chickencam Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Have any of you had daughters who have taken part in this rather odd activity as part of their PSHCE lessons?. My ED is in yr 9 at an all girls grammar and her friends at the couple of local mixed comps don't do this. Do you think it is a case of an all girls school being worries that without boy contact the girls are more vunerable? ED and her friends have had to use a 1.5kg bag of flour and made limbs and head for it then dressed it in baby clothes and take it to and from school and to all activities for one week. I find the whole thing a bit creepy, but then again I don't like dolls. I am glad she goes to school on a school bus rather than a service bus or I dread to think what people would make of her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clucky1 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Oooooh weird. Hope they don't drop it - what a mess I know that friends whom have an older daughter (mine are a bit little still) had to take home one of those battery - crying ones. It kept her daughter AND my friend up all night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Our school has had the battery ones too, though not seen it for a while... Considering my eldest daughter was very nearly 10 when we had our last baby, I don't think she needs to carry a battery one or a flour one around... we've got the real thing!! Didnt' the school explain the aims of the flour babies? I know the battery ones cry, and need regular 'feeding', 'changing' and so on (from what I understand all done by inserting the right card in a slot in the baby's back), but what would a flour one do, except be bulky and weird to carry around? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Jonathan Ross had one on his show a while ago, his daughter had made it at school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 My son did this years ago...he's 22 now. Very worthwhile in my opinion....if not a trifle messy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Oooooh weird. Hope they don't drop it - what a mess No worse a consequence as with a real baby so I guess thats part of the point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 We had to do something with an egg when we were at school many moons ago. Take it everywhere for a week. God help the egg if you were going Alton Towers!!! I can't picture a flour baby - can we see a photo? I presume it teaches a bit of responsibility???!!!! Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard T Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 If you had a girl flour baby who later on fell in with some lards, would she turn out to be a tart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 that was awful I dont know why I laughed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 *drum roll* thank you Richard! I think that all pre-teens ought to spend a week working at a day nursery - the best contraceptive ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckmomma Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 My niece had to do this when she was about ten, but my daughter didn't (both girls are sixteen now.) My niece really enjoyed the task, she and her friends competed to see who could produce the most attractive flour baby, and who's baby was in the best condition at the end of it Fortunatly the electronic doll my daughter was due to bring home this year was broken by another girl, So I did not have to suffer a weekend of a screaming doll. I have always hated those crying dolls they make for the kids, you know the ones where if you lose the dummy you can't shut the darn thing up? I always removed the batteries at the first opportunity and told my daughter it was broke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyren Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 When I saw the title of this thread I immediately thought of the book by Anne Fine: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flour-Babies-Anne-Fine/dp/0140361472 though that is about a group of year 10 boys doing it. Thankfully they hadn't invented such things when I was at school! (Girls' grammar, as it happens.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Licken Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 We used to have the electronic ones at my last school. They cost thousands and there is nothing so sobering to a streetwise teenager as being kept up all night by the baby! ....Then again I have also seen one get broken by a BESD kid who had punched it so hard that he left a hand print in the rubber of the Torso - he is almost certainly a dad by now!! I guess the flour babies are a cheap alternative - if all goes well do you get to make a bumper batch of biscuits att he end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 if all goes well do you get to make a bumper batch of biscuits att he end? I wouldn't fancy one when I think of the places where my son had to take his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 love the comment Richard very funny ED did say that when they do their PHSCE lesson on Friday which is the end of the topic, they should all turn up with biscuits and cakes instead. The baby needed serious surgery last night, it's head had come off and one arm too, she felt that this would not reflect well on her by Friday She has found that quite a few of the boys from DS's boys grammar with whom they share a bus have been chatting her up this week, they have obviously been waiting for an ice breaker either that or they are all soppy about babies I will try to remember to take a photo tonight, the baby is wearing one of the babygrows that we had kept for old times sake. We went into the loft looking for clothes and I was amazed how many baby clothes we still had, it brought back a few memories and seeing ED with a baby has been quite odd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 If you had a girl flour baby who later on fell in with some lards, would she turn out to be a tart? Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 When I saw the title of this thread I immediately thought of the book by Anne Fine: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flour-Babies-Anne-Fine/dp/0140361472 That was what inspired my son's teacher all those years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 My school did the same thing, only with eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 right here is a photo of said baby with her 'mummy' who is camera shy she is one of the lucky babies, someones baby exploded today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard T Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 It's quite a Plain child isn't it? Are there any self-raising ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Wow! My son's was in a very sorry atate by the end of the project, despite having been quite well looked after. It lost weight too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 It's quite a Plain child isn't it? Are there any self-raising ones? and again I would like a self raising one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Wouldn't we all...it would save a lot of work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 what has Richard been feeding on today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard T Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I wonder what they'll want to be when they grow up? Many flour babies have gone on to have successful musical careers. Hovis Redding sang Sitting on the Rock Cake of the Bay; Burt Bakery wrote Walk on Pie; Bread had some hits; Cakey Melua (who's been working with Mike Battenburg); and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...