‘I’m sick of health visitors’ mum rages after being scolded over kids’ breakfasts & ordered to take son, 3, to weigh ins
A MUM has been left raging after being scolded over her kids' breakfasts by the health visitor.
Hollie took to her TikTok page to express her shock after the healthcare worker told her that the toast, fruit and yoghurt she was giving her two children for breakfast wasn't healthy enough.
Sharing a snap of their two plates, loaded with four squares of toast with jam, half a banana, some berries and a small yoghurt.
"Would you feed your children this for breakfast?" she wrote over the top.
"Having disagreements with the health visitor.
"This is an everyday breakfast for my kids but yet it's not good enough for them telling me to have no toppings on the toast (jam) and ditch the yoghurts."
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Hollie added that if they didn't have that, they would have "Weetabix and honey or fruit and yoghurt".
"What do you feed your kids for breakfast?" she asked.
"She seriously told you this wasn’t good enough?? Seriously?" one person wrote in the comments.
To which Hollie replied: "Yep now making my son go for a weigh in every month."
"Respectfully I had to give my kids chocolate biscuits with their breakfast today cause we’re halfway through the summer holidays and I’m fighting for my life," another added.
"This is a great breakfast!"
"The way I see it is, if they're eating who bloody cares?!" Hollie insisted.
"My son is a little chunky - they're more or less telling me to put him on a diet and weigh him regularly.
"I’m not doing the weigh ins anymore.
"It could lead to eating disorders in the future.
"I’m sick of health visitors tbh."
And other parents were quick to admit their children have more unhealthy breakfasts than Hollie's.
"God she’d hate seeing my kids," one wrote.
"They eat a chocolate chip brioche and a packet of crisps some mornings."
"My daughter had a bag of quavers and a Jaffa cake yesterday," another added.
"This is gourmet!"
"Honestly, I see this as great," a third said.
"My daughter absolutely ate a bag of crisps for breakfast over the summer at some point!"
What is the NHS' advice for helping children stay a healthy weight?
THE NHS has tonnes of advice on their website about helping children stay a healthy weight.
They say parents should:
- encourage your children to do some kind of activity every day. It can be a good idea to find something they like doing, such as sports or playground activities, and encouraging that
- try to give them a healthy, balanced diet that includes fruit and vegetables, starchy foods, protein and dairy
- use rewards like stickers for when your children reach their activity or food goals
- make yourself their role model by staying active and eating healthily
- help them get enough sleep. By enforcing a regular bedtime routine, and removing technology from their bedrooms, you are helping them stay healthy too
"I don’t see a single problem with this breakfast, as long as they’re eating and healthy what does it matter?" another insisted.
While others used their comments to offer Hollie some advice on cutting down the amount of sugar in the breakfast.
"You could easily do some swaps to make it healthier," one wrote.
"You could do greek yoghurt and mash up some of the fruit through it- takes away the sugary pre packed yoghurt."
"It is high in sugar considering bread, jam, yoghurts and fruit are converted to sugar," another added.
"Even though fruit has vitamins, it’s still sugar in the body. Fruit is very good but all together, it’s a lot.
"Not knocking you at all, I have a toddler and she is fussy so I scratch my head to reduce sugar. It’s hard!"
As a third said: "It’s not great but better than a lot I've seen! I agree with no jam though - peanut/nut butters or just good quality butter is so much better.
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"And yoghurts are full of sugar so maybe Greek yoghurt and toppings.
"However we are all human and sometimes we need to eat like this!"