's side of the family - tall and skinny with long legs.

DD1 is age 5 and she's 4ft., 2.5in. and getting growing pains, with long, narrow feet that are currently too big for her giraffe legs. still well under 3st.

so it's still full fat milk around here and Mummy's cakes and biscuits are all made with real butter.

oh yes...then you just gotta feed them anything....lol....

at you being smaller b the end of pg then before...speaking as someone always fighting with their weight....

so, it's a little boy this time....you gonna spill the beans about the name?

We weren't allowed to eat anything at break at primary school. I used to have a small chocolate bar & crisps every day at school and I'm not and never have been obese, but then we didn't have computer games & ran around a lot more.

I think it's a lot easier to have one rule for everyone because otherwise it'll be a lot harder for them to control. There must be something which is easy to eat & which he likes? Do his friends eat their fruit ok?

his name will be Struan.

my guts have been an absolute MESS this entire pregnancy - throwing up, feeling full, nauseated, reflux.

so i'm looking forward to being able to eat an actual meal after he's born!

right now i'm often terribly hungry, but whatever i eat just makes me sick.

i cannot eat in the evenings at all or i'll not be able to sleep for feeling like i'm going to puke.

it's not a nice feeling.

oh that does sound aful expat.....like the name...unusual, without being weird and also strong without being harsh....

it is a Scottish boy's name for a Scottish boy.

What is wrong with you people? No one is defending the right to feed our children sugar and fat all teh time. You are force-feeding words into our mouths. Well, into Mrs H's because I tried to bow out of this a long time ago.

And as for Norma's slightly patronising remarks about MrsH's dc starting school, mine have been at school a long time and I still agree with her.

One of the problems with the UK is this rigid divisiveness about food.
Healthy snacks = fruit
Any other snack = fruit shoot and mars bar.

That is why I find this whole view of "healthy snacks" to be unhealthy.

pointy....it is not like that though....but uk does have some catching up to do about healthy eating....then info is all there and utilized in media...but people like to rebel...
and honestly noone is done a favour with that...
no one says Mrs H should never feed her child unhealthy food or somehting...it is more that., in school it is a good idea to have healthy food, so the brain works at it;s best and e-numbers are avoided.....
I feed my Kids rubbish at time, sometimes more then I should, however, I don't see it a problem to keep healthy options for school....
why is that such a problem....is it purely the ("no one tells me what to do with my Kids" attitude...but then, is that attitude always a helthy one?Should we maybe all look away when a Kid is getting obviously abused because that parent decides that that is what they think is right for their Kid and family....surely the answer will be a big resounding "NO"...therefore rules are necessary , because honest british people can't keep to unwritten rules or just suggestions, they think those are permits to go against it, a rule is to be briken , saldy...so, really, for a country that is known to queue up at bustops, brits really don't like to conform, lol....

if people all had commonsense, then there would be no need for laws, rules or anything, because people would live beside eachother and looking out for each other...respecting eachothers needs...but we don't live in utopia and sadl most people try to dodge anything and education, no matter how widespread, seems to go past them, or they ignore it....
honestly, there are plenty of programmes that explain so well about nutrition but people don't want to think further....so, rules are necessary until people do the responsible think without rules....

Fruit is not the only Healthy Food!

That is the main point we are making that is continually being ignored.

MrsH and I are not hell-bent on feeding our children unhealthy food.

I do not consider a muffin unhealthy. I do not consider sticks of cheese unhealthy. I do not consider flapjack unhealthy. I do not consider oat cakes and honey unhealthy.I do not consider nuts and raisins unhealthy. And - strike me down with a lightning bolt - I do not consider a krispie cake or kit-kat unhealthy.

And you are right that British people - big generalisation, I know - will rebel. But this extreme definition of healthy food will only make many more people determined to rebel.

but pointy...thos4e4 people that put a kitkat bar and a bag of crisp into the lunchbox are usually also the ones that will feed the smae for breaky and tea....because the british diet is kinda weird....
sorry...
of course nothing in a reasonable amount will really harm....but why make that point in school....a muffin can be healthy if homebaked wih the right flour and healthy faTS, ETC. but it can be equally unhealthy if the mas produced kind pure double/triple choloate, cheese, in reasonable amoutns great and are always encouraged as part of lunch....flapjacks...again, depends on recipe, but tbh, th ones I have are all seriously yummy but unhealthy with lots of syrup ....and most foods loose their good quality once cokwed...like coked veg fruit will have lost most nutrtion and the hotter it ewas prepared the less nutrtional vakue will be left....
thing is...if school allows cake people will nto think wholemeal homebak cake, they will get highly processed cake....that si why these rules have to be....sorry...

"thos4e4 people that put a kitkat bar and a bag of crisp into the lunchbox are usually also the ones that will feed the smae for breaky and tea"

Really? Do you know them all?

well...I kinda do know a lot...look where I live and it will all make sense....

[anyone want a battered deepfired marsbar}

deepfried even

do you live in a fish and chip shop?

Many schools are now accedited for being a "healthy Eating" school.

Our school has a policy for fresh fruit only (no packets allowed) Obviously some fruit is taken in containers (grapes, berries, sliced apple slices etc) maybe you could try that.

it really has become such an issue in some schools/areas that rules like this had to be created.

nope, live in corby...scottish capital in england, lol....honestly, thre is some seriously bad eating habits about here...there are things I never even knew about before moving here...

I htink people that don't understand why these rules were created need to open their eyes and may should volunteer in deprived areas and all will come clear...because for a lot of people it will be difficult to undertsand just how, in an informed age as it is, there is still the possibility that a child could grow up ne ver having tasteed a piece of fresh fruit or vegetable all thier childhood...I am NOT generalising....I really am NOT

I'm a teacher, rant. Have worked in a variety of schools. My eyes are open.

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I am surprised you are speaking as a teacher pointy, sorry....