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Original poster

To be horrified at an 18mth old drinking actimel?

147 replies

shootfromthehip · 17/01/2009 21:59

Was at playgroup the other day and one of the LOs sat down for her snack to be given some fruit, a biscuit and an Actimel as her drink.

Am I missing something cos I can't think of one single reason why a perfectly healthy 18mth old should be having one of these?

So, AIBU?

OP posts:
LucyJones · 17/01/2009 22:17

well the mum was there too and an older child
still she didn't notice when baby put his hand in her mug of coffee and drew it towards him
she did cuddle him when he cried (without knowing why he was crying)

aye yes 'Spoons does a great brekkie Aitch

expatinscotland · 17/01/2009 22:17

wetherspoons is beyond rank.

LucyJones · 17/01/2009 22:18

yes but cheap in these dire times

wotulookinat · 17/01/2009 22:18

My DS sometimes has a sip of my beer tea.

fannybaggierthanboygeorgesanus · 17/01/2009 22:18

I remember my friend and her family used to go to the Little Chef on a Sunday for their breakfast. I was so of her.

Aitch · 17/01/2009 22:19

i love a good fried brekkie.

do we have wetherspoons up here, expat?

wotulookinat · 17/01/2009 22:19

In my pre-parent days I loved the old 'spoons. Cheap booze and quiz machine = happy evening out for me!

onepieceofbrusselssprout · 17/01/2009 22:19

Is this going to be one of these threads where the op posts something that she thinks is fairly lighthearted, forgetting that AIBU can get a bit harsh, then pops off unsuspectingly for 10 minutes to make a cup of tea? Then when he/she returns it is a bit of a to see how many replies.

I did this the other night with a thread that I should never have started. When I got back there were 20 replies to my half joking op.

Aitch · 17/01/2009 22:19

yowza, fannie. that is a name and a half.

Guadalupe · 17/01/2009 22:19

Well, I wouldn't give one but wouldn't be horrified to see it.

BabyBaby123 · 17/01/2009 22:20

YABU (and you need to get out more....)

Original poster
shootfromthehip · 17/01/2009 22:20

Okay I would appear to have caused some outrage in my choice of the word horrified- to be more accurate I was not 'horrified' but merely dismayed and am now thoroughly chastised

The LO in question was not ill and her Gran explained that the health benefits were the reasoning for her having it. I just felt dismayed that a healthy LO is taking a probiotic that is unnecessary.

And I do have far too much time on my hands...that is why I am on MN!

I am more than willing to accept that IABU if that is the consensus , I just had to ask if it was just me- presumably the point of AIBU n'est pas?

OP posts:
compo · 17/01/2009 22:21

oy fannie, are you Tina Malone?

WilfSell · 17/01/2009 22:21

Aitch, my now 17mo (BLWer) munched happily on a bit of Evil Empire sausage mcmuffin this morning < Official Excuse: they were hungry on way to Chester Zoo, breakfast having been at 6am...>

The perfect finger food?

CuddlysBumLooksBigInThis · 17/01/2009 22:21

I read somewhere that these sorts of drinks are not suitable for children under 3.

I don't know why but I would be a bit about giving them to a baby too.

Perhaps we need to find out the facts.

fannybaggierthanboygeorgesanus · 17/01/2009 22:22

Road testing it Aitch. Am usually pgwithnumber3 and after a thread discussing what name I should have once DD3 arrives and can no longer be known as pgwithnumber3, this one won the vote Just road testing it. Bit too much for little old me though and won't last past tonight.

expatinscotland · 17/01/2009 22:22

i know there's no wetherspoons round these parts, aitch, but there was one about five minutes walk from our old place in Edinburgh, and i' walk by it daily on my way into work and the odour of stale beer and vomit would waft over the scent of diesel.

it was enough to put me off the place entirely and that was without having to pass by all the jakeys hanging round the doorway there early doors smoking.

boak.

Aitch · 17/01/2009 22:22

i have no fucking idea what a sausage mc muffin is, wilf...

GrimbleTheResourceful · 17/01/2009 22:22

oh no, I liked "horrified", it was so much more fun than "dismayed", dismay is dull

fannybaggierthanboygeorgesanus · 17/01/2009 22:22

compo - I am Scouse!

Guadalupe · 17/01/2009 22:23

The carpets are enough to put you off the food, super combo deal or not.

moondog · 17/01/2009 22:23

I think anyone who is a big enough tit to drink those ridiculous drinks (whatever age they are) is a blethering idiot.

Like we all couldn't cope without them.

onepieceofbrusselssprout · 17/01/2009 22:23

We went to Wetherspoons for brekkie a while back. 2 things put me off. When dh went to pay they swiped his card once and it wasn't accepted. The staff member refused to try and swipe it again or even to put the number in manually. She told dh he had to walk to the cashpoint.

Then we discovered that although they are happy to open at 9am, they don't feel the need to clean the loos very often. Clearly a number of customers had enjoyed a long evening of drinking and the loos had a lot of evidence of this.

My pregnancy sickness at the time didn't particularly enhance this experience.

Aitch · 17/01/2009 22:23

i'm a burger king gal, i have it my way.

ooh ooh a name change! tell us what you are like, pgwighno3.

expatinscotland · 17/01/2009 22:23

1 sausage mcmuffin+2 hashbrowns+1 large Irn Bru = no more hangover

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