On 08/09/2013 19:02, Tim Watts wrote:
On Sunday 08 September 2013 16:23 Dave Liquorice wrote in uk.d-i-y:

On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 14:49:55 +0100, tony sayer wrote:

Well I got sick it so I grabbed him by the throat slammed him
against
a wall put my fist to his face and shouted "answer back to me
once
more and I'll smash your face in".

Probably .. If someone else or more then the someone else had tried to
drum a few things into him when he was younger then you wouldn't have to
be doing that now;!...

Quite, Schools have just gone back and the media has stories of
children starting school for the first time still in nappies or
unable to use a knife and fork. What have their parents been doing
for the last 4 years or so FFS!.

I have just had it confirmed by one of mine that there are some kids getting
their food cut up for them in thye lower primary school years.

They do not even make them finish the mains befor ethey are allowed pudding
- this I have seen with my own eyes.

I must admit I was (and still am to an extent, although much less so) a
very faddy eater. It's not that I dislike the taste of most foods, but
certain textures and any hot food that has cooled too much make me
heave. In my primary school days, the meals were poor quality and cooked
off-site, so often fatty, chewy meat and half cold, with congealed
gravy. Being forced to eat it made my life hell, made approaching dinner
times something to dread and put me off most foods for the next 20
years. The number of dinnertimes I spent stuck at the table while
everyone else was out playing, crying my eyes out as some sadistic
dinnerlady insisted I eat it all are uncountable. If I'd been allowed to
leave what I intensely disliked (even if it meant no pudding), my
primary school life would have been a whole lot better and I'd have
eaten a much wider selection of food in the following decades.

SteveW