Grrr, bad parents!

I was at the shops today and outside the bakery was a family with about 4 kids (youngest was probably a baby about 1). One of the other kids started giving the baby a drink of V and the parents just stood their watching! I can't believe there are such idiots out there!!! That poor baby!

Good Lord, me and DH were shocked when I guy I worked with gave his 7 year old V, let alone a one year old.
I wonder if that baby sleeps through

My FIL used to try and give Jake coke when he was 6 weeks. my MIL went nuts at him....and then asked me to tell FIL that Jake had a dairy allergy as she later caught FIL trying to feed him a banana smoothie.

No, there was no problem, as there was flavoured milk some days and standard milk others. Just dependended on what the mother had in her fridge on the day.

ETA: She stopped doing it after the director of the centre had a word to her about sending the flavoured stuff.

Edited by joshierocks

And here was me feeling guilty that Elle ate a couple of Poppa Jacks yesterday!

Poor kid! Soft drinks, especially dangerous ones like that should not be given to kids, it's just common sense.

I suppose on some level those parents think they are being kind by giving their kids those "treats". I know I found myself feeling "sorry" for Elle when we were trialling no gluten and she couldn't have biscuits and yet in reality bicuits are far from essential to a kids happiness. It is us as parent who condition our kids to thinking that those things are special and desirable. I guess it depends on how we think...we are all so different so what seems horrendous to one parent seems kind to another. Sigh.

Thinking on this some more, my sister was blind and disabled and lived in an IHC home.   The part of her brain that signalled that she was full didn't work and she had been conditioned by the staff to want chips, pies etc.   She had major nutritional deficiencies in her later years and needed high quality foods and yet the staff TRUELY, truely felt they were being kind by giving her those junk food items. In reality, it was cruel as she would pack on the pounds and yet still have the nutritional deficiencies.

Although we know that these types of foods are bad we can not assume that all people have that level of understanding. What seems common sense to one person, will never even have occured to another. I know it sounds hard to believe but from my experience, through my sister, it is true.

Mind you, there are some people who have all the knowledge but choose to be negligent....

Thats horrible all these stories, a lot of people will blame the rising cost of milk etc for giving there kids soft drinks, I will not give my young child soft drinks so early.

The one thing I find annoying when at the shops is when some parents just let their kids run around the store screaming and the parents do nothing, ive nearly seen older people hit etc. That is what really annoys me.

No child, let alone adults need those addictive, high sugar drinks!!

The amount of kids that come into my work for fillings (sorry before i continue i mean under 5) and when we ask what kind of diet they have "but they only have one glass of coke a day "..wellllllll

I would like to say Caitlyn only drinks water,but unfortunatly, she loves orange juice, but she knows that she has to have a lot more water than juice a day , and the juice has to be watered down .