to think that if you're a kids' party organiser you should know....

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that it's a very bad idea to give out chewy sweets to 5 year olds, tell them to go ahead and eat them and then have them do a jumping up and down game at the same time!

She also put the sweet prize tin right next to hot lights and told the children to help themselves at the end of a game.

AIBU to think that a bit more attention to health and safety might be in order if you are running partys for small children?

(Not my party btw, and was very glad that I'd stayed instead of dropping and leaving)

Did she give them lollipops and tell them to run around too?

Yep. I confiscated offered to look after the lolly my DS was given.

Oooh - I'm now trying to guess what was the prize in pass the parcel......

I wouldn't have thought twice about any possible 'health and safety' issues

Was the parcel prize a box of matches? or a bread knife?!

or was it a snappy purse which could have seriously bruised small fingers

YANBU, I was at our local soft-play earlier, (the one which serves cold beer, Redbull and draft wine) and noticed several little children with lollipops sticking out of their mouths jumping on the play equipment.

It also sells huge bags of boiled sweets. No safety guidelines at all. As long as the crappiness has been purchased from the centre anything goes.

Actually it always baffles me when I see children who look as if they could really do with a good runaround spending most of their paid-for time eating and drinking shite.

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she didn't want them to have.......................................fun!

Oops I have obviously misunderstood this thread. Ignore ignore ignore my post.

No, i didn't want them to choke or get burnt.

II don't mind stuffing children full of sweets at parties and then running them till they drop but not at the same time.

Sorry ninky, should have been clearer! It's not the crap i'm objecting to it's the possible choking/general lack of control by the party organiser (paid to do the job, not the birthday boy's mum)

I do see your point about choking. I speak as someone who had a major scare when a jelly sweet wrapped itself around my tonsils, (don't laugh MNers!) as a child.

So I still disagree with giving children sweets when they're going to run about. When I was teaching, the "bus" children were not allowed to eat treaty things until they had alighted. Sensible IMO.

I definitely disagree with children running around with sweets in their mouths.

If somebody in my ds's class has a birthday, my ds will normally come out with a lollipop, expecting to eat it on the way home. He rides his scooter there and back though, so I always say no, put it in my bag and give it to him once we're home.

I have seen parents look at me strangely before as nobody else seems to do this! I'd far rather be safe than sorry, especially considering the steep hills he has to scoot down!

I think YABU and a little OTT

When my nephew was 4 he choked on a boiled sweet he was eating while jumping on a trampoline. My step dad held him upside down and smacked him on the back, he was already blue when it came out. Thankfully he was fine, my step dad is a doctor so he knew what he was doing. Now he sits down to eat sweets.