'Don't force pupils to eat all school dinner' advice

[samir_ansari]

'Don't force pupils to eat all school dinner' A.K.A how to miserably fail at a news thread.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15693213

The School Food Trust guidance says: "Younger children shouldn't always be expected to finish everything on their plate, and should be able to eat dessert even if they haven't finished their main course.

"Food should never be used as a punishment or a reward.

"Lunchtime supervisors and school cooks get to know about the likes and dislikes of individual children, and can vary portion sizes and the way food is presented to help...

Please see post #15

 

[Jokester]

Huh?

Sounds like sound advice?

 

[Craig1981]

Yeah I'm not with you on this one. What exactly is wrong with their proposal?

 

[SuperTronNarwhal]

Eat your beans! But i hate beans. Eat it or no leaving.

 

[samir_ansari]

Im all for kids eating less of the junk that schools currently feed them in school - but seeing as they are now moving towards healthier meals and allowing them to skip them and just go straight to a (I'm assuming) fatty desert that's full of sugar is quite a contradiction.

 

[Hagar]

How can you have pudding if you didn't eat all your meat! (abridged Pink Floyd)

 

[Globul]

Sounds good to me, treating food as rewards or punishment often leads to finickiness and food problems in later years as adults

 

[britboy4321]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15693213



I should've really posted this in the Friday joke thread.

I can't help but think these calls are made just to enrage the sane people in this country.

I'm sane and I'm not enraged. What's your point?

 

[daz]

When you make food a big deal, it becomes a big deal - it's a self fulfilling prophecy. Very rarely will a child not eat if they're hungry.

 

[samir_ansari]

What I was saying was that they are encouraging healthy eating by letting them skip the healthy food and going straight for a pudding.

 

[pellet]

Sound, common-sense advice! I'd imagine someone in the Daily Mail is writing a firm robust response, no doubt in the "in my day" mould.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

"Food should never be used as a punishment or a reward."

Agreed but if my child

"Younger children shouldn't always be expected to finish everything on their plate, and should be able to eat dessert even if they haven't finished their main course."

Agreed but how many children just go for the dessert over anything else? I say they should at least be made to eat at least half of it before any dessert is given otherwise they will still probably end up with an unhealthy attitude to food!

 

[Rroff]

Meh forcing people to eat anything is never right.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Why do we even need to spell this out for people, are they thick or something?

 

[samir_ansari]

Ok I read this article again and maybe I misread a few bits (embarrassed).

But schools are also advised not to allow pupils just to eat pudding

Sorry guys, back as you were!

I'm just so used to irrational calls made by these watchdogs so often that I have very little faith in them.

 

[Rroff]

Why do we even need to spell this out for people, are they thick or something?

Yes people are thick.

 

[samir_ansari]

Updated OP

Obviously I'm having a hard day at work and need a break.

 

[arc@css]

Good idea, a step away from the ignorant, old school approach of years ago.

 

[FoxEye]

meh, if OP's story was wrong, I'm editing my post out

 

[FoxEye]

Good idea, a step away from the ignorant, old school approach of years ago.

Was it really all bad? Weren't standards of discipline much higher?

Modern ideas are so wishy washy there is new advice every year.

Is that so much better?