To think that milky coffee and chocolate biscuits are a vile breakfast for your children ranging from 4-10

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Obviously IABU for reading that's life in the Dr's surgery

But seriously, this story, about something totally unrelated to the children's diets began with the mother lining up milky coffee and chocolate biscuits for her children aged 4-10.

Not as a special occasion, as their standard breakfast.

Surely no one is that poor or that thick that they really can't come up with something better than that.

The woman has 10 kids now, god knows how they all get fed.

Thats my favorite ever breakfast.

Only if they are chocolate hobnobs, surely?

At least they get breakfast? maybe?

Don't give it a second thought. They make stuff up about people to set the scene and make it seem realistic.

She probably feeds her children wholegrain, low salt, low sugar cereal but if you read that about the kind of riff-raff who appear in That's Life you wouldn't believe it, would you now?

chocolate digestives

Hobnobs have evil oaty things in them.

I can only think it's because she just can't be arsed to get them anything else. If she's got 10 children you'd think some are old enough be able to pour themselves some cereal or something?

They must be starving by lunchtime poor things.

Have you put on your flame proof suit for any particular reason??

I read that story yesterday and had to re-read that bit as I couldn't believe anyone would think that such a thing was normal!

Apart from that ridiculous first paragraph introducing their 'breakfast' routine I found the whole story utterly shocking. I gave it to DH to read and it made him really cross too.

I am v heavily pregnant spending lots of time in bed so am reading a lot of junk at the moment

I'm crestfallen that the good people of That's Life may have made that up.

I was enjoying my moral highground hugely.

It is quite a standard breakfast in other countries. Caffe latte and biscuits (biscuits aren't necessarily worse than cereals!).
It depends on what the diet is like for the rest of the day.

UEs in France breakfast can be milky coffee with croissants dipped in!

Oh I would judge a breakfast of sugar puffs too, don't worry about that.

yes franca that is tue

My niece and nephew regularly had pannettone and or biscuits for breakfast and frequently nothing. Milky coffee or tea (their english influence coming out) was something they drank from quite a young age too

It doesn't seem to have harmed my niece and nephew who are now 19 and 17 years old respectively and who are both slim, fit and healthy.

Caffe latte and biscuits are an entirely normal breakfast for Italian children. How is it any worse than coco pops or other vile sugary cereal, or toast and jam/nutella.

Unless you are making your children egg white omelettes with home baked multigrain bread or some other "healthy" shite every morning, yabvu, and needlessly judgemental.

Are most of Europe poor and/or thick? Please do enlighten us as to what you think is a good breakfast......

Biscuits probably have less sugar in them then sugar puffs/coco pops etc. We have to save this rubbish for the weekends, there's no healthy cereal aimed at children which I find odd, why do bran flakes/muesli/oats not have cartoon characters on the front of them or free childrens books?

i dont think i would give coffee to a 4 yr old @ any time of the day personally!!

DS is 4 and likes the odd cup of tea but I wouldn't give him coffee. My friend gives her 2 boys decaffinated coffee occasionally.

Ds is 10 and has never had a coffee, his gran however, has allowed him to drink tea!

I used to know a young girl,well younger than me at the time; she was about 10, I was 14ish. Her Mum had a sweet shop and the poor kid had a Mars bar for breakfast on her way to the bus stop. The poor sod had terrible acne and was quite a lot over weight she was so lovely.
I can't imagine why some people can't/don't/won't look after their kids...

No worse than the crap my ds has choco wheaty hoops and the like, imo. Or indeed toast and jam. I suppose it depends a bit on the type of biscuits. All those transfats and whatnot.

Fluffy, I give my children tea, but it is decaff. Ds has had coffee, but not when I'm around and he always gets a telling off about it.

I give Ds weetabix(well the cheap version)for breakfast on school days; it's what I had as a child and still do when at work(for ease of eating under tight time constraints), but Dd will only eat wholegrain boulders which have honey on them...I don't like it but it's that or nothing.

Whats wrong with children drinking tea?

I hate tea (bleugh). We used to drink massive amounts as children (as in the kettle was constantly on).

Tea messes about with a child's iron absorption IIRC, there are also certain brands (don't ask me what) that have trace levels of aluminimum aswell, it's not good for growing brains.

Only up to the age of 2 Fluffy(the iron thing).

Sounds lovely to me! Definitely not vile.

But possibly not all that healthy on a regular basis.

Really? You mean I've been denying ds coffee for no reason?