Dd 11 has just moved schools. There is a sweet shop close by and she and friends go in mornings before school. I'm not happy with her buying sweets first thing in morning - but am trying to allow her to make sensible choices (both budgeting and healthy lifestyle). She has a debit card so we could monitor amount spent.
Someone suggested that she just doesn't get a treat in her lunchbox that day which I thought was good and probably what will happen.
I think I'm mostly concerned about the habit it may encourage though. The school-uniformed energy drink brigade seems to be growing - it's all I see at bus stops in the mornings - and I don't want my DD making those choices. She already asks for sugary snacks too often and isn't particularly inclined to sports.
Just wondering how anyone else is managing this?