Mum takes 5 y/o out of school as he won't drink water!

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Anyone see this on GMTV this morning. A school in Yorkshire has introduced drinking water during the day (in lesson times), but this child won't drink water and his mum want him to be able to have jiuce instead. School has said no and so she has taken him out of school as a protest.

Is she being just a bit ott or do you think that it is acceptable for her to take him out, as she isnt getting her own way? Discuss!

Do private schools not have any rules then?

chopchopbusybusy - exactly! IME the rules seem even stricter at DD's private school than the state schools our friend's children go to.

Over reacting imo.

IME over the last few days at school - many parents like to complain and make a fuss about nothing - it's doing my head in tbh.

I know, I think I'll pull ds1 out of school because it's carrots at snack time today and he won't eat an unpeeled carrot. Whaddaya think?

Have only read the OP, and find this links in nicely with the thread about modern parenting creating a nation of spoilt brats.

This mum is teaching her son to go against the rules over a minor issue. She is teaching him how to get her own way.

You drink water or you drink nothing - your choice. Put up and shut up!

My dss' school introduced this water thing last year. At first ds did not like water, now he does.
I certainly would not have argued with the school about it.
(but then I am from a generation where we were raised to respect teachers/adults and do as we were told)

Agree she is a nobboid.

batters, ahem, are we talking Snakebite then?

batters!!!

it was only when i got to high school we were allowed water in lessons, but agree to it happening in primary too!

this woman is to quote oliveoil a 'nobboid'

that child is going to grow up not knowing how to stick to rules and shes gunna turn round and say 'it's not my fault!!'

"Because if they allow one child to bring in juice, then they have to allow all children to bring in juice, and then you will get the child who only drinks smoothies or milkshakes. Or you will then get the child who will only drink coke"

NOt to mention that sipping juice all day WILL have a detrimental affect on the teeth & then the school will be blamed.

Glad I kept you all talking ladies! You notice I posted and buggered off for the morning! OliveOil, we have very similar convos in our house - dd:'but whyyyyy?' me: Coz I'm the grown up and I'm in charge - end of!'

snort at Batters.

and Nobboid.

and LOL - there WILL be a case where a mother demands that her just-16 year-old be allowed to smake in class because he is of legal age to do so and it's his right, and it helps him concentrate.

Is the self-same nobboid who was stuffing chips through the fence, by any chance? or is there some new species developing in Yorkshire?

What sort of mother doesn't encourage their child to drink more water.

Ha, am enjoying this very cross Blu!

haven't read the whole thread just the start

oliveoil- 'nobboid'....great word

dd1's school allows a bottle of water on their desk at all times, I think it's great. dd1 has always drunk ALOT and she is very happy with it. She would prefer juice to water but wouldn't break a school rule if her life depended on it (wonder how long that will last lol)

I accidently gave her juice one day and she told the teacher and asked to be allowed to pour it down the sink and get some water...bless her

DS doesn't drink water very often...indulged juice fiend extraordinaire ...but I won't be relinquishing the place in the school he enjoys and is flourishing in so that he can sup organic Copella at £6k of our expense!

mine still insist on diluted fruit juice at home and claim not to "like water"

but will have water at playgroup

work that one out

No chips through school railings was in Rotherham blu. We're not all that bad in Yorkshire, you know, as hula will testify.

nobboid is mine

I did say that further down

but have claimed ownership from this day forth

She is utter nobboid who is probably far more interested in her 'rights' than the actual case in point.

Her son is not going to die from dehydration in 3 hours. He can still get a drink at lunch time.

She can give him all the juice she likes when he gets home. She is just pissed off that the school is telling her what she should be doing.

So she makes a nobboid fuss about it.

He son will have nobboid teeth if he gets to drink juice all day.

And if he gets his own way all the time will grow up to be a proto nobboid and have little nobs of his own

mb

we KNOW the type dont we

how that hunk of yours?

not too bad. V tired atm as he had first part of chemo round 5 yesterday. So he is having a kip.

He is well enough that I have spend the afternoon booking a summer holiday in scotalnd!

The local comp has recently been taken over by what sounds like a real twunt of a headteacher. Among his many twuntish regulations he has banned kids from using the water fountain between lessons - he stands over it to ensure no one does and apparently two kids fainted during last summer's hot weather as a result!