to think that giving a 5.5 month old McDonalds is verging on abuse?

[Partyfops]

So a friend of mine has just posted on FB about their not yet 6 month old baby eating her first McDonalds!! FFS!!!!

This is utterly vile right???

I personally wouldn't give a young child a McDonald's but think you are being massive dramatic comparing it to abuse. Think you need a hobby or something to occupy your mind if you are getting worked up over something so insignificant.

Don't worry, I'm ignoring the professionally offended!!

Sending yourself to Coventry then, OP?

Personally I'd worry more about how the chicken was reared and killed.

Why is everyone being dramatic she obviously isn't comparing it to physical/mental abuse she is obviously just shocked by it which I am also, everyone needs to calm down I would 1000% judge someone giving a baby a McDonald it's disgusting behavior !

Err so why call it abuse and then when people disagree start dishing out the you all probably do this!

Why is everyone being dramatic she obviously isn't comparing it to physical/mental abuse

So what type of abuse is the OP comparing it to?

Here is the British law on abuse, summed up by Hedley J:

"Society must be willing to tolerate very diverse standards of parenting, including the eccentric, the barely adequate and the inconsistent. It follows too that children will inevitably have both very different experiences of parenting and very unequal consequences flowing from it. It means that some children will experience disadvantage and harm, while others flourish in atmospheres of loving security and emotional stability. These are the consequences of our fallible humanity and it is not the provenance of the state to spare children all the consequences of defective parenting. In any event, it simply could not be done."

@RoboJesus

Deliberately giving a child something that could give them health problems or premature death is abuse

^* what a load of absolutely ridiculous bollocks!

Abuse is a strong word. But I agree it's a) bloody stupid and b) poor parenting.

This really. I’d be concerned about the salt content

I wish people werent so judgemental. My youngest was "gumming" on quavers and skips until he was 2 alongside a pump that went for 12 hours over night.

We put lots of "crappy" foods in front of him to play with. Little of it went in. Some of it got smeared in his hair or shoved down his nappy.

I was regularly judged in restaurants. Once I was publicly shamed for ordering myself a salad and tipping a pile of "bite and dissolve" snacks onto his plate.

Maccies is neither the worst or the best thing you can give a kid and it's certainly not abuse.

Agreed it's not a great choice but if that kid is in a loving family and cared for then fuck it... It's just a chicken nugget.

You do you. Be an awesome parent and leave others to do it the best way they know how without being judgy. 😞

McDonald's don't provide blenders.

@NotACleverName

Premature death from a chicken nugget😂

This isn't a laughing matter, I ate a chicken nugget as a child and DIED.

Oh my god, I can't believe that happened to you as a child!! People should be more aware this can happen to anyone.
RIP hun xx

Gateway nugget 😂
FWIW my DC didn't have McDonald's until 3.5 due to a late return from holiday and it being the only thing open at the services.

Probably wouldn't give a child under 1 a mcds but the hysteria on this thread is craaaaazy.

This isn't a laughing matter, I ate a chicken nugget as a child and DIED.

I'm crying.

I work with abused children.

It's really not difficult to understand.

Baby gumming a Mcdonalds chicken nuggets as a one off or rare occurrence in the context of an otherwise healthy diet= not abuse. Not ideal, and not something I'd do with my own kids, but not abuse.

Baby eating a diet that consists entirely of crap fast food/baby not being fed enough/ being fed excessively to an extent that it poses a significant risk to their physical health = neglect, which is a form of abuse.

Since OP has only seen one photo of said child with one chicken nugget, there's no evidence of abuse here.

Thanks for posting the Hedley J judgement.

What’s more likely, having a freakish 5 m/o capable of consuming a whole Happy Meal by itself, or giving kiddo a sibling’s fry and nugget to see if they’ll gnaw on them a bit and taking a daft photo of it?

Ewitsahooman, there are similar photos of myself and my sibs, including one of my 3 y/o sister asleep at a pub table surrounded by empties (dad had a card game).

It's not abuse, it's frankly horrendous parenting. She must be as thick as two short planks to feed a baby that much salt.

I wouldn't feed that shit to my dog, let alone my DC.

Working in a supermarket I routinely saw mothers buy a can of full sugar coke, crack it open just past the till, and pour it into a bottle for their baby in a pram to suck on.

It made me want to eradicate them and their entire bloodline from existence, because the human race could use its IQ being raised by a fraction of a decimal place every now and again.

Sadly idiots are everywhere. Hey ho.

You sure it wasnt a joke?

There is hardly any salt in chicken nuggets though as quoted by a PP @TomHardysNextWife. And it’s simple to
Ask for unsalted fries.

Horrendous parenting. Christ. Hyperbole, much!
One picture on FB. Probably done for comedic effect like people tend to do on FB.
Baby approx 6 months old.It's not going to be doing much more than gum a chicken nugget or suck the end of the odd fry at that age.
As I said, never would have been something I'd have done with mine at that age as I was all about the homemade purees (seriously)
Unclenched by the time they got to be around 6 though and we shock horror go to McDs a couple of times a month now.

not going to be doing much more that should read!

Armt most fries unsalted now? I would be mightuly umprrssed if a 5.5 month old baby could manage a full happy meal , i suspect the baby just sucked on a couple of fries though

I'm a CASA for my local Children's Services agency. A CASA is a Court Appointed Special Advocate. Basically, I'm assigned a case of a child or children in care, and I spend time with them and their families, and tell the court what I've observed.

As part of my training, they said one of the most important things to remember is just because someone does things differently from what I would do them, it doesn't make them wrong or abusive. Not feeding your child is abuse. Feeding your child spoiled food is abuse. Feeding them McDonald's, while not what I would do at that age, is neither abuse nor bordering on abuse.

Comparing a chicken nugget to meth gives a whole new meaning to going cold turkey!

Have photos of dd at her own christening (so 7-8 months) chomping on the boeuf bourgignonne. It was a one-off occasion. We don't eat like that every day. And this being so, it has probably had absolutely zero effect on her general wellbeing. Baby manual note: do not feed your babies boeuf bourgignonne everday, because it would probably not be good for them.