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 hate to comment on other's parenting"....then don't.

One thing that really gets my back up is other parents coming over all smug and telling me how to raise my DCs while their way of doing it is so bloody perfect.

Not enough to turn off a passenger airbag. Might still go off. Have to get it deactivated.

But I AM perfect! has anybody seen my halo?

Nobody is telling you how to do it slave - we are merely discussing the fact that you are doing it wrong.....

Take it as you will, some things are good for you, some aren't, thats fact, whats hard to know is whether someone is out for a one off treat with their child or whether its their everyday diet (though if its in a baby bottle you can kinda have a reasonable guess I reckon).

Found it! _.

I know someone who gives her 2 year old daughter chewing gum, I think its awful, especially when my DS also 2 wonders why he's not allowed it!!

One of these days MIL will learn that dentist bills are not something I hanker after.

I'm not normally a judgy person but I was at a party in a pub a few years ago and went to the bar.All of a sudden there was a huge commotion down the other end.A dad had had his small baby,in a carseat,balanced on a bar stool and it had fallen off.The baby wasn't strapped in.
Luckily I had training in infant first aid and resucitation.The dad got a right lecture from me though.

Aspartame is also known as NutraSweet and AminoSweet.

My 2.5 yo told me the other day "don't eat too much sugar... little bit only, or teeth get black"

I was but secretly very pleased that I don't need to brainwash him now nursery are doing it for me.

Some very fun comments on this thread.

All fruit has acid and can damage teeth, that's why you brush.

A problem with aspartame is that although it is considered safe at use levels in a product, long term consumption of it in over numerous processed foods is theorized to have detrimental effects on the brain.

At my local play centre, I was told by the worker that outside food and drink was not allowed. I pointed out that they do not offer any reasonable healthy options; all the snacks and juice are full of unhealthy fats and sugar.

My current bugbear is a distant family member who is telling all on FB how advanced her 6wk olf DC is as the child just loves playing in their 'jumparoo'......it states from 6mths and when baby can hold up his own head!

Yup, Wiggles, DS1 has had one filling (the shame) despite never having had fizzy drinks, too many sweets, a v healthy diet and always brushing his teeth at least twice a day (dentist does think he has weak baby teeth).
Dentist said that raisins are a bugger for teeth.
He also said no need to completely avoid sugar, said that was completely unnnecessary.

So now he has full fat coke out of a bottle and a bag of Haribo twice a day.

Lovely teeth these days, no more problems.

Can I just point out (again from personal experience) that fruit and fruit juice in particular, especially citrus obviously, is quite acidic and you should not brush your teeth immediately after taking it - I went through a teenage phase where I drank pure oj by the gallon and rushed to brush immediately because of the high sugar content and basically the enamel is weak for a bit after you take it so I brushed the enamel away and have lovely veneers now which is a costly way to learn about it.

My DD loves holding bottles of whatever I'm drinking when she's in her pram, but she only drinks water and milk. I bet loads of people judge me for giving a 19 month old the wrong drinks.

""I hate to comment on other's parenting"....then don't.

One thing that really gets my back up is other parents coming over all smug and telling me how to raise my DCs while their way of doing it is so bloody perfect."

Oh one of the more fun and enjoyable aspects of parenting is thinking everyone else is doing it wrong whilst wearing judgey pants and hiding a smug smile.

Some of these observations are disgusting (e.g. lager) but other things, to non parents, are really not that shocking. The car seat, eating lying down, exact age to start weaning - these are not common knowledge to non parents (I say this as a 35yo pregnant woman who has not been around babies much).

I'm not defending these people, and I certainly hope to learn these things in due course. However, IMO it's fair to say that unless you are a conscientious parent who actively reads and seaches for info about parenting, you might make mistakes.

They do tell you all of this in the info you get throughout pregnancy. I dont know how far on you are but you end up with loads of stuff. The hard bit is where there is conflicting advice. I understand the weaning age is difficult as its changed so much, even between me having both my own children, and people who had babies in the past (eg MILs!) might remember previous advice.

Jesus Christ.

Yes, giving a baby a red bull and vodka IS shocking.

Giving a four year old a glass of coke is not SHOCKING. Not great, but, really. If that actually shocks you, you must have led a very sheltered life.

Once I had to leave a small but busy supermarket because a newborn baby was crying, screaming, red-faced while the Mum carried on chatting to her friend, seemingly oblivious that she had a (unhappy) child with her.

Babies and infants have sensory world of their own and a newborn will have sensory overload at around 45 minutes tops.
The poor baby I saw couldn't handle the bright lights and noise of the supermarket. They were in there a good while. I was so I had to leave, it distressed me.

Poor thing. I still think about her (the baby) and to this day I regret not saying something, anything. I feel I could have helped, or at least given the Mum the bloody deserved surprise jolt she needed.

I just become annoyed when I see parents looking after themselves, say, wearing a sunhat on a hot day for example and their poor tot goes without. This is usually but not always combined with the infant in a pram/stroller facing direct sunlight and the person pushing is oblivious to the child's discomfort. Grrrrrrrrr

If they haven't thought of a sunhat for their child I doubt that the use of suncream even crosses their mind!

So what, exactly is the issue with Aspartame?

I googled 'aspartame dangers' and got a whole bunch of woo sites, where people flaunt their ignorance of biochemistry.

small child (not sure how old, I wasn't there) in buggy drinking bottle of blue WKD. I kid not, my Mum popped to the newsagent for a paper and saw child drinking it in full view of parent. Mum came back home absolutely dumbstruck - but being my Mother she had to interfere and took bottle off child and poured it down the gutter

notletting I know a woman in her mid thirties who genuinely didnt know that she couldnt feed her twins food from birth . Luckily she mentioned this before they were born and was put right!!