Mothers raising the next generation of fat kids

Jesslane93

Having a rant...

I have a 14 month old son, and have so many friends around me with babies similar age. Everyday I see them posting pics on face book of there babies face covered in chocolate and cake. I am ok with 'kids' having a treat every now and than. But a 'baby' does not need that sort of food in there tiny bodies, and I feel like yelling at these stupid mothers and telling them to stop feeding there kids diabetes. Babies need real foods to help with there growth and development, not junk food. It is just as easy to chop up some banana for a baby for a snack than to just whip out the chocolate bar!
At this young age it is crucial to start the our children on healthy eating habits.

This only directed at the mums who don't care for there children's health (Which seems to be a lot of them these days). I know there is still so many mum's out there who feed there babies the proper healthy foods.

ponycyndi

I agree with you, and 99% of the time, my toddler eats healthy. But I won't deny him goodies on occasion, so i am also that mom that will post a pic of it on Facebook, because of the fact that it happens so rarely.

DucklingtoSwan

This just made me think of a time when I was in a restaurant, and there was a large family group of people, looked like they'd perhaps all just come from church or something, and there was a baby, perhaps not even a month old at best, and I looked over and one of them, I presume the baby's father, was DIPPING HIS STRAW INTO HIS SODA AND FEEDING IT TO THE BABY. Did anyone say anything to him? Nope. All the adults just sat around talking with each other and cooing at how cute the baby was. it was not just a 'taste', either, he was giving that poor baby sip after sip of soda. I wanted to run over there and smack it out of his hand. :explode:

CJisinShape

Meanwhile, someone, somewhere is having an actual problem.

brower47

Your peek at people is only a peek. You can't assume the entire diet of a child based on goofy Facebook updates or a family dining out. Focus on your kid/kids and stop expending so much emotional energy on something that isn't within your control and, frankly, not your business.

Carley

I complete agree, it makes me want to scream. Hubby's families thought I was crazy when

I wouldn't put cordial/soda/rice cereal in my daughters bottles
Delayed solids until 7-8months
Wouldn't give them Mcdoanlds before 5
They only snacks they can have is fruit/veggie sticks/nuts

My 2 girls are the only kids without weight problems in his whole family!!

Jesslane93

This just made me think of a time when I was in a restaurant, and there was a large family group of people, looked like they'd perhaps all just come from church or something, and there was a baby, perhaps not even a month old at best, and I looked over and one of them, I presume the baby's father, was DIPPING HIS STRAW INTO HIS SODA AND FEEDING IT TO THE BABY. Did anyone say anything to him? Nope. All the adults just sat around talking with each other and cooing at how cute the baby was. it was not just a 'taste', either, he was giving that poor baby sip after sip of soda. I wanted to run over there and smack it out of his hand. :explode:

My own mother went to dip my sons dummy in her chocolate milkshake when my son was just 6 months old to try and stop him from crying! I snatched the dummy off her before she could put it in his mouth. I said to her, 'No wonder all I wanted to eat was sugary food when I was a kid if you were giving stuff like that to me as a baby'
Not only is this stuff not good for the health, and it will also have an impact on the teeth! I want my baby to grow up healthy and strong with good teeth.

dakotababy

FACT - There will always be parents out there that should not be parents...for many reasons other than what they feed their kids (though, without a doubt, this can be concerning in some circumstances.) Unfortunately, these parents will never know who they are.

crystalnichle

I agree with you 100%. my son is 18months and has never had chocolate or anything like that. he eats healthier then I do! Its always those mothers that try and justify it by saying oh my kid doesnt like veggies... that sounds more like a parenting problem to me!

walkingmommy2014

I grew up with a mom like this and that is why I am now on mfp and my son loves all fruits and veggies (even broccoli).

PennyVonDread

Wow, seriously. It's not literally poisoning their kids. At that age, their bodies are more resilient and honestly, kids on restrictive diets are more likely to have long-term problems or even psychological damage and control isses. A lot of kids whose parents go overboard with the health/weight thing end up accidentally malnourishing kids. Also, as far as health goes, I'd rather have a fat kid who is active than a thin one who is lazy. Toddlers have a lot of energy. They probably eat and play and are normal, healthy babies. Shame on you for judging other people parenting habits at only glimpses of their lives. Unless you're that kid's doctor, mind your own.

HerkMeOff

How's the view from atop that high horse?

Carley

I grew up with a mom like this and that is why I am now on mfp and my son loves all fruits and veggies (even broccoli).

Same as my kids! The love lentils, chickpeas, baby spinach, mushrooms etc

And they still get treats all about teaching balace.

Confuzzled4ever

Having a rant...

I have a 14 month old son, and have so many friends around me with babies similar age. Everyday I see them posting pics on face book of there babies face covered in chocolate and cake. I am ok with 'kids' having a treat every now and than. But a 'baby' does not need that sort of food in there tiny bodies, and I feel like yelling at these stupid mothers and telling them to stop feeding there kids diabetes. Babies need real foods to help with there growth and development, not junk food. It is just as easy to chop up some banana for a baby for a snack than to just whip out the chocolate bar!
At this young age it is crucial to start the our children on healthy eating habits.

