To be horrified at giving a 3 yr old crisps, chocolate biscuits, cheesy bites...

[starofastorath]

....at 10 in the morning? After having sugary breakfast cereals?

[Badvoc]

Blimey I must be being judged 6 ways from Sunday wrt ds2!!
We went to a local cafe for lunch last week and ds1 had jacket potato and beans and ds2?
White bread toast with butter....3 lots!
Ds2 soberly informed the waitress that "we aren't allowed white bread at home"
My son thinks white bread is a treat!!
:(

[PickledInAPearTree]

I think you should

Mind Your Own Business

To be honest.

[LuluMai]

Horrified? Really that strong a reaction? You must live a very sheltered life op.

[trixymalixy]

Is the child underweight? Could it be she is trying to get calories in him whatever it takes. That's what it sounds like to me from you saying that the child was offered 3 things before they would eat.

DS is to have pudding after every meal to try to get more calories into him due to a restricted diet. I'm sure some people would be about that.

[SPsFanjoIsAsComfyAsAOnesie]

Come join me in bad parenting hell everyone!

[LuluMai]

At work today op I heard about a case of a woman who was a prostitute and would have sex with her punters in front of her young son. That is horrifying and bad parenting. Giving a child chocolate is not.

[PickledInAPearTree]

Do you get chocolate biscuits there? If so I'm in.

Just don't send me to the place you get rice cakes.

[ClaimedByMe]

My dc are 7 & 9 they have always eaten sugary chocolate cereal, they are healthy, still alive and have all their teeth, they eat a healthy balanced diet, I want an easy start to my day and crap cereal makes happy dc which makes a happy me!

[usualsuspect]

It's discusting!!!!

[PickledInAPearTree]

Coco pops = devils droppings

[Goldenbear]

I wouldn't be horrified but my standards have slipped considerably and with DD- DC2 who is 21 months, I'm finding I'm much slacker about snacks being healthy. For instance, she had some M&S Disco biscuits at 11 this morning. In my defence she was really cold and upset. I want her and my DS (5) to have less biscuits (don't have much chocolate) i feel incredibly shit at my ineptness in this area.

Of course 3 is very different to 21 months and they tend to know the difference between a rice cake with chocolate and chocolate for instance but still perhaps a hit excessive.

[fairylightsandtinsel]

can I have a seat on the "bad parenting" step then? DS is 3.5. Up before 6am usually and can have 2-3 weetabix for brek, but will want a snack by mid-morning. I can offer him apples and oranges, but he won't eat them. Raisins, cheese and biscuits maybe. When we pick them him from CM he sometimes also has a biscuit in the car. Call SS now!!

[SorryMyLollipop]

As the OP has not mentioned her own DC, I suspect she may not have any.

[SminkoPinko]

yabu. cheesy bites and chocolate biscuits are delicious.

[Kiriwawa]

DS is 6YO and under 3 stone. If I coul get him to eat sugary cereal, crisps and chocolate biscuits of a morning, I'd be thrilled

[Tee2072]

Yes another good point! 6am I am not worrying about nutrition. I'm worrying about a cup of coffee and 10 minutes of peace to drink it.

[perceptionreality]

YABU

Of all the things you could be horrified about, you decide to post a thread about this?

[apostropheuse]

You should write for the tabloid press.

Sensationalist headline followed by non-story.

The child was offered those things, but took only ONE of them.

The chocolate biscuit that was consumed wasn't an illegal drug!

[Goldenbear]

Yes, the other thing is that it could be a feeding up thing. DS is not just a rack of ribs but you can see too many bones he is 2.9 stone and 6 in June. He was on 75 percentile when born and was like that until school. I panicked and am constantly giving him proper desserts. Things like banana and custard, cake and custard, Ice cream, pancakes etc. Maybe she is trying to add more calories the quick way?

[OpheliasWeepingWillow]

My dd's nutritionist told me to give her whatever she would eat. Anything. Biscuits, wotsits, cake, goose fat, roast swan.

Judge away. Biscuits ahoy here.

Jeez.

And as for the person who said to me their similar centile dd to mine has healthy food - good for you. Whatever.

[BinksToEnlightenment]

Was the chocolate biscuit thrown down to him after he was pushed into the cellar?

Because that really would be totally unreasonable.

[usualsuspect]

Pork pies

[SPsFanjoIsAsComfyAsAOnesie]

Apost She could pose for picture for the article looking sad holding a biscuit

[Badvoc]

Ds1 was under a paed for a few years due to childhood asthma (which he has now grown out of)
He was a father of 4 himself and was really helpful and down to earth wrt diet and food.
He advised using packet baby foods as - according to him - legally they must contain a certain amount of vitamins and minerals.
He also told me not to worry what ds1 ate, but just to make sure he ate regularly and highly calorific foods if possible.
I wish he could see him now tucking into 9 pancakes of a morning! :)