to want to call the Daily Mail with this scoop?

[gramercy]

I can't believe this one.

Dd's school Christmas party today. "We're going to play the cutting up the chocolate game where you have to wear a scarf and gloves" she says. "Great - what fun!" I reply.

"I'm not doing it" states dd grumpily. "It's not going to be chocolate. It's going to be bananas."

Bananas??!! please don't tell me the school is now trying to sneak in a "five a day" or a "snack swap" theme into the end of term party.

That school... it's killing me.

Primary schools tend not to allow chocolate on premises - seems to me perfectly reasonable of them not to allow it in a game. I'd have thought of a different game, though.

Chocolate is akin to crack in schools these days.

I'm with Mrsmattie with the pass the parcel, It is so 'damn fair now, everyone has to get a turn and everyone has to have some treat. We used to be lucky if you got to open a layer, it meant that our 'holding on to the parcel slightly longer than necessary' skills were top notch though.

Children now, know they will all get a turn, lest they be upset and so don't have that competitive urge, so needed for pass the parcel.

Bloody hell QandA, that's made me think of musical chairs, how the fk do they deal with a child losing every time??

Probably give them a packet of organic raisens to make up for their loss of self esteem

With the 'everyone gets a prize' pass the parcel, I find that as soon as the child gets their sweets they stop playing, so you end up with 2 kids playing the game. Bit rubbish really.

Tell your DD to "accidently" stand on the bannana right at the start - game over.

WTF How to rip the joy out of it. Try really hard and you can have a slice of banana.... yay
That would have been crap for me. I can't eat bananas. They make me mouth burst out in unlcers and my tongue swells up. So , would I not get to play? Or would they have to give me a bar of chocolate?
Tell your DD to say she has a banana intollerence but Mum kindly sent me in with a kilo of dairy milk

"Primary schools tend not to allow chocolate on premises"

not so, in the case of the school my boys go to. They both came home with a Cadbury's selection pack today - from school!

Also not so in the case of the school I teach at (secondary) - we have even been known to play the knife-and-fork game (with real chocolate, knives and all).

i used to love this game!

Can anyone think of a 'good' alternative for chocolate, DD2 can't have it (makes her stupedously ill) but i know she'd love the game.

Big square of flapjack?

A banana?

a frozen banana!!!! now that might work!

actually thinking about a frozen tube yogurt would work well.

I wouldn't fancy the chances of their teeth surviving frozen banana/yog

i remember that game! you have to use a big bar of dairy milk - a banana is madness!!!