Bloody handing out of sweets at school on birthdays. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[LynetteScavo]

DD has finished her tantrum now.

Caused by DS2 being handed a crappy bag of sweets by his teacher as he came out of school.She wanted some. DS gave her one. She was tired from nursery, wanted more, DS said no. Que tantrum.

I didn't particularly want either of them to have them.

I tried tackling this with the school with when DS1 was in reception, and was basically laughed at.

Rant over.

The dc school has banned that now (not that is was common pratice anyway).

Fruit or nothing apparently. Ask them about their Healthy Eating policy.

I'm going to hand these out on DSs birthday as my revenge.

oh that would make me so angry. DS' nursery give them chocolate buttons at Easter and Christmas, but they give them to us discreetly, and we get to choose whether to give them to our DCs, and when.

Much more sensible.

Or I might hand out one of these each

I hate this tradition too, my DCs (Y2 and Y4 and nursery) have allergies and feel excluded regularly. It seems to happen about once a week. One kid brings in a whole bag full of sweets (like 4-5 mini items/haribo bags) for each member of the class! for christmas and easter as well as his bday!

trouble is, you then feel mean when your kids dont do the same and their classmates expect something!

The handing out of sweets seems to happen less often from yr 3 thankfully although there have been a few occasions where children have handed out sweets when they've got back from a (term-time) holiday .

Why?

On ds's first day in reception a couple of weeks ago he came out with a mini bag of haribo. I don't know whether the teachers handed them out or whether it was from a couple of girls who had a party a few days before.

you're definitely not in rural Scotland.

it's done here.

long live fun traditions like this!

i came from a place full of miserable people who do nowt but complain, i'm so glad i don't have to go there anymore.

I have to say it's done here and it's never bothered me tbh, although I daresay I would feel differently about it if my children had allergies.

It's the gelatin too - my friends children don't' eat gelatin so they can't have harbo, etc.

TBH, don't mind so much if the sweets are in the book bag; it's DD seeing them and wanting them too that annoys me.

With DS1 it was the lollipops; he would sit there all evening sucking them.

I'm not anti sugar, or even anti sweets altogether, but I do think there is a time and a place.#

Maybe it's because I'm a control freak that I get so annoyed about it.

it's a small thing in the grand scheme of things, though.

i usually keep some chuppa chups in the glovebox and snacks in the car anyhow, because it's a money saving thing.

God I just can't get excited about this.

It's a few flippin sweets FGS.

not a problem with me. My dc love it when they come out with treats. It wont kill them.

hmmm chuppa chups - love the cola ones

Everyone does it at my dc's primary up to Y6, even the teachers on their b/days

Even happens at my dd's secondary

It is fab.

Never heard anyone complain, even those with allergies.

they've banned it at our school under heslthy eating policy too

Agree with Gobbledigook.

I'm a control freak.

I was too tired to deal with a tantrum today.

SO KEEP YOUR HARIBO & CHUPPA CHUPPS TO YOURSELVES! Or I will have my revenge!

chuppa chups dirt cheap in a pound shop in town.

i remember how precious a little treat was to me when i was a kid - how we used to love to go and see elderly aunties and relatives who had a bowl of sweets on the coffee table or gumdrop trees at Xmas.

so always have a little bag of stuff in the boot - the usual small boxes of raisins and Carr's or oatcake bites and cartons of juice.

that way, if DD1 comes home with a sweetie and the other starts kicking off, out come the chuppa chups.

i quite like them myself.

DS2 will be taking a big bag of sweets next Friday for his Birthday! My DC love it when they get something from their friends.

Dont be so miserable, a couple of sweets now and again.
Lighten Up!

oh, you should see the haul they come out with from nursery school on Halloween around here!

they wear costumes and bring treat buckets and all the parents send in bags of sweets for the wee ones to pass out.

then it's up to Mummy to eat covertly dole out the sweets in a timely fashion.

Mine share them, they just hand over half as soon as they see their DB. No problem - they don't even have to be told. They seem to know that what goes around, comes around

Extreme Healthy Eating Diktat

Now, you see I wouldn't have a problem if they were handing out mini bars of Green and Blacks......