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Original poster

To have lied about ds's diet to these Mums at a birthday party after I saw their reaction when I fed my DS some cake with icing?

77 replies

Teeheeheeheee · 22/09/2013 16:54

I gave my nearly 2 year old some cake with icing on top and a mother exclaimed:

"You're giving your son sugar?!!!!"

So I sat there and lied that I give him all sorts of junk food because he won't eat fruit or vegetables like his sister just to relish the shocked look on their faces.

Then I was asked if I thought I parented differently and was more laid back with the second child by one of them who was pregnant with her second. I said yes, because I give him every biscuit and crisp he asks for. Grin. The woman didn't talk to me properly for the rest of the time and gave me strange looks.

Am I bad?! I blame MN for giving me the confidence to do things like this :)

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Tee2072 · 22/09/2013 16:55

Good for you! Teach them to be nosy, judgemental cows!

SayCoolNowSayWhip · 22/09/2013 16:57

YABU to have not taken it further - gin at bedtime if he doesn't sleep, letting him play GTA etc..... Grin

Original poster
Teeheeheeheee · 22/09/2013 16:57

Thank you!

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phantomnamechanger · 22/09/2013 16:58

Arf! and there's not already a thread about you on here yet? Amazing!

MsUumellmahaye · 22/09/2013 16:59

should have gave him a can of lager :)

catgirl1976 · 22/09/2013 16:59
Grin

Ha Ha - brilliant and well done

Original poster
Teeheeheeheee · 22/09/2013 16:59

SayCool I thought I'd leave it at that to make it sound real! It worked!

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 22/09/2013 17:00

You are very naughty and you should go and sit on the Naughty step!

WinkGrin

Dawndonnaagain · 22/09/2013 17:01

Brilliant! Well done, you!

Finola1step · 22/09/2013 17:01

Good for you. Did you also tell them that you let him drink diet coke out of a baby's bottle?

Original poster
Teeheeheeheee · 22/09/2013 17:01

I'm also pregnant with my third so I bet they were thinking "why is she having another one if she can't feed this one properly?!!!!!" Whilst clutching their pearls!!

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TheOrcHeadKeeper · 22/09/2013 17:01

I'd have pretended to look embarrassed and said Blush well yes, I am. But only because I left his Haribo-tub at home. I'm not normally so forgetful

Grin
Onesleeptillwembley · 22/09/2013 17:02

PMSL! Don't forget all the coke he drinks because he 'doesn't like water'.

NotAnotherPackedLunch · 22/09/2013 17:03

YABU.
You didn't mention that you prefer to give him good stuff like Fruit Shoots and Greggs sausage rolls.

meisiemee · 22/09/2013 17:03

That's made me really lol! Well done Grin

mumandboys123 · 22/09/2013 17:03

oh I had that at a party once with doritos. I was on my third child at that point and some poor woman has horrified when I fed my then 8 month old a few doritos from the 'adult section' of the food table. I was backed up by a well-thought of local childminder who laughed her head off and said doritos were the least of our problems!

RobinSparkles · 22/09/2013 17:04

You gave a TWO year old CAKE, with ICING? Right, that's it, I'm calling SS? Wink

I would have liked to see the look on their faces, nosey bitches!

I wonder what they would have thought of me last weekend. It was my 30th so both my DDs (aged 6 and 2) had their fill of sausage rolls, crisps, cake etc. It's their cousin's birthday today and they're out with GPs so no doubt they'll be getting more junk!

Original poster
Teeheeheeheee · 22/09/2013 17:05

I wanted to mention he drinks coke aswell but that's when the pregnant mum literally turned her back to me and stopped talking to me!

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ubik · 22/09/2013 17:08

God wait til they're 9! At DD1's sleepover last night they consumed their own bodyweight in sweets and chocs and we got three large pizzas which were set upon like they hadn't eaten in a week!

I am a very bad parent though - I didn't notice the girls weaning DD3 on orange squash at 4 months Blush "she really likes it mummy..."

NachoAddict · 22/09/2013 17:08

Haha that is hilarious. It annoys me when people judge on a snapshot of some ones life.

youarewinning · 22/09/2013 17:08

Arf, that's brilliant Grin

minidipper · 22/09/2013 17:10

Good for you.

I remember a mum almost ripping a Mr Whippy ice cream out of my DS's hand when he was 13 months old and giving me a heartfelt lecture which I ignored. Yes he was young, but it was the first ice cream he had ever had and it was the first time he'd ever been on a beach. He loved and ate both. Grin

Unbelievably he didn't die, wasn't sick, didn't get worms in his brain or whatever she threatened would happen. His IQ didn't drop and over a decade later he can and does eat veg every day.

An un-neurotic attitude to food is good for DC. Obsessive barring of this and that is not.

Finola1step · 22/09/2013 17:17

And please don't worry about him attacking your parents or grand parents if you were not there. If he wanted to do that, he already would be doing it. He chooses you because he sees you as the soft target. He chooses to not hit them because he knows there will be consequences. He makes the choices. I know that's harsh but if you read my previous post, I can empathise with being the chosen target for your sibling to use as a punch bag. Get out.

TheOrcHeadKeeper · 22/09/2013 17:18

My mum let us have treats. I'm an ok weight as an adult & like a lot of different foods.

her very nice but very neurotic friend (wrt food) never let her daughter eat like that. She now only eats crap and is ill as a result and she's only 25.

Just saying Wink

Tee2072 · 22/09/2013 17:19

Finola, I think you're on the wrong thread.

OP next time, do hand him some squash or coke. Grin