to think my mum is missing a few sandwiches from her picnic?

[WestieMamma]

I love my mum but I think she's seriously lost the plot. She's visiting at the moment and is a bit upset that I won't let my son have any of the chocolate she brought him. She thinks I'm being PFB and a little bit won't harm him and he'll enjoy it. I think she's out of her tree.

My son is 8 weeks old !

I thought your sentence was going to end at the number 8, but no! You added weeks in to the mix... Argh your mum!

Though you may end up with a rather large hoard of chocolate before too long if you're not careful, you may have to eat it yourself - or save it up for DS future birthdays.... :)

Rofl. Good luck with getting her to last out till six months before giving him solids!

My mum was obsessed with mashed potato and gravy (ie bisto!) as an ideal weaning food and always did that hurt but stoical expression that her generation do so well when I suggested that perhaps the potato would be OK but bisto...??

Dread to think how old I was before I had my first taste of bisto! 3 weeks maybe, if I was lucky?

One (bonkers) family member bought DD2 an easter egg last year. She was 10 weeks old at Easter. We also had a selection box bought for DS for his first Christmas. Being a december baby he was 3 weeks old...
Said family member was rather put out when she found out we ate the lot, who the hell gives a 3 week old a Mars Bar??

I wonder how long it is reasonable to continue eating chocolate bought for your children? A year, five years, eighteen?

She's bonkers. Never mind short of a sandwich she's missing the whole picnic.

SDT for as long as you can get away with it!

My MIL always bought the DC chocolate from birth so they didn't feel left out. I blame her for the size of my stomach

However I was once told of a toddler that fed his newborn sibling chocolate - "no wonder he keeps crying if you don't give him chocolate"