Neighbour's kid

[claramaria]

The neighbours a few doors down from us send their child to the same school that mine attend.
A few morning recently I've seen neighbour walking kid to school (she's in Year 1) eating a packet of crisps. Seriously. At 8.30am. Maybe that's all the kid gets in the way of "breakfast". Kid is overweight (as are parents) and it upsets me to see a young child walking to school eating a packet of crisps for breakfast.
I was brought up in a culture where children eat healthy, nourishing breakfast at home (or at before school club), not crisps in the street. AIBU to find this an upsetting sight?

My son has eaten chocolate chip brioche for breakfast for the last 7 years prior to that it was wheetabix with no milk or occasionally dipped in milk (like you would dunk a biscuit in tea iyswim)

I cant get too worked up about it even the obesity I took the car to school today

Very judgemental. The kid could have had a bowl of porridge and could have acquired the crisps with their pocket money without parents' knowledge, or it could be part of an otherwise packed lunch which was dived into early.

Maybe the parents made the child get up at 4am to clean the house then sew some dresses for their online business so the crisps were actually part of her lunch ??

Who knows ?? 😁👍

my dc hasn't got autism, but is severely disabled. when they were small breakfast was a nightmare. crisps often happened.

@FunkyPhantom 🤣

It's not ideal but then neither is your nosiness and judging.

That's not an upsetting sight...have you seen the children in Afghanistan on the news recently
Now that's upsetting. A child eating a bag of crisps really isn't.

If you find that upsetting you might want to sit down for a while, don't watch the news.

Judge away, but don't internalise the issue and make it all about you.

@claramaria

I agree with you and it’s sad so many tiers think it’s ok to accept such shitty parenting

Oh wow OP hope you enjoy getting flamed

This is definitely in the "none of your business" category.

While it isn't an ideal breakfast I can think of loads of reasons why it might have happened.

@claramaria

The neighbours a few doors down from us send their child to the same school that mine attend. A few morning recently I've seen neighbour walking kid to school (she's in Year 1) eating a packet of crisps. Seriously. At 8.30am. Maybe that's all the kid gets in the way of "breakfast". Kid is overweight (as are parents) and it upsets me to see a young child walking to school eating a packet of crisps for breakfast. I was brought up in a culture where children eat healthy, nourishing breakfast at home (or at before school club), not crisps in the street. AIBU to find this an upsetting sight?

Is it cold up there, in your ivory tower OP?

It may be an extra to breakfast or a bribe to leave the house.

We don't know what is going on there.

[quote OnceuponaRainbow18]@claramaria

I agree with you and it’s sad so many tiers think it’s ok to accept such shitty parenting[/quote]
I agree too, OP. Sure, there may well be particular issues or this may just be a one-off, but it's still shitty parenting and far too common. We seem determined to normalise being fat or obese here in the UK, and it's wrong.

A 35g bag of crisps typically contains two and a half teaspoons of oil - that's 12.5ml. That's an entire litre of cooking oil every 80 days, or over 4.5 litres a year if repeated every day. In breakfast crisps. A larger 50g bag is... well you do the maths. Then there's the salt

An obese person is at higher risk of diabetes and all sorts of other auto-immune diseases not to mention the elevated risk of heart disease and cancer from all that fat. If he/she manages to survive to old age then they can look forward to chronic co-morbidities which will affect every aspect of their lives. Why do we let children do this???????

And the rest of us will pay for it in higher taxes. So it is my business thank you very much.

I’ve seen myself throwing my kids a packet of mini cheddars on the school run when they haven’t eaten their cereal/toast. Usually cause they’ve faffed about so much they’ve ran out of time, or they’ve got up so early it’s been hours since breakfast.

I’d rather they had something in the belly for the morning.

How do you know that it's breakfast, the kid could have been awake from 6 had breakfast and Now be having a packet of crisps at around 8:30.
Honestly with very fussy eaters I've learnt that so long as it's food it doesn't matter what time of the day they eat it.
If my eldest wanted last night's dinner for breakfast and cereal at teatime I learnt not to fight it. It's food at the end of the day

Are crisps really that much worse nutritionally than bog standard white toast or cereal?

Jesus my DD has been known to walk into school with left over prawn crackers hanging out if her mouth

@Yellow85

Why not throw a banana at them?

@BlueSky8

You have no idea of the situation. The child may have screamed the house down, refused breakfast, therefore running late and it was the only thing she could get into him before school. You've got no idea.

Agree

Aww I thought this was going to be a CF thread.

Are you seeing her as you drive by in your car to the school 5-10mins walk away?

@Herecomesthesun70

Jesus my DD has been known to walk into school with left over prawn crackers hanging out if her mouth

😆😆😆

When my two were young, they'd sometimes be brushing Gregg's sausage roll crumbs off their lovely private school jumpers 😆😆

Yanbu OP. You’ve not spoken to them about it. The sight upsets you. Nowt wrong with that .

Shall we stick a crack pipe in his mouth and have done with it?