School stopping my child eating chocolate

iamana1ias

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

Which questions did I ignore? lets hope you dont have any 'little darlings' at all, eh!

I won't be - I was sterilised in my early 20s. Working with the little sods is punishment enough.

iamana1ias

iamana1ias wrote: »

eh? it wasn't a rant :rotfl:

Are you telling me that cake in any form is healthy? Do you think that qualified chefs know anything about healthy eating or nutrition? Have you ever been in a professional kitchen?! Do you have any idea how much salt chefs use?!

I didn't say that sweeteners or additives are a good thing :rolleyes: how is it appropriate to give a child food designed for an athlete? Should said child have a protein shake in the morning?

It's highly unlikely that kids will burn off the amount of sugars, natural or not, being fed to them. Where do you think the increase in childhood type 2 diabetes is coming from? The kid didn't need the muffin, or the crisps. Why couldn't it have a banana instead?

there are at least 6 questions here that you ignored

Lifeisbutadream

Are you telling me that cake in any form is healthy? Do you think that qualified chefs know anything about healthy eating or nutrition? Have you ever been in a professional kitchen?! Do you have any idea how much salt chefs use?!

Do you only ever eat food that is 'healthy'? Some foods are healthier than others - at what level of 'healthiness' should we remove from all children? Would a child be OK with, say a Peach, but would we draw the line at an Apple?

http://nutrition.about.com/od/askyournutritionist/f/hi_sugar.htm

I would say most chefs know quite a lot about healthy eating and/or nutrition, yes.

Yes.

As I said, I dont care how much salt a chef uses - we arent talking about chefs we were talking about a home made muffin, which is likely to not have much salt in it.

I didn't say that sweeteners or additives are a good thing :rolleyes: how is it appropriate to give a child food designed for an athlete? Should said child have a protein shake in the morning?

Who cares? the child ate a homemade muffin that a headteacher removed because he deemed it 'unhealthy' - do you seriously think that is acceptable and that we should allow teachers to decide what is healthy or not? should we invite them to dinner each night and get them to scrutinise everything before we serve it?

It's highly unlikely that kids will burn off the amount of sugars, natural or not, being fed to them. Where do you think the increase in childhood type 2 diabetes is coming from? The kid didn't need the muffin, or the crisps. Why couldn't it have a banana instead?

No the kid didnt need the muffin, you are right, dammit. I am a !!!!!! parent and I cant believe that I have the cheek to think anything other than that. I will immediately phone Social Services and report myself for allowing my kids to make and (shock horror!:eek:) eat some chocolate krispies today.

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Lifeisbutadream

iamana1ias wrote: »

I won't be - I was sterilised in my early 20s. Working with the little sods is punishment enough.

Maybe you ought to re-think your career. Poor kids having you dictating to them!

portlandboy

Um...? Money-saving...? Seems like you both need your heads banging together. And you worry about the "kids"!!!

Lifeisbutadream

portlandboy wrote: »

Um...? Money-saving...? Seems like you both need your heads banging together. And you worry about the "kids"!!!

Do you post those sort of comments in every thread which aren't discussing money saving

hob

my sister used to send her kids to school with a packed lunch of - can of pop , sweets or/and choclate and a ham sandwich. the school has now baned that so of thing. now its water fruit and ham sandwich. there are a lot of perents who fill up lunch box's with junk! i know there are perents who know what the word treat means but i have seen worse then what my sister used to send her kids with. yes before anyone ask's her kids get pizza and chips ect at home all of the time but at least ,thanks to the school , they get some helthy things now.

i know i cant spell at all so if someone wants to rewrite that i dont mind

hob

oh and i should of said i think some schoola are taking it to far! they know witch kids are getting 'good' things most of the time, and should be more relaxed. but i guess what is a treat to one kid is a meal to another. maybe waiting till outside of school hours is not such a bad thing.
early in this post someone said they worked in a school where they found a lunch box of a just a can of pop and a choclate bar. i wonder what that kids eating now?has to be better right?

princess_lou

I hope this doesnt come across the wrong way, but alot of threads are ending up in an arguement.. It seems to get personal after a while. For example it starts of by people having a difference of opinion, then turns into a debate( which i get totally-always up for a bit of a debate:p) then gets personal...' I hope ur kids arent like u, got their dads genes blah blah blah' OR woteva everyone else wrote who was taking part in the bickering... 'glad i dnt eat in ur kitchen' etc etc etc Grammer Corrections??!! Whats that about?
Im sure the OP just wanted peoples opinions- and its ended in a fight all over A CHOCOLATE BAR!!! seriously?:rolleyes:
Its such a shame to me, and it just goes to confirm a thread about bullying on the site over in OldStyle.. Guess What? It ended just like this one:cool:


Lou x

lolly1981

i do think its silly that the school removed or have banned chocolate bars...so long as that isnt all the child eats is it really a bad thing.
my son has limited chocolate, sweets etc but occasionaly he will take one in his lunch box...his usual lunch consists of a sandwich (ham, cheese or jam) a apple or other easy to eat fruit..grapes..homemade plain popcorn...raisins..yougurt and sometimes go ahead bars/jaffa cake bar/a cake ive made etc but that isnt everyday.
to be honest i think i would take offence to a teacher removing the said occasional items because it suggests that i am unable to understand a healthy balanced diet...and thats just what it is a healthy balanced diet with the occasional sweet treat.
i am his mother and feel it is upto me decide that he can have that not the school.
but saying that not everyone has that same opionion..i.e the can of pop and a choclate bar!...i think schools should maybe help to concentrate on educating parents about healthy eating not dictating luchboxes (our school runs a cooking course and we are learning about balanced diets etc)
and for the person who said about sweets and choclate shouldnt be used as a treat what about taking them on a trip spending time with them etc..when my son isnt at school he is with me...we take day trips at the weekend and the 'treats' that he take to school are usually things that we have made together at home.