Liking olives is NOT a milestone

[MizLizLemon]

Maybe it's just because I live in a naice area, but one of the most frequent boasts I hear, alongside the usual ones about reading levels and musical/sporting abilities, is that someone's DD or DS loves olives, which I frankly find really odd (not the child liking olives, but that it's considered something to boast about). Liking olives isn't a milestone, is it? I'm quite bed at middle class parenting, I'd never even heard of NCT until after I'd given birth, but the olives thing really puzzles me.

(Full disclosure, my DD hates olives and thinks they're the work of the devil).

I'm not sure world. Perhaps they are spirational olives?

*aspirational

Haha. I think it's on the list of targets for three-year-olds, along with recognising the Waitrose logo and singing Frere Jacques (in French, obvs).

Oh you have just described my 4yo DD. She does all this. I blame nursery :o

She loves olives, but hates most food so I am a bit surprised that she does. Her older brother likes everything and we used to be smug about what a great eater we had raised... until we had DD, the fussiest eater on the planet.

TBH yes it is pretentious but I can understand it. Your child likes olives, it means they are eating something relatively healthy and not turning their nose up at anything other than a Macdonald's chicken nugget. Boasting opportunity agogo.

But if you reply "Liking olives is NOT a milestone" that would be quite cool. Do it OP!

My dd (7) would take you down for an olive. She can't read, put her shoes on the right feet and doesn't know the days of the week though so the olive loving does me no good in the boasting arena.

my DD liked olives from an early age, it's obviously down to my superior parenting abilities and fantastic genes.

seriously though, I've never seen it as a reason to boast also not remotely middle-class

Ha ha an Asda olive. Major status anxiety…where would one who bought such a thing belong?? ;-)

Funny, I was just thinking about this. I have a friend who goes on and on about how much her 2 year old loves olives as if that makes him the best human being ever. I love them too but my son won't even think about eating one.

I think you should one up the middleclassnaiceness and start raving about how your dc asked for the latest Michael Buble(sp?) album and a 100 thread count Egyptian towel for his birthday.

Classy is just in his genes you see..

Dd loves olives and always has. It's pretty much the only fruit/veg she will eat, so gets some in a little pot for snack. I'm probably being judged daily in the playground lol!

DS won't touch them. I don't mind them, DH would eat the lot in one go. Guess what, it doesn't matter! Might put on naice accent at school tomorrow though

Or say "Olives? So 2008" and produce a jar of capers.

I have a jar of Aldi olives in my cupboard. Not even fresh and not exactly Waitrose finest. Poor old olives.

I live in a working class area. My boys are yet to reach the curry and lager milestone. I may have to move, or face embarrassment.

Maybe Australian olives aren't that classy or exotic? I don't think that's a thing here. I think the special people might eat oysters or lobsters.

I'm impressed dd eats Indian food, even really spicy stuff. I guess if we lived in India that might be less impressive.

Oh my dd likes gherkins. I'm impressed about that because they are gross. I don't know how she does it...

DS1 loved olives, hummous, goat's cheese and all that deli-related twonkery but the thing that really floated his boat was pickled beetroot! Not a lot of MC points there and his nappies had to be seen to be believed! ( Finger of blame swings Granddad-wards ... )

I dont eat olives so I dont expect my PFB will be given them and will clearly miss the milestone.

I do naice ham though?!

I'm 36 and have yet to meet the tea drinking milestone. I've been disowned by my parents.

A child eating olives would definitely be seen as precocious in my town (nb:DS doesn't like them! He likes crisps!). I overheard a woman at playgroup who was looking at a dish of dry red lentils to stick onto pictures say "what are these? Lentils? I don't have posh stuff like that in my house" so maybe liking lentils is a milestone too. (DS doesn't like them. Again, he prefers crisps.)

this is funny cause i went to a mummy meet recently where, i got told oh my ds loves olives we never had that when we where small type of thing.

i just vaguely nodded cause i don't eat them and neither does my dc.

it did seem like a bit of a boast to me

We laughed about DS's olive addiction simply because it seemed to be such an odd thing for a toddler to love so much. It never occurred to me that it might be construed as boastful

I have one olive eating dd and two who don't. My youngest dd stole an olive from my dads plate once and stuffed it in her mouth before either of us could tell her it wasn't a grape... Her face was priceless

I hate olives - they are on my list of 5 foods to avoid at all costs .

I don't like them so I don't buy them, therefore DD hasn't tried one. She likes curry though, which I hated as a child, so it's possible she would be a very accomplished olive eater .

I, however, am as common as muck.

Haha I don't think it is, but I hope so as DS started liking them as soon as he could nick them

We aren't anywhere near being even slightly middle class either

This has reminded me of the 4 year old I used to babysit for; she would do anything for an olive. It was a great bargaining tool. "If you eat your broccoli, you have an olive. If you eat your carrots as well, you can have two olives." "No, don't hit your sister or you can't have an olive after lunch."

my ds loves olives and it's one of the few things he's never gone off of.

i don't see it as a boastable thing BUT it's bloody handy as they just sit in a jar in the fridge and a handful of them can be stuck on any and every meal and snack along with a few chunks of cucumber and i can convince myself he's eating healthily

incidentally it is tomato that is the work of the devil!