Mr and Mrs Brocolli

[charlie]

Oh,joy of joys........ Mr and Mrs Brocolli are coming to Megs school tomorrow to tell the children how to make healthy soups with their five a day for a healthy winter.........

Well Mr and Mrs Brocolli, if you dare suggest to my child that she will be unhealthy if she doesnt have her five a day I will stick you in my stew pot and boil you until you go to mush. Have written diplomatic letter to the effect that child must not be poisoned by their soup tasting session....... And please be careful how they handle this talk, or even better give child something else to do as she is just at that age when she takes everything to the letters I found out over the summer with her hair. The school had given them a pep talk about being more independent and doing stuff for themselves so she announced she was doing her own hair, lovely long golden locks that tangled easily. Five weeks later it was such a mat we had to cut it off....... Oh I so love this school.......NOT......

[jejns1]

Sounds just like my daughter's school. They have "Healthy Breakfast Day" every second
Tuesday morning. I had to go to school to explain to her Health teacher that Victoria's
version of a healthy breakfast is not anywhere near the same as the other kids. This
is frustrating as I have to do this explaining many times thru a school year, every
year, despite the reams of information I give them.
This time, for a pleasant change, her teacher wants Victoria to do a presentation to
her class on HFI and what Victoria has to avoid and what she can eat. For this Victoria
will get bonus points. It remains to be seen how she will be graded for this class, needless
to say she better not be penalized for not being able to fully participate.
Aint all this a pip!

[colormist]

Charlie, you just reminded me about the peanut butter & jelly group that came to my elementary school. They sang lots of fabulous songs and handed out peanut butter & jelly sandwiches to all the students in the assembly! Needless to say, I only ate the crusts (as I was wont to do as a picky eater) and threw the rest of the sandwich away. Nowadays they've completely banned peanut butter from some schools. I can't imagine how many kids discovered they had a peanut butter allergy on the days that troop came to school.

[charlie]

Blimey, thats an even riskier one, peanut butter, hope they had epipens on standby.....

Our school is supposed to be a "nut-free" school - so how come half the staff are still there?

[venusillegitima6]

Luckily, we never had any of that in my school. They did distribute us bread rolls during recess when I was a first grader and those rolls, though officially not sweet, had some good amount of sweet additives in them. Thankfully, my parents always gave me money to buy my own snacks.

One other fun thing - it's actually good having me as a friend when free cookies, candies, deserts and the like are being handed... I always give my friends and family my share of those nasty candies, lol