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To ask when you are supposed to stop cutting up grapes
1Veryhungrycaterpillar · 18/06/2013 22:55
V dumb question really but I still do this for my eldest (5) and my Dzh laughs at me, it's mainly because they are for packed lunch and I can't trust her not to rush her lunch at school
OwlinaTree · 18/06/2013 23:05
When your child graduates from university, they have the traditional grape grab, where each graduate grabs a grape from the great grape bowl placed at the exit.
This symbolises the new found freedom of whole grape eating. Many people commemorate this day by a) putting framed pictures of grape day on the wall of their lounge and b) drinking the juice of the grape.
Hope this helps 
ChippingInWiredOnCoffee · 18/06/2013 23:12
I wouldn't even stop then for a school lunch tbh. It only take a child to laugh at what someone else is doing to choke on a grape and choking is silent - not the big drama they make out of it on the tele. That much drama and the person isn't actually choking...
While we are about it - do you know what an even worse hazzard is and one that most people allow small children to eat?? Marshmallows. If a child chokes on one of those you are very unlikely to be able to dislodge it :( I only found out about that recently and I find it a bit scary... and I'm normally pretty blase about pretty much everything!
givemeaboost · 18/06/2013 23:12
I don't see that argument, ive known a kid to die chocking on a sasuage, should i therefor be cutting up everything that goes into their mouths until theyre adults?! if they learn from young(blw) they they learn to chew stuff from very early on-ime anyway.
LauraPashley · 18/06/2013 23:13
I now only give dd (5) grapes at home, as she freaks out if we cut them, but I can't stand the thought of her eating whole ones unsupervised 
. A wee boy choked on one at an after school club recently and died- I always picture them running around/jumping about while eating etc. I make her sit down at the table with grapes!
nohalfmeasures · 18/06/2013 23:13
My Ds2 swallowed one whole when he was 8 ("to see if he could") It got stuck halfway down his oesophagus and he had to retch it back up. It was very painful and gave him a real fright. he won't try that again.
I can't remember ever cutting up grapes, apart from when they were just starting with finger food & needed to get a better grip on them.
HorryIsUpduffed · 18/06/2013 23:14
I think it is at around age five that the trachea stops being a funnel shape and takes on the adult cylinder shape.
I always cut or at least slit DS(2)'s grapes, and cherry tomatoes if he hasn't stolen them out of the fridge himself and shoved them straight in his gob. I will not however be bothering to do so for the grapes at DS1's 5th birthday party this weekend.
MrsTerryPratchett · 19/06/2013 03:30
I cut up for DD who is two. Sometimes I give her a whole one if they are at a friend's house with no knife handy but stern, "bite" first and she does. I've been scaring myself with pop corn lately. I was letting her share if we had it. Now, I find it is horribly dangerous.
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