Free school meals

[Highway Man]

All I wanted was for my parents to love me. I didn't care about money as a kid.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

School dinners suck'd, so i took a packed lunch.
If i'd know about a Bento Box i'd definitely asked for that.

I've always been a slow, picky eater. I always paid, but simply couldn't eat swede, or fatty meat, never a big meat eater - always last to finish, with a teacher stood over me, preaching about how I ought to be grateful for the food, with all the starving in the rest of the world. For my final two years at (a different) school, I asked my mother if I could nip the two miles home, mother out at work, and get something from the chippy instead. I spent those last two years, jogging home, and having chips and peas for dinner.

 

[Jurassicspark]

All I wanted was for my parents to love me. I didn't care about money as a kid.

Nowadays it's just kids watching horrid Henry all day.

 

[gas112]

and if you got milk with your dinner in a bottle the foil cap was saved for the blue peter guide dog appeal . Same as the top from the free bottle of milk you got in the morning

 

[RrogerD]

If you want to suffer a stigma try being a vegetarian kid at school in the 70s.
And later, free school meals also.
Parenting eh. You / they don't realise the nightmare they're setting up for the kids with their 'fancy' ideas.

 

[gas112]

At least the nit nurse wasnt selective, we all got that

 

[robinbanks]

My own sprogs want for nowt.

Mine too.. do you think it's a universal positive? I'm not sure.. Doubly so at Xmas when they each ask for an Xbox, TV, gaming chair, headset and iPhone

 

[noseall]

Mine too.. do you think it's a universal positive? I'm not sure.. Doubly so at Xmas when they each ask for an Xbox, TV, gaming chair, headset and iPhone

Yeah, they gotta have what their mates have got, I suppose.

Both mine have turned out ok . Both hard working lads.

 

[ajrtd]

and if you got milk with your dinner in a bottle the foil cap was saved for the blue peter guide dog appeal . Same as the top from the free bottle of milk you got in the morning

I remember doing that yet you're quite a bit younger than me.

 

[ajrtd]

If you want to suffer a stigma try being a vegetarian kid at school in the 70s.
And later, free school meals also.
Parenting eh. You / they don't realise the nightmare they're setting up for the kids with their 'fancy' ideas.

By Philip Larkin
They fu ck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fu cked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

 

[Highway Man]

Yeah, they gotta have what their mates have got,

And that’s your idea of good parenting?

 

[robinbanks]

I'm sure noseall meant "they [feel they] gotta have what their mates have got"

Fair sick of mine "needing" to go to school in 160 quid Nike Air 270 whatevers, that then turn out to be the wrong colour/season/whatever other scornful thing their dipshit mate chooses to exercise his sour grape tendencies with today

Bullying seems to have many more varied forms these days (or maybe I was more oblivious)

 

[gas112]

I remember doing that yet you're quite a bit younger than me.

na not that many years between us

 

[ajrtd]

 

[noseall]

And that’s your idea of good parenting?

It was an intentionally wry statement with a smattering of truth attributed to it.
Good patenting hmm? It certainly can't be condensed into a single phrase.
However it is true to say, they are a product of their parents.