This only directed at the mums who don't care for there children's health (Which seems to be a lot of them these days). I know there is still so many mum's out there who feed there babies the proper healthy foods.

You assume an awful lot.. Guess I'll just put myself into you "terrible parent" category, (picks up chair and moves) since my facebook is full of my son stuffing his face with all things unhealthy. never mind he's 6ft2 and 190lbs. Even when he was a baby, he ate. A lot. when he was 2 weeks old I had to put cereal in his bottle so he'd be able to eat enough. I haven't been able to buy him a kids meals since he was 6. They weren't enough food. I wonder how my son is perfectly healthy and not fat?

Unless yo know the kids overall diet you really shouldn't judge. I mean really a picture of them eating a carrot is so not cute, but chocolate on the face?? Now that is cute.

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Sunbrooke

Yep. People look at me like I'm committing child abuse when I tell my son he can't have something because it isn't healthy. It's pathetic that the worst foods are traditionally considered kids foods. Just look at a restaurant's Kid's Mens: Grilled Cheese, Hamburger, chicken tenders, all with fries. My son has friends who are getting fat and they are just kids. Instead of people seeing it as a problem, people just figure that they are kids and will grow, but they won't grow out of it when they are adults and it can't be the most healthy lifestyle. For anyone who does care; don't get your child food treats, as rewards, or as comforts (like ice cream on a bad day, or pizza after a sports win). This just teaches them habits that they may spend years trying to break.

devil_in_a_blue_dress

As opposed to mothers raising the next generation of sanctimonious poo poos.

psych101

Wow, I must be a terrible mother - I have a pic of my son on my Facebook with Nutella smeared all over his face...

Jesslane93

Yes i am considered the mean parent because I don't my 'BABY' chocolate and cake and other cr*p like that. I will definitely perfectly fine with him having the odd chocolate bar when he is school aged, and has already ate all his vegies on his plate. And as for the people saying it could only be an every now an than thing on facebook. You are forgetting I am friends with these people, and they put these pics up 'EVERYDAY'! and my son is not under weight, or over weight. He is aloud to eat until he is full, just only healthy foods.

doointhis4me

Meanwhile, someone, somewhere is having an actual problem.

This..

usmcmp

I complete agree, it makes me want to scream. Hubby's families thought I was crazy when

I wouldn't put cordial/soda/rice cereal in my daughters bottles
Delayed solids until 7-8months
Wouldn't give them Mcdoanlds before 5
They only snacks they can have is fruit/veggie sticks/nuts

My 2 girls are the only kids without weight problems in his whole family!!

I broke all your "rules" and my kids are a very healthy weight. We are active and if they want to have a snack cake for snack that's fine with me. My mom didn't allow candy or fast food, so as soon as we got our driver's license that's all we ate. Didn't take long for us to become obese.

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Confuzzled4ever

FACT - There will always be parents out there that should not be parents...for many reasons other than what they feed their kids (though, without a doubt, this can be concerning in some circumstances.) Unfortunately, these parents will never know who they are.

Some diets are better then others, but feeding a child a diet that does not conform to your ideals (generic you) does not make it a bad diet. Bad parents do know who they are, bad parents just don't care. That is why they are bad parents.

I agree with you 100%. my son is 18months and has never had chocolate or anything like that. he eats healthier then I do! Its always those mothers that try and justify it by saying oh my kid doesnt like veggies... that sounds more like a parenting problem to me!

Poor kid. chocolate is yummy.. I really really hope you did the smash cake for his 1st birthday. That's a rite of passage.. denying your kid treats such as chocolate just means he will eat a ton when mommy isn't around. sorry, but that's the plain truth of it. My son has never been restricted from eating treats (quantity was limited before though), and now he moderates himself.

Wow, I must be a terrible mother - I have a pic of my son on my Facebook with Nutella smeared all over his face...

Welcome to the club! *pulls up second chair* We have cookies here. :drinker:

mandybear014

Meanwhile, someone, somewhere is having an actual problem.

:laugh:

Well said! :drinker:

Jesslane93

Yep. People look at me like I'm committing child abuse when I tell my son he can't have something because it isn't healthy. It's pathetic that the worst foods are traditionally considered kids foods. Just look at a restaurant's Kid's Mens: Grilled Cheese, Hamburger, chicken tenders, all with fries. My son has friends who are getting fat and they are just kids. Instead of people seeing it as a problem, people just figure that they are kids and will grow, but they won't grow out of it when they are adults and it can't be the most healthy lifestyle. For anyone who does care; don't get your child food treats, as rewards, or as comforts (like ice cream on a bad day, or pizza after a sports win). This just teaches them habits that they may spend years trying to break.

