Mothers buy chips to get around schools healthy eating

[Blandmum]

I have just heard in the radio that some mothesr have been boycoting a schools healthy food initiative.

They have been taking orders from the kids, going to the local chippy, and taking food trollys of junk food round to the children at lunch time.

Oh FFS!

Taking out of the equation those small numbers of children who have special needs issues with food, what the fuck do these women think that they are doing?

How do they think this will help the children or the school?

um...well redbull, its completely his choice as to whether he uses it or not. MB and Franny are giving feedback on how he can improve his posting so that people take him more seriously. He can listen or not, its up to him, its his loss if he doesn't.

It make sense to punctuate and spell properly because people will listen to you more. Badly punctuated posts in caps are hard to read. So often I don't. Don't have time or concentration. Like many posters, I am often MN while doing other things.

Its like having a conversation. You need to put emphasis in the correct place, if you just shout or mumble or speak in a monotone it will turn people off and they won't listen.

Oh and FWIW I object to being called a "lady", as I don't seem to have a coat of arms or a property with turrets, but I accept that thats probably a minority view.

MB as you say,"The way that I look at it, at least by providing a good meal at lunchtime the kids are getting some fruit and veg, protein and complex carbs as well as the shit they will eat leater."

Agree a lot with this sentiment.I try to give ds1 a healthy meal with lots of veg in the evening, and keep reminding him to choose a healthy meal at school, so at least it counterbalances the chippy's offerings. I can't see what more I can do, though could control things more if he had no need to take cash into school to pay for food.

Perhaps that is what everyone should be pushing for - take away the need for money, ban money at schoool full stop, so the kids can't use it to buy junk food on the way home.

strange how I understood what he wrote
I think slagging of someone's typing is unfair. better to try harder to understand what they are writing.

2shoes, I don't think anyone is slagging, thats the thing.

MN has over 1000 posts a day. Cod aside, I would say that the posts which are clearly read (ie they are refered back to later in the thread) are consistantly those that are well punctuated and easy to read and not in caps.

If you want to get people to listen, you have to make it as easy as possible for them. This is life. It is not an attack. It is advice. he can take it or not.

surely better to give someone a chance and answer there post rather than pull it apart because you don't like the way it is written

I think it is great that he supports his OH and child and comes on here to make his point which he obviously feels very strongly about.

I don't think MB was rude at all! She gently pointed out that his posts would be more readable with punctuation.

But she did read his post, and she did answer it. She just suggested that he use punctuation in future.

2shoes, I didn't slag off his writing.

I didn't say that because of his lack of punctuation he was bad, or that his posts were not reading.

I simply said that I found it hard to read.

Had I said 'I find your words hard to read and I think you are an idiot' that would be offensive. But I didn't write that, or even think it.

it did take me a very long time to read and understand his posts.

Look I can't spell. If anyone comments on one of my howlers, I can't get all huffy, I can't spell. To my memory the only time I ever complained when someone pulled me up on my spelling, it was because the infered that because of my poor spelling I was incapable of doing my job. Which I am not.

I made no adverse comments about redbill's dp at all. If they read anthing else into what I said, that is their doing, and not mine.

And I did comment on his posts, whichj is more than a lots of people did.

sorry, were not worth reading.

i wasn't directing it at mb she did answer his post
but at the other comments
I just think it would have been better if that had been over looked as it is obvious how strongly he feels

Oh for heaven's sake, MP, It's redbull, not redbill. Sheesh, can't you spell properly?

oh ar$e. I meant MB, not MP. LOL!

trouble is though, 2 shoes, if he posts and people can't read him, then his views will be overlooked.

And it honestly took me many minutes tio read his post and I can speed read. there are too many posts on mn now for most of us to have the time to sit and ponder.

That is why I posted what I did. I was then called rude and 'out of order' I am neither.

sd...LOl! Hoist by your own petard (or however it is spelled )

My point is that I don't get huffy, if someone points out my mistakes.

i just felt a bit sad that he had taken the time and trouble to come on here and got "told off"
I would be upset if that happened to my dh
anyway i have said my piece so back to the topic
(and MB i did choose you as my phone a friend on another thread)

RBF - what a great message! Just shows how some parents need support. I mean, obviously, in bringing up a kid with ADHD.

fwiw I found it difficult to understand those unpunctuated posts as well, but the gist of them appears to be that parents should not be told what their kids should eat.

Kids with SN aside, I totally disagree with that. MB has already made the point (several times I think, perhaps not on this thread only) that there comes a point where your choices about what you feed your children, impacts on the lives of all the other children in the class because of the bad behaviour caused by the ingredients in some junk food. And I'd like to add (if the point hasn't already been made on one of these threads) that if you choose to feed your kids junk, your choice will also have an impact on other taxpayers, when we all have to pick up the NHS bill for childhood diabetes and then later, long term ill health of these children.

Several times, people have already said that the dietary problems of children with SN are a totally separate issue.

This is a wind-up, right?

F*ck me rigid.

I think those who say that children (SN aside) should be able to make their own choices about food etc, should try teaching a class of children who have had crisps and pop for breakfast.

That'll soon change your minds, believe me.

Do you know what I do not get?

People keep saying things along the lines of "food is important but other things are more important."

Why is it this either - or situation? Why do people feel we have a choice between feeding kids decent food and proper funding for SN schools? I just don't get it.

A lot of it is down to respect for our kids from politicians. And that translates into both decent SN schools and decent food for them, not cheap hydrogenated shite with added coal by-products.

Also, it's very difficult to maintain the concentration levels of children who have had fatty stodge for lunch.

Exactly fillyjonk

children need parenting, seems obvious to me but unfortunately not to some! Part of the responsibility of parenting is NOT letting them have unnecessary choice - of course kids wd always choose sweets over a healthier alternative, but you don't have to, indeed shouldn't let them.

Tbh I think some parents are clueless, some have been badly brought up themselves and some are quite frankly too thick to know what to do.

Thanks you, greeny, I have a lovely image in my head now.

Am going back to write about lightning storms on saturn, i think....

And we mustn't forget that there are lots of behavioural problems fuelled by shitty food. My neighbor's son has ADD, and if he is given anything he shouldn't have, it can actually be quite frightening to see the affect that such foods have on him.