Children not allowed squash in school !
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Indeed. I think it's a parents job to teach their kids not to blindly follow the rules. I mean they should understand that in general rules are for the greater good but should never be taken as verbatim.
I used to work for an LEA with some really deprived inner city schools on their books. Not once did I hear of a case of alcohol being smuggled in via disguised squash.
Right it was me that posted that comment on my brothers account. For a start the fries versus crisp easily balances out sub vs burger. Secondly i couldnt be bothered breaking it down completely but here you go!
Subway - Fat 29.1g, salt 1.4g
Mcdonalds - Fat 28g, salt 2.1g
So again no difference. I already said i chose subway over any of the others but you have to be stupid to think its any healthier than other fast food options. All the nutritional info is clearly available. Just irks me that people think its the healthy option, bit like people drinking diet coke to be healthy!
Change schools/ Give the little ****er a bottle of water, he'll soon drink it when thirsty !
Please read whole thread and you will see I have posted the answer .
And who do you think you are calling my son a ****er ?
No it doesn't balance out at all as who realistically goes in and has a small cheeseburger and chips? And like I said, I choose the worst sub of the lot, plenty of them are a few hundred kcal and much more less fat.
Also, diet drinks aren't less healthy than full sugar ones?
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I'm not sure which case your arguing?
Either way, your people can believe what you want but it is fact that Subway is not a healthy meal.
About diet coke. There is less sugar and calories but there is plenty of other bad stuff in there. It won't make you fat but it certainly won't do you any good.
Some people think Subway is healthy, when in reality it just isn't as unhealthy, gram for gram, as McDonalds.
So both are unhealthy, McD's just more so.
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Haha so much rage in this thread. Don't have any kids but my niece lives with me. She's only allowed a bit of non-water drinks during meal times but only water at any other part of the day. She never complains or has any express hate for water.
She only really wants the other stuff when she sees the grown up adults drinking it - guess I should set a proper example and drink water too eh?
She only really wants the other stuff when she sees the grown up adults drinking it - guess I should set a proper example and drink water too eh?
We only started having squash at home because I didn't like the taste of plain water (too metallic) tho the fountain at school must have been filtered coz I never minded that. (or maybe our water supply at home was nasty). Neither of my parents drink squash.
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It isn't the drink at meal times, it's what they can drink during lesson times.
Jesus!
I don't understand, why can't you compromise with him? Eg, Breakfast - Milk/fresh juice, School - Water, Tea - squash/water
I agree with Skywalker, if we don't pander to kids every desire we will end up with a load of people who can only work at maccy d's. On the other hand from what I have seen, the best way to raise well behaved balanced children is to let them do what they like.
Kids make a big deal about everything because there is little of importance in their lives. My mum made dinners I didn't really like and I ate them because I would be hungry otherwise. She didn't ever have juice in the house even though I much preferred juice to water. I drank water. I whinged for 10 minutes then forgot about it.
If not drinking juice is that much of a big deal to your kid then you have cocked up somewhere along the line.
Kids make a big deal about everything because there is little of importance in their lives. My mum made dinners I didn't really like and I ate them because I would be hungry otherwise. She didn't ever have juice in the house even though I much preferred juice to water. I drank water. I whinged for 10 minutes then forgot about it.
If not drinking juice is that much of a big deal to your kid then you have cocked up somewhere along the line.
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Unhappy with GD response...run to mumsnet? 
What is there to compromise ? He doesn't like the taste of water so I will not force it upon him
Cant understand how some people are so dumb to not realise he is still drinking water , I don't understand why so negative against it , He drinks everything else and eats everything now including tomatoes as he had them on a pizza cooked with oil on them but not raw so it is not as if he refuses .
I drank squash more or less exclusively at home, but have never had an issue with tap water.
We were banned from fizzy drinks (except when at restaurants, parties etc..) though. Maybe the kids who don't like water drink too much coke?
We were banned from fizzy drinks (except when at restaurants, parties etc..) though. Maybe the kids who don't like water drink too much coke?
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Well, at least he's eating pizza cooked in oil now. That's an ... improvement?