What age do you stop cutting up grapes ?

[Mingo2010]

At what age do you stop cutting grapes up for your child ?

I always have to laugh at the smug superiority of those who think they are somehow better for not cutting grapes.

Yes, your child will probably be fine but for me it just isn't worth the risk.

Still cutting them up for my nearly 10 year old! She claims they taste different. I say pick your battles.

My dad cuts up pears in a very specific way. He still occasionally does it for me. I’m over 40!

As long as I prepare my children's food imo they need cut up, the same with sausages etc as too many horror stories of children choking.

I'm in my 70s and live alone so I always cut mine up. Cut them lengthways.

I still cut them for all D.C., but my sister went blue from choking on a rogue werthers original at 11 so probably over-wary.

Good grief - I'm clearly a super negligent parent. Probably stopped about age 2. Both mine are still here, now aged 3 1/2 and 7. No grape related fatalities, I'm pleased to say.

I’m 26 and I still do it because I’m terrified of choking!

Oldest is 7 and still do it. when he was a toddler I gave them whole not realising the danger until I'd seen about a child choking to death on one. The danger I put him in fills me with terror. Il probably cut them up till there teenagers

I cut them up for everyone just cos it looks more! I stopped for my 7 yo this year and told him to take small bits then he said he liked them better chopped up so thats fine with me!!!

Bites even!

I still cut them up for my 9 year old but I don’t often buy them because of the faff. My dad worked with someone’s who’s grandson choked to death on one - he was 8. Not sure what the fuss or discussion over them is? Kids can choke so you cut them? What’s more to say.

SummerInSun Good for you 🙄 Some parents haven’t been so lucky have they?

I stopped about 7 but watch DS like a hawk with grapes now and he knows to bite it first.

A wee boy locally died choking on a grape at 6ish which really plays on my mind.

I cut them for pack lunches (6 & 10 year olds) but at home just make them sit down and remind them to bite.
I also cut cherry tomatoes and hotdogs though for under 5s and squish any particularly large blueberries if giving them to a baby.

It takes seconds and reduces a risk so no reason not to.

SummerInSun. It might be a time to start again, especially for your youngest.

@SummerInSun you might as well go up to a parent who has lost a child to choking and say “na na na na my child survived longer than yours”

I pity your kids - with a smug attitude like yours.

I never started.

I chopped them up until the kids were 8 or 9. I often still do if the grapes are part of a prepared dish , eg fruit salad, but not if just serving on their own. Can’t get worried about it as an issue though. My DH nearly choked years ago before we were married at a restaurant on some fish, a person I didn’t think to thank saved him by doing the ‘ ‘heimlich’ (not sure that’s the right name) manoeuvre. Still can’t get excited by it though, there’s so much to worry about, why choose choking?

10 and 8 and still chopping.

I might get a t-shirt 😂

It's a bit ott but it's just one of my things. DP thinks I am nuts (another danger item).

If I considered grapes such a danger I simply wouldn't serve them at all. There are so many types of fruit out there.

milk that's the thing. You don't choose it. It's not rational. I let my children swim in the sea but I don't let them eat a whole grape. Makes no sense.

@Yeahnahmum it's because of the size, and also the skin on them. Makes them wedge perfectly
Hotdog sausages also, and marshmallows

They have to have them cut at our school all the way through even year six. My son got told off in year six for not having strawberries cut up.

[quote hellofromcornwall]@SummerInSun you might as well go up to a parent who has lost a child to choking and say “na na na na my child survived longer than yours”

I pity your kids - with a smug attitude like yours.[/quote]
I take your point, it just honestly never occurred to me that cutting up grapes was supposed to last this long...

If I considered grapes such a danger I simply wouldn't serve them at all. There are so many types of fruit out there.
Grapes go down the best, one of my kids is the worst fruit eater ever and even he would get excited by grapes!!