So, anyone who gives their child grilled cheese, burgers or chicken fingers doesn't care about their child?
OK.

Anyone is giving there children these things every single day does not care about there child's health.

psych101

I complete agree, it makes me want to scream. Hubby's families thought I was crazy when

I wouldn't put cordial/soda/rice cereal in my daughters bottles
Delayed solids until 7-8months
Wouldn't give them Mcdoanlds before 5
They only snacks they can have is fruit/veggie sticks/nuts

My 2 girls are the only kids without weight problems in his whole family!!

I broke all your "rules" and my kids are a very healthy weight. We are active and if they want to have a snack cake for snack that's fine with me. My mom didn't allow candy or fast food, so as soon as we got our driver's license that's all we ate. Didn't take long for us to become obese.

^^ this - my parents restricted our food so much that we rebelled so hard when we finally got some kind of freedom....

Mr_Bad_Example

This just made me think of a time when I was in a restaurant, and there was a large family group of people, looked like they'd perhaps all just come from church or something, and there was a baby, perhaps not even a month old at best, and I looked over and one of them, I presume the baby's father, was DIPPING HIS STRAW INTO HIS SODA AND FEEDING IT TO THE BABY. Did anyone say anything to him? Nope. All the adults just sat around talking with each other and cooing at how cute the baby was. it was not just a 'taste', either, he was giving that poor baby sip after sip of soda. I wanted to run over there and smack it out of his hand. :explode:

My own mother went to dip my sons dummy in her chocolate milkshake when my son was just 6 months old to try and stop him from crying! I snatched the dummy off her before she could put it in his mouth. I said to her, 'No wonder all I wanted to eat was sugary food when I was a kid if you were giving stuff like that to me as a baby'
Not only is this stuff not good for the health, and it will also have an impact on the teeth! I want my baby to grow up healthy and strong with good teeth.

Wow, that's horrible! It's like all of those babies out there born addicted to crack!

Wait, no it's not.

HerkMeOff

Yep. People look at me like I'm committing child abuse when I tell my son he can't have something because it isn't healthy. It's pathetic that the worst foods are traditionally considered kids foods. Just look at a restaurant's Kid's Mens: Grilled Cheese, Hamburger, chicken tenders, all with fries. My son has friends who are getting fat and they are just kids. Instead of people seeing it as a problem, people just figure that they are kids and will grow, but they won't grow out of it when they are adults and it can't be the most healthy lifestyle. For anyone who does care; don't get your child food treats, as rewards, or as comforts (like ice cream on a bad day, or pizza after a sports win). This just teaches them habits that they may spend years trying to break.

So, anyone who gives their child grilled cheese, burgers or chicken fingers doesn't care about their child?
OK.

Anyone is giving there children these things every single day does not care about there child's health.

I'm glad you're a perfect parent, at 21 I am sure you got it all figured out.

Strokingdiction

Having a rant...

I have a 14 month old son, and have so many friends around me with babies similar age. Everyday I see them posting pics on face book of there babies face covered in chocolate and cake. I am ok with 'kids' having a treat every now and than. But a 'baby' does not need that sort of food in there tiny bodies, and I feel like yelling at these stupid mothers and telling them to stop feeding there kids diabetes. Babies need real foods to help with there growth and development, not junk food. It is just as easy to chop up some banana for a baby for a snack than to just whip out the chocolate bar!
At this young age it is crucial to start the our children on healthy eating habits.

This only directed at the mums who don't care for there children's health (Which seems to be a lot of them these days). I know there is still so many mum's out there who feed there babies the proper healthy foods.

Yagisama

I volunteered for a children's hospital for many years and this was one of the main issues faced by the health care providers. As one doctor put it, they spent most of their time trying to save the children from the parents.

The hospital staff would try to give the kids healthy food but the parents would visit and bring all sorts of chocolates and candy, which would include other kids in the hospital.

But chocolate and cake for babies? That, I had never seen before.

Confuzzled4ever

Yep. People look at me like I'm committing child abuse when I tell my son he can't have something because it isn't healthy. It's pathetic that the worst foods are traditionally considered kids foods. Just look at a restaurant's Kid's Mens: Grilled Cheese, Hamburger, chicken tenders, all with fries. My son has friends who are getting fat and they are just kids. Instead of people seeing it as a problem, people just figure that they are kids and will grow, but they won't grow out of it when they are adults and it can't be the most healthy lifestyle. For anyone who does care; don't get your child food treats, as rewards, or as comforts (like ice cream on a bad day, or pizza after a sports win). This just teaches them habits that they may spend years trying to break.

So, anyone who gives their child grilled cheese, burgers or chicken fingers doesn't care about their child?
OK.

Anyone is giving there children these things every single day does not care about there child's health.

But wait.. what if it's whole wheat bread and full fat cheese?? Why is that unhealthy?? Im starting to feel bad for your child. Grilled cheese is the bomb!!