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Coke and chips for an 18 month old child?
By workoutmommy | June 9, 2008
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This is just plain wrong.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Oh…don’t worry about her. According to her mom, she’ll magically start eating healthy foods at some point.
Eyeroll.
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June 9th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
F**cking ridiculous. It always pisses me off when parents say they can’t get their children to do something or eat something - excuse me, but who is in charge?
That said, I’ve never had children, so who am I to say anything? I remember being forced as a child to eat the things I didn’t want to eat, and I thank my parents for it now.
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June 9th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
bag lady, I totally agree with you. and I too had to sit at the table for many hours until I ate those veggies. I wish my parents would still make me do that!
June 9th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
slacker–isn’t that just ridiculous? As if a child is suddenly going to decide to start eating carrots over chips?
June 10th, 2008 at 2:32 am
First thought - it kinda made me giggle when the mom said there aren’t any “big people” in the family and then the pic of her was… well, big.
Second - My 20 month-old weighs 34 lbs (the girl in the article is 18 months and weights 30 lbs) so it’s really not that big. Although my son is also very tall so his BMI ends up fine as he is proportionate. (He’s as tall as most 4-year olds. What can I say, I have big babies!)
Third - that said, it is completely inexcusable to feed a baby that kind of junk. They can’t eat it if it isn’t in the house. They will eventually eat the good stuff - they won’t starve.
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June 10th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Its really sad. Besides the start of bad eating habits and the crappy “parenting”; there is also the risk of malnutrition leading to poor development. My niece was raised on chips and sprite and her develpment / bones suffered for it - she got a spiral break when she fell running - I firmly believe that if she had been eating properly, there would never have been a break and certainly not a spiral break of the leg. I wish parents would think about the long term instead of the short term….
June 10th, 2008 at 8:52 am
That is terrible! It is true that you can’t force an 18 month old to eat something they don’t want. They aren’t old enough to understand the whole “you will sit there until you eat it” business. But, if you only offer them good stuff, they will eventually get hungry enough to eat it, and they won’t starve themselves in the meantime. Crazy woman.
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June 10th, 2008 at 9:33 am
If you want your child to eat healthy (fruits and veggies), then you must eat them. It starts early, but it is never too late. When you start feeding your child solids you give them sweet potatoes, pears, peas etc so they do eat healthy then. We as adults need to follow up on that and continue it until they are adults. I know I am preaching to the choir, but obviously some folks are so clueless they are actually harming their children. UGH!
June 10th, 2008 at 9:37 am
I mean… Where does one begin with this?
June 10th, 2008 at 9:42 am
charlotte: i thought the same thing about the picture!
jen: that is awful about your niece’s break. How sad!
kg: so true! I bet this mom doesn’t eat anything healthy herself.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
My oldest adopted daughter weighed almost 90 lbs. at age 3 for these same reasons. Food is the most important thing in the world to her and it is hard to get her to think otherwise. She eats much healthier now, and has grown taller and thinner, but it is so frustrating when parents let their kids start out this way - they don’t understand that it will be SO hard to get them out of this unhealthy habit.
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June 10th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Reading that article made me mad.
Yeah, the photo of the girl didn’t look huge, but that’s really not the point. It’s the mother who is feeding her child junk that makes me mad! “Oh, she doesn’t want to eat vegetables, so I have to give her chips.” Waah-waah-waah. Sorry, not impressed.
Uh, ma’am, SHE’S the baby; YOU’RE the mom! Start acting like one!
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June 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
That is TERRIBLE. That poor, poor little girl, being raised eating virtually only junk.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
“we don’t have large people in our family…” Ummm…I don’t mean to be rude here, but heeellloo, from the picture the mother looks big to me! I’m not bashing for being overweight, but the point is kids get their habits from their parents and if she is eating/buying those things for herself then OF COURSE the kid id going to want to eat them! I mean c’mon, how would an 18mo.old child even know what coca-cola/chips is unless the parent gives it to them and TEACHES them that its ok to eat it. Then she tries to give the kid something healthy and OF COURSE the kid is going to say no way - the junk tastes better! UGH, this gets me sooo pissy! (sorry)
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June 11th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
This is so sad, and so wrong!!! The little girl is too young to buy these for herself or to put herself in this position- it is moms fault. I am sure my son would love to decide that he is having chips and ice cream for ever meal, but there is no way in h$ll it is going to happen. We don’t have chips or ice cream in the house- let alone let a 3 year old dictate what we eat. When my mom was a professor at one hospital (oversaw pediatric nursing clinical students) she had one patient who was maybe 4 or 5, and he was over 150 pounds. His parents said they could not explain his weight- and that he did not eat that much. Then- they show up at the hospital for his lunch with 4 filled bags from McDonalds- sodas, milkshakes, pies, double cheeseburgers, fries, and multiples of each at that. No idea where he was getting the food, eh?
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June 12th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Nature vs. Nuture…in this case the nuturing is definitely have a huge effect.
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June 12th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Mmm. I have mixed feelings on this one. I’m sure I’ll get some slack over my comments, but here goes. First I don’t really think this child is necessarily obese, maybe pudgy. Second, when the Brits say “chips”, they’re referring to “french fries”, which is a vegetable, albeit not cooked in the most healthiest of ways. I don’t agree with the coke consumption, but my kids eat fries when I’m on the go and I don’t see anything wrong with it in moderation. Also, I have a 20 month old who was going through a “phase” in which it was hard to get him to eat anything and it was quite frustrating and I admit to giving him food that probably wasn’t the most healthy, but alas, it was something in his tummy. He is now back to eating pretty healthy. All of my kids went through this picky stage and I think you do what ya gotta do to get through it. Perhaps this toddler too, is just going through a phase.
Also, who knows what this mom’s situation is? Perhaps she has a demanding career and unfortunately eats out more because quite simply she’s out of time to cook “organic food grown out of her garden”. Everyone doesn’t have that luxury. Personally I feel everyone should lighten up and let her be. According to the mother, her other kids turned out okay, and this one most likely will too.
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June 12th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
momofthree–I can relate to occasionally feeding my toddler some unhealthier choices, but I don’t see where anyone can justify giving their 18 month old Coke.
Yes, kids go through phases, but the mom is charge and needs to put her foot down. I wish my parents had never introduced me to chocolate, then maybe I wouldn’t crave it so much as an adult!
I agree that the kid isn’t obese though, and I forgot that the Brits call fries “chips”.
June 16th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Ditto on the chocolate ^_*
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