...To think Coleen Rooney is an idiot for giving her TWO year old son a can of diet pepsi to drink

[MsPaperbackWriter]

poor Kai Rooney has been pictured sipping a can of diet coke...

Does anyone actually think this is ok?! What was Coleen thinking? Silly girl.

Put your DCs diet up, we'll have a judge of that.

'role model for mums'

Oh fuck off

Who cares really?

bloody hell, she must be mad. giving a toddler caffeine ?!

well that italics attempt was not exactly an unmitigated success, was it?

she is a role model though like it or not

Why

What, a role model for motherhood? So people look at her as someone to emulate re raising children? I don't think so.

good job OP wasnt waking past the pub garden today as my son had a sip of my lager!

What is she a role model of?

I think that it's good they show her giving this to Kai, it should put other young mums off doing it, tbh.

Yes, she is a role model because all the really thick great british mums will look at pictures of Kai sipping from a can and think "OMG I can give Chardonnay/Fosters diet coke as a drink....what a great idea".

Really ?

Personally, I don't see any harm. A little bit isn't exactly going to do him any harm at his age.

I did however get VERY annoyed when I found out a family member had given my then 7 month old some Coke. And gave him a few of her salt covered Mc Donalds chips. Neither necessary given the fact I had provided food and a beaker. A few words were exchanged that day...

She is in the public eye by dint of being married to a footballer, and also is some kind of ghastly fashion guru. So yes a role model for those who like to wear polyester Roberto Cavalli knock-offs, perhaps, but as she has not to my knowledge ventured down the sainted motherhood advice path (a la Tess Daly, Myleene et al) I don't think she is holding herself up as a role model for motherhood.

That said, I am far from being a fan, but it sounds like she comes from a loving family and is probably a perfectly good mother. Letting your child have a swig of coke doesn/t make you the antichrist.

I've been given tea since I was a small baby both have large amounts of caffiene.

Fucking hell now it's 'young mums' who are thick and would have thrown coke down their baby's throats before this scandal was publicised.

This might be a bit off topic but reminds me of yesterday when me, dp and 14 month DS popped into an American style milkshake cafe yesterday. You know the places where they also sell American soda and boxes of Lucky Charms for £8.00. Another family with a DS same age as ours was in there too. I saw mum give her DS a lucky charms/marshmallow sweet bar. Then started spooning in mouthfuls of the chocolate icecream milkshake thing.

Meanwhile, DP who had his back to them and didn't see them was talking to DS "here's your water. You don't want none of this full of sugar crap. It will make you fat and we would need to brush your teeth when we get home."

I really wanted to say 'stfu' to DP as I didn't want the other family to think we were judging them. Although I don't really agree with the amount they gave their child, it's none of our business and I really wish I could have shut DP up! (He's a bit of a fitness/healthy eating freak. Yet it was his idea to go in the cafe in the first place!)

Poor Poor Poor Poor Kai. I wonder if it should be reported to Social Services?

I would imagine she was hoards of photographers following her every move and they wet their pants with delight when they saw him with it.

I just love the insinuation that people - whatever their age - aren't intelligent enough to decide for themselves what to offer their children by way of refreshment, get0rf.

I've just snorted full fat coke at the thought of Colleen Rooney being a role model!

Me too mrsvamos

There are hordes of uneducated young mothers across the land who are pouring all the bottles of coke down the drain because they have JUST LEARNED from this publicity that giving coke to a baby is a bad idea.

(I just meant toddlers are manic enough without caffeine added into the mix btw, I couldn't give a shiny shit what she does, poor woman can't do anything without being photographed and criticized)

I pity him, he may have a lavish multi millionaire lifestyle and two loving parents but that means NOTHING now that his lips have touched The Coke.

Are they really ? get0rf

Bloody hell, what a waste.

do mums these days really have role models??

falls off chair laughing at the nonsense of it all .....