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  • Fines For Parents With Obese Children

    Fines For Parents With Obese Children.

    Recent statistics show that one in five children will be obese by the time they leave primary school, twenty percent of ten and eleven year olds are obese but are the parents to blame?

    Childhood obesity is on the rise but is fining parents going to solve the problem?

    It’s easy to lay the blame but surely educating children to cook healthy nutritious meals in school regardless of their home situation would benefit our children and the future generations.

    Cheap food and soft drinks, television marketing, the vast amount of fast food restaurants surely must take a portion of the blame. According to reports deprived areas have a higher obesity rate than more affluent areas  if that is the case than surely the answer would be education and exercise?

    Funding more out of school clubs for children to play sports, cooking classes for parents on a budget even family fun days where everyone would join in is better than fining cash strapped parents money they don’t have already.

    Or is fining them the answer? Feed your children healthy food and make them exercise or risk a fine will make parents sit up and listen and change the diets of children and also the mindset of the child.

    We as parents are all guilty of giving a children sweets, crisps, chocolate and fast food now and again but is it all in moderation or are some parents too lazy to cook or prepare food and just buy cheap easy convenience food to feed their children?

    Wouldn’t the answer be to make fatty sugary food expensive and healthy food more cost-effective? Are parents entirely to blame for the rise in obesity in our children or does the blame lie elsewhere?

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  • Stricter Laws Need To Be Made For School Parking

    Stricter laws need to be made for school parking.

    So you receive a ticket for parking in the wrong area of town or running late to get back to the car park or stopping on double yellow lines, fair enough perfectly reasonable to receive a parking ticket, you took the risk and now you have to pay the cash.

    But I do feel there should be far stricter parking fines and punishments for poor parking around schools, after all children’s lives are put in grave danger.

    At my children’s school, parents will park over drive ways, pull up on the yellow no stopping marks to drop off children, park on grass verges, corners you name it they park there.

    Parking wardens visit occasionally but little is done, it would be great if the school caretaker or a designated person within the school could issue fines or take photographs and pass it onto someone who would punish these inconsiderate and dangerous people.

    It would appear to be that many parents would rather park dangerous than be two minutes late to pick up or drop of their own children.

    I often see children having no choice but to cross between two parked cars, or mother with buggys having to dodge round cars to get across roads, at my children’s school there is a young boy in a wheelchair whose mum lives opposite the school having to regularly walk 50 yards up the road just to find a free drop kerb to push the wheelchair across.

    I don’t think parking in a loading bay or running 5 minutes late to get back to your car should receive the same fine or punishment as risking a child’s life!

    Let us know your thoughts in the comments

    Post submitted by Alan Valeur. If you would like to share your story with us please email mumsadviceltd@outlook.co

  • £60 Late For School Fines

    Ministers have backed the idea of fines for parents/carers whose child/ren are repeatedly late for school (over 30 mins late).
    Councils & schools in the West Midlands, Essex & Hampshird have all extended the £60 fixed penalties they issue for pupils who go on holiday during term time, to cases of consistent lateness. 

    Families have been told they could be prosecuted if they fail to pay the penalty after 28 days. 

    On Sunday the Government said it was right that schools monitored pupils lateness and “address it” where it becomes a concern and hand out fines when appropriate. 
    Warwickshire county council has issued guidance to inform parents it will fine families whose child/ren who repeatedly arrive more than 30 minutes after the register is taken.
    Winter Gardens Academy in Essex has also told parents they could be hit with £60 fines, which will double if not paid within 21 days.

    Teenagers who are often late, parents will be asked to walk their child to school or they will also be fined.

    What’s your thoughts on this?