To think that giving lemon to a baby is not funny

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Just that really - I don't understand why people think its funny. Perhaps its the hormones, but the poor little blighters trust us completely. A few people have tried to encourage me to give my 10 month old lemons to taste, AIBU to think this is a bit cruel?

Why? The expression is hilarious. What difference does it make I'd they grab it?

Cruel my ass.

Tasting sour isn't painful unless you have cuts/sores in your mouth.

If you said giving baby something spicy / v hot to taste - just for a laugh - that would be cruel.

Mine loved lemons as a baby as well.

I think it sounds hilarious...

It kept us endlessly entertained when DC1 was a baby

At what age would you give your child lemon to try, OP?

My children loved the lemon out of my soft drinks weirdly. You should see the faces my just turns one year old pulls with an ice lolley

My DS also loves lemon after acquiring the taste for it at 9 months.

It's not exactly like giving alcohol or blowing fag reek in their face OP. That would be cruel, but a lemon??

The faces they pull are very funny.

It's not cruel! My son still loves sucking lemons but he makes some hilarious faces when doing it. He's been chomping on them for quite a while now ( he is 13) so obv. Not traumatised. In fact when we moved into this house he was delighted to find a lemon tree in the garden ( as was I, for gin!)

You do know that because of this thread, lots of babies out there are about to be given a bit of lemon to taste?

yabu

I gave my 10month old chilli flavour tomatoes the other day, that was funny, as he did the whole shaking his head thing, and then he asked for more.
Must get some lemons for him to taste.

By 10months they can make it pretty clear if they don't like something, now giving to a 10week old that would be mean.

YABU, DS loves lemon and lime, has done since he tried it at about 8 months.

He did NOT like broccoli. Am I cruel for offering that

Should say he had the tomatoes because that was what we were having for dinner and they aren't actually that hot, I didn't cook them especially for the funny factor!

What's wrong with just offering tart berries or something if you want to try sour foods?

Spicy food is not cruel, mine loves spice. This thread is making me think my baby has a bodged wire somewhere.

DD2 pinched a bit of naan bread off my plate last week. The naan bread that had been dipped into a particularly nice chicken jalfrezi...
Now that was a face. Sat there with her tongue hanging out panting like a dog and necked a cupful of water. Then took another bite. Repeat until she'd eaten it all. (It wasn't even that spicy!)

My daughter and the lemon is one of our childhood classic memories. She was like Beehatch's child. She kept picking it up, sucking it pulling a face and putting it down, then immediately pulling an excited face, picking it up and sucking it, on a loop until we took the lemon away.
We didn't deliberately give her the lemon though, she was keen to have it after we'd had lemon chunks for fish or similar so someone passed her it expecting her to pull a face and put it down.

I see your lemon and I raise you a handful of chilli flakes.

*DS was 6 at the time and had been repeatedly warned to leave the pile of chilli flakes on the side of his Pad Thai alone. Which he obviously saw as a challenge.

I gave ds1 lemon, he loved it. He also still eats red onion raw.

i found it funny

A family member is always trying to get us to feed the kids lemon/coke/other assorted shite 'because it would be funny.'

I really don't get why people think it's funny. I mean I don't get offended or anything, just don't see why giving kids shite to eat, or stuff you think they'll dislike, would be funny.

Mine loved lemons at that late baby/early toddler stage. You had to keep a close eye on any soft drinks or they'd half-inch the lemon slices out of them.

DD loved lemon as a baby. I just assumed she took after her grandmother, who still eats chunks of lemon in her sixties.

DS, at 2, was sharing a plate of African food with us at a festival and his favourite was the hottest, spiciest curry on the plate. He kept asking for water between bites but he ate all of it!

I really don't see anything wrong with letting them try different flavours. Their tastes may not be the same as yours.

A group of adults sitting down going 'werrrr herrr, give it a lemon and let's have a laugh' is horrible, yes, but letting children have a taste of something that may be surprising to the is normal and not necessarily cruel. Babies often like strong tastes.

Both of mine loved lemons when they were small, I still do, it's not cruel. They make funny faces at all sorts of flavours when they experience them for the first time. I would have loved to see my older dd's face last week when she ate jam for the first time (she's 16, years not months, somewhat fussy).

the funny thing is mine grabbed my lemon out of drink and seemed to love it but i have heard its not good for kidneys or something?