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BLOWN AWAY

newstart2380 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:18:46 GMT

Would you believe they are trying to stop children at pre school blowing out candles because they might blow saliva onto the cake ?

I think it would be a lot worse in an aged care facility when someone turns 100, the mind boggles.

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the_hawk* — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:22:33 GMT

The world has gone mad

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crystal**flake — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:29:57 GMT

Kids are dirty little blighters.

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kengillard — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:30:01 GMT

what rubbish!!

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catsnknots — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:39:21 GMT

as much as I would like to say that the Gillard party went too far I have to say that this actual fact is false.... it is up to the centers to make that decision but from what I understand they have made it easier to do so.

BUT... having had gastro the past 3 days I think it is a good idea... wash hands more often and have cup cakes instead...

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**meep** — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:41:39 GMT

Trying to? It has been happening for a while now. We teach our kids that it is not OK to share water bottles, why would you think it would be OK to consume a birthday cake with saliva icing??

Have you ever seen a snotty kid blowing out candles? Gross.

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newstart2380 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:46:14 GMT

When I was at school "away back when" we did all sorts of things that are considered gross and unhygienic today and we rarely got sick. I believe in hygiene but this is going a bit to far.

Who's to say they don't put ONE candle in the cupcake and they all blow it out together, yuk that would be worse.

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cherry*135 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:48:07 GMT

Lots of people have always been wary about eating a child's birthday cake when the child has been blowing/breathing,drooling all over it.

Agree with meep - it is gross to breathe/blow all over a cake, then expect others to eat it.

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cherry*135 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:49:38 GMT

A lot of pre-schools & schools have a ban now anyway, on children bringing cakes/cup cakes from home to share with the class.. because cakes aren't healthy.

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**meep** — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:49:58 GMT

unfortunately not all parents do the responsible thing and keep sick kids at home.

When I was at school "away back when" we did all sorts of things that are considered gross and unhygienic today and we rarely got sick. I believe in hygiene but this is going a bit to far.

Who's to say they don't put ONE candle in the cupcake and they all blow it out together, yuk that would be worse.

Wouldn't that be better? The kid blows the candle on his/her cupcake? There rest can have their own without their friend's saliva.

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newstart2380 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:53:31 GMT

Lots of people have always been wary about eating a child's birthday cake when the child has been blowing/breathing,drooling all over it.

Agree with meep - it is gross to breathe/blow all over a cake, then expect others to eat it.

I have never seen a child drool/breath or blow all over a birthday cake, maybe wrap the kids in plastic before we send them out the door each day, better still keep them at home in a plastic bubble with an oxygen tank attached so they don't breath in any germs, get real and let your kids live. They stand more chance of infection if they don't get a bit of dirt on them so they build up an immune system.

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lakeland27 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:01:51 GMT

are these children ferals ? otherwise it's fine 🙂

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**meep** — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:03:55 GMT

I have never seen a child drool/breath or blow all over a birthday cake, maybe wrap the kids in plastic before we send them out the door each day,

no no.....what some pre-schools are doing is covering the cakes with plastic which is removed after the birthday child finishes spitting on it.

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izabsmiling — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:04:36 GMT

as much as I would like to say that the Gillard party went too far I have to say that this actual fact is false.... it is up to the centers to make that decision but from what I understand they have made it easier to do so.

The recommendations were criticised by opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton who told Macquarie Radio earlier on Wednesday the government was running a nanny state.

"It's really beyond the pale and I think mum and dad know how to bring up kids," he said.

But Ms Plibersek said the recommendations were almost identical to those released in 2005 under then health minister Tony Abbott.

"Peter Dutton has basically gone out and said that Tony Abbott is a nanny state enforcer and that parents don't know what they're doing and that Tony Abbott as health minister was gone mad," she said.

The guidelines, titled Staying Healthy, also stress that children should wash their hands with alcohol sanitiser before and after playing in the sandpit.

BUT... having had gastro the past 3 days I think it is a good idea... wash hands more often and have cup cakes instead...

No 'cake police' in childcare centres

From:AAP February 06, 2013 4:20PM

THERE'S no danger of cake police shutting down childcare centres, Health Minister Tanya Plibersek says.

The ministerial reassurance came after National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guidelines released on Tuesday advised against blowing out candles on birthday cakes being shared at childcare centres.

Ms Plibersek says centres that don't comply won't be punished but it makes sense for children not to spread germs knowingly.

"There's a degree of common sense required," Ms Plibersek told reporters in Canberra.

"We're not going to have the cupcake police out, but childcare centres know that whatever they can do to reduce infections in childcare centres is going to be good for the kids, good for the families they support and good for childcare workers."

The NHMRC document suggests preventing the spread of germs by putting a candle on a separate cupcake for the birthday child to blow out rather than on a shared cake.

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izabsmiling — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:10:11 GMT

Cats Back, I agree with what you've said.:-)

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cherry*135 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:15:49 GMT

I have seen heaps of little kids blow, breathe & drool over their birthday cakes trying to blow the candles out.. it is quite hard for them to get all the candles out so they have several goes.. My 2 children had lots of b'day parties and went to lots of their friends and friends siblings ones & I went to them too when they were small.

At a kids birthday party it is usually only the kids that eat the cake.

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azureline** — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:20:15 GMT

I have never liked the candle blowing... and if I have to eat the cake, I never eat the icing......

However, I am not a fan of taking cakes to school or kindy etc.

It causes a lot of angst for a lot of children and parents.

We are having so many problems with digestion/colours/flavours/food additives/preservatives/ special diets/processed foods etc. time to call a halt to it.

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crystal**flake — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:24:14 GMT

My first thought was, oh how silly, but when you think about it, it is gross.

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newstart2380 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:26:32 GMT

I have never liked the candle blowing... and if I have to eat the cake, I never eat the icing......

However, I am not a fan of taking cakes to school or kindy etc.

It causes a lot of angst for a lot of children and parents.

We are having so many problems with digestion/colours/flavours/food additives/preservatives/ special diets/processed foods etc. time to call a halt to it.

Yes, it's all about education at home, no nuts, no eggs, no blowing out candles, no cart wheels, no bouncing balls, no touching. Hey let's go all the way and say no sex then we would not have kids at all and we would not have to worry LOL :^O

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azureline** — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:27:32 GMT

did you take cakes to school for your birthday?