I recently encountered the question that Food, especially goodies, is offered to children in kindergarten or nursery school, which parents do not want their children to take.
I want to refer first, obviously, to baubles, because they are the most controversial “food” and it is usual to take them as a gift on birthdays, but also to other products that, for whatever reason, not being the allergic child or suffering from a health problem, the parents freely decide that Your children do not eat.
The first person I heard about it was a mother who did not want her daughter to eat cookies with white sugar, non-wholemeal flour or hydrogenated fats even though the nursery school insisted that they were given to all children in The snack
The goodies, candies and other sweets They are still common in many houses and it is customary to take a package to school on birthdays. However, there is a growing awareness that they are not very good for the health of children and there are quite a few parents who stop offering them.
The decision must be theirs and no one should judge who decides not to include these products in their child's food, nor, of course, give them to the children without the parents knowing and giving their permission.
If we go a little further, there are also reasons to avoid industrial pastries, canned juices, industrial soft drinks and, in general, any food that carries sugars or hydrogenated fats. The decision, as with the question of sweets, must be of the parents.
I believe that in nursery schools and nurseries, as well as later in schools, the distribution of food at birthdays should be avoided and, if possible, attend to the decisions about feeding their children that parents want to raise.
It is a fairly widespread custom. When I was a child it was normal to carry a bag of candies and distribute it among the children. We were very excited. But it is true that then eating sweets was not so common, was part of the party and was not as aware as now of the adverse effects of industrial sweets, its preservatives and dyes, or what the same sugar does in the body.
How could this question be raised in a school? For some it will be an exaggeration to ban it, but for others it would be the easiest way to prevent the child who does not eat them from feeling sad or the parents find that they offer food to their child without their authorization.
In the nursery school to which I took my son, they would not let candy until they were six years old, but the alternative is not that it was very good, because juices and buns were distributed.
Let us think what each of us thinks about this decision, what I think is that we have no right to judge or interfere, and we must respect the parents' decision about feeding their children, especially if healthy issues arise.
There is a lot of talk about personalized education, individual attention, respect and difference, but when it comes to the truth, there is much progress to be made in these matters. For starters I think the deal baubles at school It has to end.
