Giving an under 2 haribo!

[Sadbri]

Okay so I'm almost sure I'm not being unreasonable. My little girl attends a nursery and is in the baby room. Yesterday I was given a small pack of Haribo from a member of staff. They told me it's a gift from one of the children as they've turned 2 and has gone up to the next room.
I'm sorry correct me if I'm wrong but who gives out haribo as a gift in a baby room! Cake, biscuits I can understand but small sweets which a little one can easily choke on seems silly. Am I being a bit of a snowflake mum or is this normal? X

[HildaZelda]

Never mind the Haribo. I'm more concerned about the fact that a 'child' gives a 'gift' to other children when moving up to the next room.
When did this become a thing?!

[Thesnobbymiddleclassone]

You're being a bit OTT. Some parents do let their kids have them and yes at 2. The parent sending them in was being nice. If you don't want your child to have them then don't give them. End of.

[SoyDora]

Mine don’t get chance to steal grapes before they’re chopped! I get them out of the fridge, put them on the work top (that they can’t reach), chop them and put them back in the fridge.

[bumblebee39]

OMG gave my son his first haribo today and he nearly choked... Never again xx

[feesh]

I’m in the Middle East and there is a ridiculously annoying culture here of kids being sent home from school and nursery with sweets and crap to celebrate birthdays. It really annoys me and I would have hoped that it wouldn’t happen in the UK.

OP I am with you - I would never in a million years think that this is appropriate in the baby room. I think there is a massive problem internationally with kids eating too much sugary crap and I think it’s responsible for a growing number of health issues.

I’m not saying my kids never get sweets - of course they do - it’s just this creep into daily diets and being perceived as ‘treats’ which annoys me. Sugar is bad for their teeth, their immune system and their overall weight and health.

My 17 month old is my third child and although I am definitely more relaxed about what he eats, compared to the others, he’s never had a haribo or similar.

The more enlightened nurseries here only allow you to send fruit in for birthdays - thankfully it’s fairly easy to buy pretty spectacularly arranged fruit platters here.

[GreenMeerkat]

I hate the damn things and my DD is almost 5. She's always coming home with them from school as it's been someone's birthday. Sticky, sugary horrible things.

[DrWhy]

I’ve steered clear of haribo and similar for my 2 year old because of the choking risk. They wouldn’t form a seal like grapes but they just seem about the shape, size and texture that could get pretty well stuck.

[Devillanelle]

I don't really buy grapes either, plenty of other fruit out there that won't potentially kill them.

[BlackberryandNettle]

I also don't buy grapes as there is a chance the kids could get the bag and start scoffing them before cutting. Also informed on a first aid course of how lethal they are, as well as balloons if inhaled.

The little tiny packets of haribo, I don't think contain any major choking risk shapes/sizes. Sugar wise, it's a tiny packet. Plus nursery gave them directly to parents. I'd have been fine with it.

[angelikacpickles]

You can cut grapes you know?

[3luckystars]

Yes I'm serious about the grapes. I did a course and was told us when an ambulance driver gets a call with someone choking on a grape, they know they will be dead before they get there. You can't move it.

Someone of any age can choke on a grape. I banned them completely because the toddler could steal them before I had a chance to cut the up. I know you might think I'm over reacting but they are absolutely lethal.

[Sadbri]

Thanks for all your responses. Funnily enough I work with children so pretty layer back about most things and will give my LO pretty much anything.
But with this being my first I just didn't know at what age you'd give a toddler chewy sweets. I still cut up most foods for my little girl such as grapes, large dried fruit, basically anything circular!
But glad I'm not the only one who thinks sweets for a young toddler is a little silly!

[QOD]

We broke up werthers originals for dd at Nannas as Nanna always offered then.
May possibly have done it until dd was quite a bit over 2 yrs old
Probably about 7 years old haha

[Thisreallyisafarce]

Grapes are completely banned for everyone in the house.

Are you being serious?

[3luckystars]

My daughter ate a peat briquette at that age..

I don't give my 2 year old jellies. Grapes are completely banned for everyone in the house.

[Wenttoseainasieve]

I wouldn't give them to a two year old, whether or not they were my second or my 'PFB'. So patronising, that 'I guess this is your first OP?'...maybe they just don't think it is necessary to feed a two year old child that sort of crap! Guess it makes people feel better about what they are feeding their kids.

I would let my four year old eat a few though probably.

[straightjeans]

She gave the sweets to you, not your child. Don't see the issue.

[Sashkin]

I wouldn’t - I don’t think much to them from a dental point of view (too sticky), I’m vegetarian so don’t think much to them from that point of view, and at under 2 I imagine they’d be difficult to chew (maybe DS is just lazy, but he spits stuff like that out after a while because he gets bored of chewing it).

But I wouldn’t be shocked at parents making a different decision to me. One woman in my baby group weaned her son on chicken legs. I was pretty surprised he managed to eat them with no teeth, but he did it.

[PippilottaLongstocking]

YANBU, whilst they didn’t physically give them to the child they were obviously intended for the child, definitely seems like an odd choice.

[Starlight345]

I have a dc aged 11 as they make him aggressive and unreasonable . No idea what is in them . However he lives in a world where Haribo’s are given for many things . I just swap them for something he can eat .

I think we have to find a way through other people’s parenting choices

[Givemeyourbunsandyourbiscuits]

Going again at the grain here which I'm surprised about.
YANBU, they are a choking hazard and I would never give them to my 2.5 year old. Have also been shocked at the crap that gets sent home from nursery and they crap that they feed the babies.

[InertPotato]

It wouldn't be my first choice for an under-2, but the nursery gave them to you - not her.

[CircleofWillis]

I’ve not I”be

[CircleofWillis]

NotUmbongo I’m even more embarrassing than you. I’’be only just started letting my 5 year old have the firmer gummy sweets like Haribo and I make her sit down where I can see her while she eats them. For me it is the choking risk rather than the sugar intake I’m worried about.

[agirlhasnonameX]

@Camomila you can never go wrong with paw patrol ;)
DD loves kinder eggs and the plastic crap little toys so she will be happy with some of them I think.