Recent observations

[ailbhe]

This evening:
A: Are you drowning my baby?
R: No, she's doing it quite effectively by herself.

Overheard in a queue for ferry check-in on Saturday morning:
Are there any fucken muslims here?
I was deligh'e' when they shot that fella yesterday.
They should bomb the fucken mosque, that's be a pleasant change.

Seen, not overheard, on the ferry on Saturday: A woman pouring Coke (Coca-Cola) from a labelled bottle into a toddler's bottle, the kind with a teat, like for drinking formula or milk.

Comments

Coke

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

The same woman must have been in town this afty. I was horrified to see her buy a bottle of diet coke in Woolies, take a few sips & then pour the remainder into an avent bottle & give it to a baby about Holly's size & age (ie 7 months!!!!!!)

God, I'm such a "good" parent as Holly has only had breastmilk, formula milk & cooled boiled tap water. In an ideal world, she wouldn't have had formula milk either, but diet coke is unbelievable.

Re: Coke

[ailbhe]

Perhaps she chose diet coke so that it wouldn't hurt the baby's teeth?!

Re: Coke

[k425.livejournal.com]

*snork*

Re: Coke

[megabitch.livejournal.com]

Now that, in my world, is child abuse. Getting a baby/child into the habit of soft drinks or sweet stuff is just so far beyond wrong. I often tell people about K and the Cadbury Creme Egg when she was 3 months old. It's amusing now, but I was horrified at the time that my mother would even think that it was an acceptable thing to do (Mum had her while I had to follow the ambulance with her father in to hospital for emergency appendectomy, I got back to mum's to find K contentedly suckling on a CCE... "It was the only way I could keep her quiet." FFS! I'd left a couple of bottles of breast milk She was only 3 months old!).

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to resist the urge to make comments about bringing up other people's children, but I've seen women (girls, really) do that with Coke before, and seen mothers give chocolate bars to babies around a year old - ones with 2 teeth, or less. Quite apart from the mess, what are they thinking? I'm still horrified at the thought of people giving tea & coffee to small children because of the caffeine, let alone to babies - and in the form of sugary, acidic, tooth-rotting Coke rather than milky tea-which-takes-the-milk-flavour-away :/

[ailbhe]

Everyone brings up other people's children in their heads...

The trouble is that it's the minor infractions (She's not wearing both socks!) that get commented on, because we're all afraid to remark on the major ones (You're beating her! If you did that to me, an adult, it would be assault! Stoppit!)

But I said nothing to her. She almost certainly already knew she was wrong to be doing it, and I'm not a diplomat.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

She's not wearing both socks! lol! (literally)

I admit I don't much care for small children, thus I do not spend much time around small children - but even I know that babies will take off their socks (and slippers, and mittens...) and throw them around the room. How you're supposed to stop this, I don't know. To be honest, I still do take off my slippers and throw them, although I try to aim for somewhere where I won't trip over them and will be able to find them again.

Unless it was indirect communication to say something like "I saw a sock on the pavement back there, was it yours?" or "Have you checked the changing room for the other sock?". In which case it failed utterly.

[k425.livejournal.com]

How you're supposed to stop this, I don't know.

Staples. Or superglue.

Stop looking at me like that...

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

I gave my children chocolate at a year old, and what I was thinking was that it does no harm in moderation, and that food restrictions are the most sure-fire known way of inducing eating disorders in adult life.

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Jack get a chocolate button once or twice a week.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would be the sort of amount ours got at that age. Now, we let them choose sweets or other small treats two or three times a week, and mostly, they choose small toys or comics - but I think it's important that they know the sweet stuff isn't forbidden.

[ailbhe]

Linnea pretty much gets what she asks for. This means that, when confronted with a shop fridge, she begs for sports bottles of mineral water... but if I drank fizzy orange, she'd probably get a taste of that too.

A *taste*, mind you, not a 7-oz bottle full. But I've always been funny about bottles...

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

Linnea pretty much gets what she asks for.

Ours are of an age to have pocket money, now, so between that and the treats we get them, they could probably have sweets every day if they wanted to. They seem to moderate their intake quite naturally - for instance, there are usually still Christmas stocking leftovers in their rooms around the summer half-term (end of May).

[ailbhe]

I'm *hoping* that this is what will happen. It's how Rob works, for example. But my chocolate intake... Well. It's not the best of good examples.

I suspect my chocolate is actually self-medication, mind you.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

My eating habits aren't the best either, but they're a lot better since I stopped trying to diet. I can have chocolate sitting in the fridge or the storecupboard uneaten for months now, which would never have happened before. When I do eat it, quite often it's self-medication for me, too.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

Gah. Like the woman that I saw in Coolock feeding Chipsticks to her tiny toddler. Way to go on instilling the healthy eating habits...

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

I was apparently called a bitch at baby club at the library a few weeks ago for being shocked when my 16 week old was offered Quavers. Luckily Sure Start appear to have used the excuse to bar the grandmother doing the offering (it was far from her first infraction).

[ahruman.livejournal.com]

In much of the third world, coke is often fed to babies because it’s so much cheaper than milk or, come to that, than clean water.

Campaigns have led to mothers switching to Fanta because, y’know, orange juice is healthy. :-/

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Cheaper than breastmilk?

[ailbhe]

The breastmilk dried up while they were using the free samples...