Would you care if a teacher/child gave your child sweets at school?

Question

I was wondering if any parents forbid their children from eating sweets at school during birthdays or other school parties? Do you know of any that do? Do you tell the teacher not to let them eat it? Diabetic children exclused of course.

Funny this kind of thing was unheard of when I was child. Is a cookie or a cupcake one in a while really going to hurt a child. Why not have them go out for recess to burn it off?

I wonder if any of those parents throw the sweets away or eat them themselves, poor children!!!

Answer 1

omg no. my kids daycare constantly send them home with candy for having good days. i dont care, i dont care if they have a cookie either. it would have been awful to be the only kid in class who couldnt have a cupcake on someones birthday. i little sweets never hurt anyone (note i said A LITTLE)

i have a friend who does not allow her dughter to have anything sweet. soda, cake, cookie, candy. even when she comes over for my kids birthday's shes only allowed cake with no icing...i've asked her why and she has no reason. and it surely not so she doesnt get hyper or stay up late because she already is hyper and doesnt go to be until around 11pm

let kids live a little.

Answer 2

I have no problem with my daughter (age 5 )eating sweets at school occasionally. The teacher is not allowed to give out sweets as reward or anything like that and they are discouraged from bringing those types of things to school altogether. There is the odd exception like, they are having a dress-up day with everyone bringing a plate of food on friday and I'm sure there won't just be healthy food there. There has been the odd cake for a birthday and thats fine too. birthday parties out of school is an exception as well and i'm fine with some junk being eaten there too. She doesn't have a real sweet tooth and hates chocolate so I never worry about her stuffing her face full of sweets. She loves savoury foods.

If I offered her a lollipop or a punnet of cherry tomatoes she would have a hard time choosing as she loves things like tomatoes, cheese, salads sandwiches

I make sure she eats healthy food everyday normally, we pack her lunch for school everyday (we live in AUS so there isn't a cafeteria like thing here) and at home she drinks water or milk only (occasionally juice) and eats very well

They are taught from a really early age here now about healthy eating. she actually said to me the other day something about looking fat and stuck out her tummy and I started to think that maybe they are drilling it in too much that people should be skinny. I don't want her to get a complex about food and turn anorexic or something when she is older.

Answer 3

Sweets are banned altogether at my children's school. If it's a birthday, the sweets are handed out as the children leave the classroom so the parents can decide whether or not they are allowed to eat them.

Edit: it's not once in a while that hurts, it's the kids who would have them every day as a major part of their diet. There's no way a teacher can police that, much easier and healthier for everyone to have a hard and fast rule.

Answer 4

Don't really care if mine have it. They only get lollies at parties and do so much running and sport they can have the occasional treat at school. Last years teacher did "lolly maths" and they would use lollies to do maths. they may eat a couple along the way but boy did they all learn. I would hear how many "redskins (long lollies)" a teacher was and they had so much fun. All the kids wanted to be in her class and do lolly maths. Want a kid to learn out of 10 lollies in the hat and i pull out 4, how many left gets an M&M. boy they can get that number fast. They actually didn't eat many but just played with them and learnt fast. It was amazing how well it worked.
then there was the week a teacher in a higher grade gave my daughter 3 lollies everyday for helping him. she loves that teacher as she associates him not with lollies but appreciating her help. Yes there are better ways to reward kids but a couple of lollies are run off at recess and mine only get those treats at parties so they are "treats" not everyday occurounces. My kids are both slender and do a lot of swimming,gymnastics and general running around. As long as these are a "once in a blue moon" thing i am okay with it. The problem is the kids who open there lunch box and have the lollies and the chips and the muesli bars. There is only so much they can run off.

Answer 5

Once in a while a cupcake isn't going to hurt a child...God forbid, the evil sweets...Child hood obesity wasn't a problems years ago, when children weren't glued to tv and video games and the schools actually allowed recess and gym class was every day.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Candy is not allowed at school. Parents do bring in cake or cupcakes for birthdays. I certainly don't have a problem with that. They also have icecream on every Wed and the school asked me for my permission at the beginning of the school year. Sweets in moderation are perfectly fine for kids!! Keep it away and they will want it more and find a way to get it.

Answer 8

Well some schools are banning sweet and most kids have cavities or tooth decay so at party's they serve healthy snacks like sugar free cookies or apples with sugar free Carmel like last year i made hard boiled eggs so its fine maybe they have some sweets some times so again its fine But they cant stop giving diabetics sugar or they can get very ill so its okay.

Answer 9

im not a parent lol but if i was.. yeah course i would let my child have that sweet, i mean if it was your best friends birthday and they gave a piece of the birthday cake or a few sweets would you just not eat? i think not..
if you were thinking about obesity when you posted this.. no you arent going to get fat over 1 sweet/piece of cake. even the slimmest of slim people eat junk once in a while.. eg. me - i am underweight (dont believe it lol) anyway i have my junky days :D love it. hah
but if you were thinking about little kids accepting sweets from random strangers yeah tha could be danergous but if it was their friends or teacher im sure it would be ok to allow them to eat the sweet.

hope i helped =]

Answer 10

my childrens school does not allow sweets which as it is a primary school i feel this is write. however my other children at senior school are allowed to eat whar they want, which i feel is only right as they are by this age able to understand fully the implications of eating too much rubbish. i know my children and they eat sweets sometimes because i dont make a big deal about it. primary school children just think only of getting sweets because there not allowed them.
its hard but time and age is a big factor in food dictation. i ensure that all my children have a full varied diet every day so i don not worry if they have swets, chocs etc.. they are healthy and fit so i dont worry.