Five a day

Nursery children are to receive free fruit or vegetables as part of a new Scottish Government healthy eating package that will also see poor families given targeted help to buy nutritious food.

It won’t be long before the Scottish Government will be supplying staff to families to change nappies and put the kids to bed. Whatever happened to parents having a responsibility for caring and rearing their own children?

Bob Hope

Why by 2020? Why not now?

Gwen O’neil

Wouldn’t it be more effective (and cheaper) to apply criminal penalties to those “parents” who can’t be bothered to use the generous funds already provided by government to feed and clothe their weans appropriately, instead of defrauding the taxpayer by using the cash to fund their own leisure lifestyles?

John Gailey

Far too many parents either do not have the basic cookery skills or can’t be bothered to learn.

Mary Young