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Baby at Burger King- do I live in a bubble?

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Howshat · 31/12/2025 22:48

We live in the countryside. Took DC to the city today and had lunch at Burger King. There was a couple there with their baby, about 8 or 9 months old. Not walking. She was sitting in a high chair and had a phone in front of her. She was mainly ignoring it and looking around at the people in the restaurant.

Their food came and the parents fed her a burger, chips and apple juice, with the phone still in front of her.

I‘m happy to accept that I live in a bubble. But I‘ve never seen anything like this before and was very shocked. This was a baby, not a toddler.

Is this a normal thing nowadays?

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CJones11 · 31/12/2025 22:55

How can you be sure she was just 8 or 9 months old? My twin girls are 1 and absolutely tiny, only now moving into 6-9 month clothes. Yet they can eat and eat, and if we were going to a fast food place, I would get them a children's meal 🤷‍♀️
Granted, I wouldn't give them apple juice, and none of my children eat with phones, but loads of families choose to allow it. Whatever works for them.

Toottooot · 31/12/2025 22:54

Could have been worse - could have given the kid full fat Irn Bru.

Pancakeflipper · 31/12/2025 22:51

That's disgusting. They should go to Nandos.

Gowlett · 31/12/2025 22:51

Totally normal for lots of people. The food & the phone…