When your 1 year old likes olives

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NC in case she's on here

Scrolling through the dreaded Facebook and one of my "friends" has added a picture of her kid eating a plate of salad, olives , pitta etc. with the caption, "When your 1 year old likes olives 🙌.

It really grates on me, like some weird form of mum shaming. We've just got past the stage of her doing the "13 month old" thing. She's one and so now it's this hand clappy, look at me shite. (I know, I just need to unfollow)

In the comments some people are like, wow, mine won't even try (probably feeling a bit shit that little George will only eat quavers now), and her reply is, really? We're just introducing coriander and feta

AIBU to think this mum is just intent on shaming other mums and thinks she's superior cause her kid eats olives?

What's weird about that? Mine liked (cutted up) olives at 9 months and still likes them at 14 months. He also likes a good homemade spicy vegetable curry.

Does she think it's weird?

Goodness, you're ridiculous. What a fucking reach. This person shared something she was proud of and YOU were so self absorbed you took it as a mummy shaming thing. That says more about you than anyone else.

Stop being so precious, it wasn't directed at you or any other mother, just someone simply sharing something they wanted to. Kindly get over yourself.

I didn't say it was directed at me. Doubt it, my kids are way too old for that. It just seems to be a weird trend that I don't get. It's hardly precious to think some people are ridiculous on fbook

It clearly is bragging OP or she wouldn’t have felt the need to post that caption as if her child eating olives is something special or out of the ordinary. She clearly perceives ‘kids food’ to be bland and unappealing and thinks it’s amazing her kid eats something as incredible exotic and unusual as an olive (😂)

My children spent the first 5 years of their lives in Greece - they loved olives, feta, various seafood, etc. I really don’t see what the big deal is tbh.

I am still wondering what people had to bitch about before they had facebook and the rest. Did they just make up stuff? Did they just use the smallest thing as their material? Did they just make up rumours?
How did people get offended before social media? Was playground gossips enough?

I think it's weird that everyone is saying she is "bragging". What is it to brag about ? Yes it's probably not an everyday food for a 1year old but I certainly wouldn't think it was bragging.

OP I think maybe you need to chill out a little and not see it as a negative, just a mother posting about their daughter.

And why it would annoy people that parents state the age of a child in months is another one beyond me.

FuckMNDoubleStandards, why are you getting yourself in such tizzy? Your reaction is a smidge ott.

I'd be judging her for feeding her child olives and feta as they are so high in salt.

@Quintella I expressed myself as I wished to do so just like others. Don't like it? Ignore, rather simple. Ta.

Genuine question...is it safe for 1 year olds to eat olives? Aren't they too salty? I'm currently pregnant with my first and have no idea about these things!

bourbonbiccy

I think it’s really weird that this mother thinks olives are something worth bragging about 😂 it’s not weird that people are correctly identifying her as bragging.

Exactly, just bitches being bitches.

Irony much?

It's confirmation that she is middle class, possibly hoping for upper middle.

FuckMNDoubleStandards, don't get irked just because someone responds to your rants. That's kind of how internet forums work.

Ta.

I'd much rather see posts from parents excited to feed their children olives and feta than this weird current trend of "slummy mummys" which seems to be the cool thing at the minute. The ones who are like, "Oh, if i only wash my dishes once a week, out the kids to bed early so i can drink gin, only feed my kids chicken nuggets and dont even own an iron" sort of posts that everyone seems to applaud. Why are any of those things anything to brag about?

In my experience only people who feel wobbly and a bit inadequate do bragging. Otherwise she’d just think , oh look, Jocasta likes olives.

MommaToBe2020

I guess we are just different In what we interpret as a "brag". Lots of my friends have shown me photographs of their children doing things or shared stories of them, I have never thought they were bragging, just swapping experiences and stories between parents.

I'd feel sorry for her if she's using her child to boost her self esteem.Poor child. Imagine what it will be like when her DC starts school. Anything less than 'gifted' and she'll be mortified she can't boast.
DC has a hell of a childhood to look forward to imo.

I would say that your don't serve them because of the salt content.

bourbonbiccy olives seem really normal to me and I love seeing parents posting things they’re proud of, it’s more the weird caption and that she clearly thinks olives are boast worthy or unusual in order to share with that caption. Just seems a bit like sharing how amazing it is your baby drank milk lol. Only she obviously thinks it’s something special when it really isn’t. If it was just a picture of her eating whatever and saying ‘someone’s enjoying their dinner!’ that’d be cute. But making a song and dance over olives is embarrassing

See I thought this post was going to be about a mother with a toddler who was addicted to olives who was freaking out about the chocking hazard of the child running about sneaking olives at barbecues or the high salt content or something. I really don’t get why people care so much. I hated olives as a child. Now I like them but I doubt it would make any difference at all if I didn’t.