I hate to comment on others parenting, BUT...

[BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability]

I've just seen a post on facebook saying that someone is proud that their 6 week old baby has just eaten a whole jar of puree...

Has anyone else seen examples of interesting parenting first hand that they thought were the stuff of MN myth? I honestly didnt think that people this, ahem, naive existed!

I saw a couple pushing a pushchair yesterday containing a male toddler aged about 3. Toddler had a dummy, was holding a bottle of full sugar coke and had a single earring in one ear. The woman was heavily pregnant. Both man and woman were smoking those really long superkingsize fags in some sort of grotesque Bet Lynch parody.

Today I chatted to a lady pushing her 14-month-old DD around in her buggy sucking on a lollipop. A proper lollipop - like a boiled sweet on a stick. I was a bit , especially when the top bit fell off the stick. Luckily the mum saw and got it out of her mouth. Wonder if it counts as BLW?

The mum was lovely BTW.

I saw a 2 day old smoking crack out the back of Iceland whilst its mum filled the trolley with chicken tikka pizza bites.

I saw a child sitting in a shopping trolley at the supermarket checkout tucking into a tube of Pringles. The child was around 12 months (the same age as DD at the time). In the same supermarket, I saw a mother putting food into the mouth of a half-asleep baby who was strapped into a car seat - if he/she had started to choke there would have been the straps to grapple with before the baby could have been helped!

In general though, I am a draconian freak who won't let DD (21 months) eat a scrap of junk food (she can have a little bit when/if she starts to express a desire for it, but until then she can have healthy stuff), so I'm probably easily shocked :D

Were you stalking me around Iceland again tethers

I've got photos, usual.

Hope you have posted them on fb

I once saw a pregnant woman in the car park of Asda shoving a bottle of full fat coke up her fanny for her unborn baby to drink.

(too much?)

I dont know whether I should laugh or cry at this thread!!

I have seen the coke in the bottle one a few times.

When DS (21 months) was in hospital a few weeks back the nurse asked if he wanted sugar on his weetabix, I was shocked she asked at all until she said one child younger than DS a few weeks earlier had been in and his mum had complained he weetabix didnt have 3 spoons on sugar on like he was used to!

Yes squeakytoy almost a norm back in the 70's, baby rice added to the bottle of 6 weeks old or even 4 weeks old.
I had a severe milk intolerance when I was born, and it took back in them days a long time to get it diagnosed.
My mother fed me with rice water and baby biscuit mix from the age of about three weeks.
No excuse for it today, certainly for choc. pudding or cola drinks, I guess some people just can't be bothered with nutrition of their children.

I saw the opposite problem. I saw a boy of around 5/6 years drinking milk from a teated bottle in a restaurant at breakfast time. before you judge that maybe there was some reason why, he managed to eat a stack of pancakes with a knife and fork no problem

A three month old baby sucking on a piece of pizza is my recent favourite. Nice.

I remember seeing a Mum with her little girl who can't have been older than 3, in the park. The Mum had a bottle of fruit shoot & a bottle of lucozade with her. The kid got the lucozade & the Mum drank the fruit shoot. I really felt like going up to her & saying "do you know youve got that the wrong way round?"

Babe - at least the Mum knew better than to feed her child Fruitshoot!

To be fair, the lucozade probably contains less crap than the fruit shoot!

Equally bad lucozade and fruitshoot!

Sugar on weetabix? I would have called SS

I have posted abut this before, but I was aghast at the sight of a woman stretch some gum out of her mouth, break the end bit off, and then shove it into a toddler's (probably just under 2yo) mouth.

Grim, I hear you say?

Well, if you had seen her yank the toddler's dummy out to shove the gum in the child's mouth, and then shove it back in as soon as the gum was popped in, you, too, would probably have walked away trying to shake the image from your brain.

i once had a woman tell me i was the worst mother in the world and i should be locked up at a wedding after over hearing my 3 yr old niece come to ask me for some champagne which i said of course babe but don't tell anyone...

so once she finished making a great big show of herself and me i informed her it was Bratz kids champagne bought for the kids and she was to keep it a secret cause her she already had 2 glasses and granny would tell me off for giving her more (naughty auntie i know)

not the same thing but thought i'd share anyways :)

Kiki - just rememberd SIL and BIL wedding. SIL's mother was holding their 8 month old baby and dunking his dummy repeatedly in this sickly champagne/kir thing and getting him to suck it.

I remember thinking I'd be really pissed off if I caught someone doing that with my baby.

About 20 mins later I saw SIL holding the baby herself and getting him to sip out of the glass then calling people over to laugh!!

Reception was in a pub btw so this was all in front of a load of random people who'd popped in for a pub lunch. There must have been judgers among them!