The water only rules. No juice.

[OnlyWantsOne]

It's there for a reason. Isn't it?

So why do some parents still send juice in bottles concealed as water for their children?

One child in my dd's class has juice. Every day. Her mother won't MAKE her have water because she doesn't feel she should have to.

Except dd and one other child I know of have been whining how it's not fair - how they want juice too etc etc etc and I've had enough.

Didn't want to post in AIBU but needed to vent.

and how many days of the week do you go from 08.30 until 12.00 without a drink? and ten again until 4.00 pm?

Not many now, but I did throughout all my schooldays (I didn't drink the morning break milk). There was water at lunch. I don't remember it being a problem.

But, as the parent of a DD who had problems due to not drinking enough, I'm glad they allow water in schools now; and there should indeed be special dispensation for other drinks in cases like silverfrogs.

The child in the OPs case -or rather the parents - are out of order though if the child actually will drink water and there's no medical problem.

We are only allowed clear see through bottles so there's no hiding anything that's not water. Apparently there was an incident with a drinks bottle containing calpol

One of my DC is also a juice/squash refuser - it's complicated innit

Most schools run from around 9 till 10.30ish and then have a break, and then til around lunch. Then from 1ish to around 2 when the infants have a break, then it's 3.30ish for the end of school.
There is water available, and those hours hardly sound like a Siberian gulag.
When I was at school, and when I first started teaching, the children drank in their breaktimes and at lunch. All managed, sn and medical exemptions exempted.

I wouldn't drink plain water as a child either, the hydration is the important crux of the matter, schools should allow children to drink what they want and eat what they want it's not fucking prison.

As a teacher, I wish it really wasn't part of my brief to bother about lunches and non-alcoholic beverages. I don't give a stuff if their teeth fall out and they weigh 16 stone, they are not my children. That's parenting issues in my opinion.

Silver frog- she must have spent a lot of time in hospital on a drip, poor thing.

If you let them have squash or juice, people will be saying "well, why not Coke?"

I do get pissed off by this "hydration" thing. Pure marketing. If a child has a drink at breakfast, it's only a couple of hours max til break, then another couple of hours max til lunch. And they are allowed water between times. They are not going to need to be "hydrated" any more than that. it's all a bloody triumph for the companies that make bottled drinks.

We went through a stage with our kids struggling with packed lunches because we refused to put junk in them even though there are school rules few follow them. It got so bad I tried to change my kids thinking so that they realised it was special to have good stuff. I packed up the lunch boxes and added "please don't tell your friends that I've made all this healthy food for you because they might not be so lucky."..... I suppose there is a truth in it because it does take a lot of effort to feed a family well..... Might get shot down for suggesting this to my kids but I did get totally fed up about hearing they weren't the lucky ones....

our school ask for water only, but having had dd come home from reception with a full untouched water bottle every day and being told they have to make her sit down as she gets over heated and dehydrated as she will not drink water alone she is now allowed to take flavored water, i honestly cant see what the problem is she would of drank squash or juice if she was at home

We've allowed children to have squash due to genuine medical reasons, I was talking about those who don't. Of course a child's health is the most important thing however as the pp said we survived not drinking throughout lesson. Also children are allowed squash at lunch in our school.

p.s I don't think they drink enough water at school sometimes. Winter seems worse because school seems very hot and kids don't always take off layers and put them on for outside.....

When did Ribena become poison?

Good God, does it really matter if a child has a teaspoon full of squash added to their water? What a fuss about nothing. And funny how the teachers who don't have time to help with shoelaces or toilets or even listen to reading have time to go through 30 bottles to check the contents.

When all their baby teeth fell out, I guess

fuck me I must have posted in AIBU by mistake

it does matter when parents encourage / allow their child to not follow rules and make their child "special" from every other child in the class.... THAT does matter

if you dont care if your kid is over weight and has tooth decay, fine,.... but seriously?

Gwendoline, teachers don't "go through 30 bottles" - they have to trust parents stick to the rules. But if you think for one moment every child can't tell you exactly what every other child in the class has in their bottle, you don't know children very well.

Yes, they do rat each other out, but then as a teacher you have the choice of pouring out the squash and refilling the bottle with water or ignoring it. One pisses off the parent and the child, the other fills the children with resentment and pretty much all of them will start bending the rules if you aren't fair.
So you confiscate the bottle, offer water and brace yourself for yet another ranty encounter with yet another bloody parent who wants someone to feel offended by.
I'd rather they went and yelled at someone who could change policy.

I'm not talking about the parents flouting the rules. I'm asking why the rule is there in the first place.

And a teacher (I assume) up thread said she checks.

seeker, no thankfully she didn't.

mostly because I spent an inordinate amount of time each day cooking and preparing (and supporting her to eat) a diet that helped.

but not a single drop of liquid passed her lips voluntarily. at one point, when we needed a urine sample for a test (not actually to do with her drinking issue) I spent 6 hours getting enough water into her to ensure she would need the toilet before bedtime. it was hell.

and so right now, I dont care if she never drinks water in her life - drinking is good enough for me. she takes diluted (very diluted) fruit juice to school each day. on good days, she now drinks nearly 750ml. on bad days, still only about 100ml.and that is after about 4 years (daily) work on the issue.

Do all the adults on this thread drink nothing but water? I doubt it.

Oh yes thank goodness for being able to afford to pay to do completely as you like

Yup.

The head of one school I taught at extolled the virtues of Hydration for Learning. With a straight face.

Did she like Brain Gym too?

Oh yes.

And he's still there.