School stopping my child eating chocolate

hoyles10

Thinking about it I can't believe how far things have come in regards to this. It's not all that long ago when Manchester City's football in the community for kids scheme was sponsored by Waggon Wheels and the coaches used to get boxes by the dozen to hand out to the kids. Suppose they are sponsored by Granny Smith or something like that now.

And those waggon wheels haven't stopped a few of those kids being fit and healthy professional footballers

aytch

hoyles10 wrote: »

Thinking about it I can't believe how far things have come in regards to this. It's not all that long ago when Manchester City's football in the community for kids scheme was sponsored by Waggon Wheels and the coaches used to get boxes by the dozen to hand out to the kids. Suppose they are sponsored by Granny Smith or something like that now.

And those waggon wheels haven't stopped a few of those kids being fit and healthy professional footballers

Believe it or not McDonalds used to sponsor Healthy Schools - that made us choke on our double cheeseburgers at playtime (while children ate carrots obviously ... tee hee)

eyeinthesky

I can't believe what I am reading here! The Lunchbox police!! Surely it's the job of schools to educate our children, and nothing else? I see it as a parent's job to look after their children in all other ways, including diet and nutrition. If schools feel that parents are neglecting their children, then they can report it to social services, can't they?

When kids are leaving school, barely able to read and write, schools should be concentrating on their own shortcomings, and stop letting our kids down with the fundamentals of education.

aytch

eyeinthesky wrote: »

I can't believe what I am reading here! The Lunchbox police!! Surely it's the job of schools to educate our children, and nothing else? I see it as a parent's job to look after their children in all other ways, including diet and nutrition. If schools feel that parents are neglecting their children, then they can report it to social services, can't they?

When kids are leaving school, barely able to read and write, schools should be concentrating on their own shortcomings, and stop letting our kids down with the fundamentals of education.

Nope, social services will now only deal with schools if they submit paperwork in triplicate, and they deem it worth their while to become involved.

Our shortcomings are many, not saying no to the Government is the main one!

Off to write a policy on birds smashing nuts on the playground in a school that needs to be nut free to assist a child with a life threatening allergy - hope those birds can read and have not be let down by do-gooder, well meaning, educational fundamentalists :cool:

no.1swimmum

When my youngest son was still at junior school they started a healthy eating regime, where the head would walk around checking what the children with packed lunch were eating and removing anything he felt was unsuitable - you could have 1 treat i.e. a pack of crisps or a chocolate bar but not both. This was a very small church school so he could do this. My youngest son is very underweight for his height (quite tall) and was under the school nurse etc as the school was taking part in a healthy weight healthy child programme - well on two occassions I was actually told 'your son is emmaciatingly underweight'!!! he is not the best eater, due to a mouth problem when he was born that was not completely rectified until he was two, so could not eat solid foods etc. ~ this has not helped with him trying new things, but saying this he is fit and takes part in lots of out of school activities like swimming.

One day in particular the head removed a homemade chocolate muffin from my sons lunch because he had eaten a packet of crisps ~ my son did not tell me straight away and the school did not communicate with me at all - when I found out I was furious and straight up the school, I sat and waited to see the head, and boy did he regret my visit.I told him that I packed my sons lunch with what I knew he would eat etc etc - he started his speel about no chocolate - got him - the chocolate muffin did not have any chocolate in it only cocoa powder, too much sugar no made with honey in fact it was made following a recipe by an olympic swimmers mother and was made with cornmeal instead of flour, milk and no fat, cocoa powder and honey to sweeten - i offered the recipe to him for the school canteen as on the day he had thrown my sons muffin away they were serving chocolate cake and custard of giant smartie cookies for dessert. I got up to leave and turned to him ' and if you ever remove anything from my sons lunch again I will take matter to the local authority, governors and further, I am his parent and if I deem that it is OK for him to eat then it is - after all I am a qualified chef and therefore think that I am more informed that you are to know the contents of food'

He never did it again with my son although I know that he continued with other children

Alikay

eyeinthesky wrote: »

I can't believe what I am reading here! The Lunchbox police!! Surely it's the job of schools to educate our children, and nothing else? I see it as a parent's job to look after their children in all other ways, including diet and nutrition.

Fine in theory, until you get a few little horrors bouncing off the walls pumped up on blue pop and Tangfastics disrupting everyone's learning whilst the teacher is powerless to use any sanctions to rein in behaviour! Not to mention the theft and bullying which sweets in the playground have always generated.

Given the choice of foods available I can't imagine anyone would find it a problem to save chocolate for after school and stick with sandwiches, fruit and maybe a bit of plain cake for lunchboxes.

hoyles10

Maybe if the government brought in a scheme to educate kids on the dangers of knives rather than chocolate the country would be a nicer place.

wornoutmumoftwo

I wouldn't dare put chocolate in my children's lunch box - and yes, I'm one of the brainwashed parents. My children know what is and isn't allowed in lunch boxes and I'm happy to comply with the school.

I always pack a sandwich, fruit, yogurt and packet of crisps (meant to be walker light but I refuse to buy brand names).

I understand where this healthy eating thing comes from, and as a member of two school parents committee have had many an argument about healthy eating - way I see it, if you teach kids something is "bad" they'll just want it more. I believe they should be taught to eat "not so good for you" food in balance with healthy food - what I try to teach my children.

Oh, and I got it trouble once - for putting in one small mouth sized winnie the pooh GM free/ addictive free biscuit at the nursery - been ever so good since.

mumps

When my youngest two were at primary school we were told they could have kitkats but not twix as kitkats are biscuits and twix is confectionery. They came home for lunch and had what we eat. Mind you that was another argument as on their first day I was told by deputy head that they couldn't go home for lunch. They did.

Just to add my daughter was seriously under weight and doctors orders were to let her eat anything she wanted, if she wanted to eat just chocolate then that was fine with him. His view was to get some weight on her and worry about what she was eating when her weight was normal (like someone else on here she had problem with her jaw which meant it was difficult for her to feed as a baby and she never got the hang of recognising hunger so just didn't eat.)

MUMMYTO2BOYS

My 5 year old can't take anything sweet all week in his otherwise healthy lunchbox, yet if he has school dinners he can have something sweet every day.

Where's the sense in that?!?

I think they'd be far better educating parents who send their children with unhealthy food day in, day out than completely banning anything sweet for parents who give their children a healthy, balanced but enjoyable diet.

But as has been said, pick your battles, there's no chance with this one.




Oh, and why is Jamie Oliver such a podger?!?