AIBU to think that Heston Blumenwhatsit is having a terrible influence on the kids!!

[SallyBeth]

I'm just watching Heston on channel 4, where he is designing a sweet shop. As part of this, he went into a school, and had a big conversation with the kids about how lovely sweets and chocolate are, and then got them to design their perfect sweet. AIBU to think that this was a terrible idea? If my DC were in that class, and came home talking all about how great sweets were, and how they wanted chocolate and sweets, I would be fuming! Surely this is a pretty irresponsible thing to bring into the classroom?!

[KenLeeeeeee]

I don't think kids need much encouragement to think sweets are great. YABU.

[squeakytoy]

grips are thataway >>>>>>>

[kinkyfuckery]

But sweets are lovely. As a treat. Surely he wasn't suggesting otherwise?

[squeakytoy]

I suspect OPs kids have never been allowed to watch Willy Wonka..

[goralka]

yay for Heston and his sweetshop!!
YABVU

[Hulababy]

We had a "chocolate" day at school last year - y1 class. It was one of the creative curriculum days and was the chosen subject. Children learnt all about all things chocolate - history, science, cooking, they wrote about chocolate, did maths about it....etc. they also designed their own chocolate and its wrappers and talked about marketing. They loved it! Oh - and the end of it, they got to taste chocolate too :)

There is nothing wrong with sweets and chocolates every so often. No one, not even Heston, is advocating eating sweets all day every day.

[PickledInAPearTree]

Argh! Sweets are nice! Argh!

[SallyBeth]

But if you are trying to avoid the pressure to feed your DC refined sugar (and this is a lot of pressure - this thread alone shows that!), it doesn't help to have sweets and chocolate made acceptable and exciting in the classroom. I'm all for kids using their imaginations, but there are many other, better foodstuffs that they could design instead!!

[MissCellania]

Uhuh, because they kids had no idea that sweets were nice. They could have designed broccoli instead?
get a grip!

[goralka]

mmm yes lentil and spinach soup so yummy...

[PickledInAPearTree]

Sweets are acceptable and exciting as a treat.

That's why.

[Hulababy]

I see no reason for banning the idea that sweets and chocolates exist and can be nice from the classroom.
If parents chose to not allow their children sweets and chocolates that is for them to do - and just because they appear in a classroom doesn't mean that parents can;t do so - they just explain to their child their own reasons themselves.

[SneezySnatcher]

The parents will have been asked if their children could be filmed for tv and what it would entail. If they didn't want their kids to take part then they wouldn't have let them.

Get a grip.

[PickledInAPearTree]

Mumsnet is the place that joy forgot this evening.

Seriously..

Children need to learn the concept of treats. What else pretend that sweets don't exist?

[TheCrackFox]

Unless you live in a cave your DCs already know that sweets and chocolates are nice.

[squeakytoy]

Refined sugar may look like crack cocaine, but it actually isnt.

Teach your kids that sensible amounts of sweets and chocolate are not harmful, and they wont feel inclined to go stuffing their faces behind your back the moment they escape your constant clutches.

[SallyBeth]

Ok, I'm actually finding some of this pretty offensive. I know that refined sugar isn't crack cocaine, and my DC are not in my 'constant clutches'. I don't think that avoiding sugar and promoting fresh non processed food is a negative thing, and I can't quite believe that that is what some of you are saying.

I brought up what I thought was a valid concern, and just wondered if any of you felt the same. Apparently not.

[littlewhitebag]

You are correct - we don't feel the same! Sweets are delicious and most kids know this. Heston is not peddling sweets he is just using his imagination and skill to make extraordinary creations!

[Sparklingbrook]

Heston is a world class knob whatever he does TBH.

[nokidshere]

Its a one off surely?

I cook and serve up nutritious healthy meals to up to 12 children every day, but one day a year (at easter) we have no real food and have a chocolate party instead.

I make chocolate pizzas, chocolate cakes, biscuits, chocolate covered haribo etc etc - they talk about it all year and cant wait for it to come round again. But they still eat all the healthy nutritious meals I cook for the rest of the year.

yes yabu!

[Sparklingbrook]

Plus don't forget that children get a bit older, go to High School and have pocket money and may horror of horros buy sweets and chocolate.

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

Heston Blumenthal is a highly annoying twunt! HTH!

[missymoomoomee]

LTB

[Sparklingbrook]

And he sucks tampons between courses.