What do you think should be done about food poverty?

Just for the record, I'm very happy with how my three children have turned out as well. Flawed, struggling, at times very unhappy, but always loving, mostly hardworking, trying their best. Isn't part of being a good parent sticking with your children even when they have problems, rather than expecting them to 'never bring any trouble home' (favourite expression of my mother's) or to somehow be a credit to their parents? Not only happy, I'm proud of how they have overcome various problems. I take no credit for anything other than always being there to support them. How it's worked out is a matter of chance IMO.

Which is what I was saying a different way, nightowl.

There's nothing actually wrong with taking credit for doing one's best.

trying really hard to say no more...........

Right behind you, jings! Don't be oppressed by people who appear to disapprove of free speech.

However, right now i am going to clear out a book case of eight years' dross.

Sod it. Can't do it.

I think the result of being a reasonably decent parent is an adult child who cares about the rest of the people in the world, cares about the environment, and has a good capacity for giving love.

Def nothing to do with successful career, looks, or any of the other things gillybob mentioned there.

"Clean and tidy"????!!!!! No chance. Well, perhaps sometimes.

night owl I have been with my children through thick and thin. Of course. You do the best you can. Always.

No one is perfect. Who would claim to be?

Wow Bags! Respect! Good luck with it.

Bags only 8 years? What are you? A tidiness freak?
When you've finished would you like to come down here and help with 35years worth?

Now I think we're talking the same language jingll. Kids can lose their way though, however good a parent you might try to be.

We will have to agree to differ on how much influence being a loving parent has on what happens next.....

Phew, so glad i caught up with this before going out. Result, Respect - peace reigns on gransnet on the parenting front!

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Oh please no group hugs!!! Pleeeease!!!

for you jings. I think you are very brave to speak up for what you believe. There is a lot of support for you and the right to express your own opinion.

My tin hat is a bit rusty so I am behind the front line making encouraging noises!

That is so sweet!

I gave a because we seemed to have agreed to differ. 'nuff said.

Yes Marelli

I'm outta here for a while. Not interested in talk of tin hats or front lines

I'm away in next door to drink wine with the vicar and his lovely wife.

I wasn't inferring that my parenting skills were any better than anybody else, only that I am proud of the way they turned out and if we can't be proud of our children and grandchildren who we have raised who can we be proud of.

I'm sure Gagagran didn't mean anything unpleasant in her reference to tin hats! But we all know it can seem a bit scarey on here at times. In a ducking down behind the sofa kind of way!

Pax. For Pete's sake!

Back to food poverty. Lara - you got any bright ideas?

We would love to have your input. If it happened to you, would you turn to your old mum to help you out?

Don't be shy.

This thread should have gone under Other Subjects.

Not Chat.

Free school dinners are a start (provided they are nourishing dinners, not turkey twizzler style). Don't some school still provide milk, courtesy of EU funding? But that leaves a whole lot of people who need help apart from school children. What about the people who are too proud to go to food banks, probably older people? I saw on TV about a shop that sells near-date food and misshapen fruit and veg - we need more of these for people who are hard up but won't go to a food bank or are not so poor that they would qualify.