I hate to be judgmental...

[conuly]

No, wait, I don't. Strike that, nevermind.

Sometimes, lemme tell you, visiting the children's museum is like an exhibition in "How to not feed children".

Lunch for your toddler (under two years) should not consist of a rice crispie treat and (for dessert) a bag of little chocolate chip cookies. Oh, and juice. (The dad had soda.) This is what they'd packed - it wasn't that they arrived and found there was nowhere to buy food but the vending machines.

This happens once or twice, nobody notices. But when I'm coming in week after week, and seeing the same people coming in week after week (some of them several times a week, like us), and their kids are eating junk all the time (and little kids!), I just... I don't know how people do that. Sheesh, I have a healthy appetite for junk food too, but not as a precedence over real food, and I don't inflict my diet on helpless children, either.

(On a similar note, when your kid isn't even old enough to be crawling, I do hope that brown stuff in the bottle isn't soda, because that's just gross. I'm trying to figure out what kind of juice is dark brown, but I'm not thinking of anything. Somebody, tell me it's medicine or some obscure brand of formula or something.)

Comments

[kayt-arminta.livejournal.com]

If the family is Turkish, might be tea. I saw parents do that.... besides, wouldn't cola be too fizzy to make sense in a bottle? Wouldn't the child get nothing but foam?

[conuly]

I don't know. I've heard of people doing that.

All I know is that it was something brown in the bottle.

[movealongx.livejournal.com]

No. A few months back I saw a woman at Burger King giving her between 9-12 month old daughter Orange Fanta. It was fizzy for a minute, then settled down. 8 full ounces of Orange Fanta for someone under the age of a year. I could be wrong on the age, but she didn't look very big, and she looked like she could barely pick up the french fries between her thumb and finger.

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

Prune juice, perhaps?

[conuly]

That's brown, then?

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

Brownish, I think, but don't quote me!

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

Just Googled for a picture, and yes, it is brown, slightly lighter in shade than coca cola, but looks a lot like it without bubbles.

[conuly]

Interesting. Mind, it still doesn't belong in a young baby's bottle.

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

This is true. But the idea of a baby being given soda is even worse. :-( Some people shouldn't have kids.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Well Ted is bigger but...

Apparently in school he can only eat crunchy textures...and they wind up giving him cereal, crackers, cookies for lunch.

He even refuses food he eats at home or restaurants. It's weird because with the tons of evals we go thru with him, they keep asking if he has food texture issues and I always say no but I found out this week he does, in school.

I'd say maybe there is the possibility the kid has texture issues but you're right, I keep seeing stupid food choices over and over and over again. At least if my kid had that I would aim for granola bars/cereal bars which could do the crunch thing without being RICE CRISPY TREATS which are just complete junk and I avoid them unless they are requested. (i.e. I wont buy them when I shop for the family alone.)

[conuly]

I can see textural issues. That's something I can easily believe in. I don't see, though, that this requires the world's unhealthiest foods. So, totally agree with your comment here :)

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

My husband told me that his younger brother would get coffee in his bottle (babysitter would give him heavily milked and sugared coffe and he'd slurp it right down). Soda doesn't foam if it's cut 50/50 with water. Chocolate milk, maybe?

[shenya.livejournal.com]

I was at an auction the other day and there was a family with two children who looked under five (one was in a stroller) and they were each passed bars of chocolate to chew on... and the one the little boy got was disturbingly large... even if that was white (and therefore 'milk') chocolate. *rolls eyes* Oh.. and then a can of fizzy drink (soda, pop, whatever)

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Oooooh you're making my head hurt. :-( Poor kids.

[conuly]

It made my teeth hurt, and my stomach too!

[kayt-arminta.livejournal.com]

If the family is Turkish, might be tea. I saw parents do that.... besides, wouldn't cola be too fizzy to make sense in a bottle? Wouldn't the child get nothing but foam?

[conuly]

I don't know. I've heard of people doing that.

All I know is that it was something brown in the bottle.

[movealongx.livejournal.com]

No. A few months back I saw a woman at Burger King giving her between 9-12 month old daughter Orange Fanta. It was fizzy for a minute, then settled down. 8 full ounces of Orange Fanta for someone under the age of a year. I could be wrong on the age, but she didn't look very big, and she looked like she could barely pick up the french fries between her thumb and finger.

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

Prune juice, perhaps?

[conuly]

That's brown, then?

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

Brownish, I think, but don't quote me!

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

Just Googled for a picture, and yes, it is brown, slightly lighter in shade than coca cola, but looks a lot like it without bubbles.

[conuly]

Interesting. Mind, it still doesn't belong in a young baby's bottle.

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

This is true. But the idea of a baby being given soda is even worse. :-( Some people shouldn't have kids.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Well Ted is bigger but...

Apparently in school he can only eat crunchy textures...and they wind up giving him cereal, crackers, cookies for lunch.

He even refuses food he eats at home or restaurants. It's weird because with the tons of evals we go thru with him, they keep asking if he has food texture issues and I always say no but I found out this week he does, in school.

I'd say maybe there is the possibility the kid has texture issues but you're right, I keep seeing stupid food choices over and over and over again. At least if my kid had that I would aim for granola bars/cereal bars which could do the crunch thing without being RICE CRISPY TREATS which are just complete junk and I avoid them unless they are requested. (i.e. I wont buy them when I shop for the family alone.)

[conuly]

I can see textural issues. That's something I can easily believe in. I don't see, though, that this requires the world's unhealthiest foods. So, totally agree with your comment here :)

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

My husband told me that his younger brother would get coffee in his bottle (babysitter would give him heavily milked and sugared coffe and he'd slurp it right down). Soda doesn't foam if it's cut 50/50 with water. Chocolate milk, maybe?

[shenya.livejournal.com]

I was at an auction the other day and there was a family with two children who looked under five (one was in a stroller) and they were each passed bars of chocolate to chew on... and the one the little boy got was disturbingly large... even if that was white (and therefore 'milk') chocolate. *rolls eyes* Oh.. and then a can of fizzy drink (soda, pop, whatever)

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Oooooh you're making my head hurt. :-( Poor kids.

[conuly]

It made my teeth hurt, and my stomach too!