A mother lodges a complaint after her child is given a jelly snake as a reward in an athletics team. The incident sparks a debate about junk food policies.
It started with a jelly snake . I had been handing out a single jelly snake to each girl in my daughter’s little athletics team at the end of the sessions I was age manager for (a role I share, alternating weeks with another mum). My decision to hand out the lolly was innocuous enough, I thought. But the real bite was in what it represented – an issue that impacts all of us.
One afternoon, as I handed out one jelly snake to each girl, a mother marched towards me, demanding to know what was the occasion. I was stumped. There was no “occasion”, it was simply a small reward for some cooked kids who had spent an hour and a half in the blazing sun running, jumping and throwing after a long day at school. Visibly angry, the other mum turned on her heel, taking the jelly snake from her daughter’s hand. Later, she lodged a formal complaint about my actions with the club. She wanted to know what was the club’s junk food policy and why her child was being given a lolly every week. Initially, I felt bad for the girl but also for being presumptuou
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