Some kids have no chance,

[slowwww]

About 5 years ago I walked my eldest daughter to school and when we got there realised that we had forgotten her project work that was due in that day. Accordingly I nipped home to get that and dropped it back to the school office.

On my way out of the school by which time it was 30 minutes or so after the latest time they should have arrived, I noticed the boy from her class who was most often in trouble sitting in his father's car parked on the yellow zig-zag lines outside the school (they live all of 300 yards away), eating his breakfast which was a Magnum ice-cream, while his grossly-obese thug of a father smoked with all the windows wound up nice and tight.

I thought you poor little sod, you have both nature and nurture working against you there.......

 

[Spinney]

If you make it yourself, which is piss easy then it's pretty good for you!

Yes, but it's not the same without loads of butter and/or salt on it...

 

[ColinJ]

I was riding up a steep hill yesterday when a car overtook me. As it passed, a small girl leaned out of the rear window and yelled "Buy yourself a car!". I suspect that she was prompted by her dad from the driver's seat ...

Children are being taught from a very young age that legs are for operating car pedals not bike pedals - example.

 

[ColinJ]

Oh, and a mother who had just pulled out directly in front of me and then drove along at only 10 mph demonstrated why it was not worth her while accelerating - she lived less than 150 yards away from the school! Fair enough if we were suffering the thunderstorms that we had later in the day, but at that time it was still a lovely sunny afternoon.

 

[coffeejo]

That's all very well, @ColinJ, but what food are you?

 

[stephec]

I am chocolate.

 

[ColinJ]

That's all very well, @ColinJ, but what food are you?

I am chocolate.

Blimey - I have just realised that my body is 10% chocolate and Bakewell tart! I got my weight down to 78 kg last year and celebrated with a year long choc and tart binge which took me back to 85 kg!

 

[Julia9054]

Alternative perspective - mother may know from experience that said toddler, the moment he gets his apple would make a huge fuss and want chocolate cake. Maybe she was just trying to avoid a public toddler carpet biting meltdown.
Also, apples on offer in cafes tend to be of the giant green indigestible variety whereas she can get a whole bag of toddler sized ones in the supermarket for not much more than 50p

 

[ianrauk]

Alternative perspective - mother may know from experience that said toddler, the moment he gets his apple would make a huge fuss and want chocolate cake. Maybe she was just trying to avoid a public toddler carpet biting meltdown.
Also, apples on offer in cafes tend to be of the giant green indigestible variety whereas she can get a whole bag of toddler sized ones in the supermarket for not much more than 50p

Wholly agree with this.
Little H was forever asking for apples to eat. We give him one, one bite and that's it. He would then want something else.

There's two sides to every story and very easy to demonise people without knowing the facts.

 

[Chris S]

When I go shopping and see what other people are buying and then look at the person I always think “you are what you eat”

Somebody in front of me in Sainsburys just had a sliced loaf and a can of dog food in their basket ...

 

[hopless500]

Somebody in front of me in Sainsburys just had a sliced loaf and a can of dog food in their basket ...

Erm, maybe that's all they needed....just a thought!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

...very easy to demonise people without knowing the facts.

Fun too!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I jest of course. I'll freely admit the quality of my purchasing decisions declines in direct correlation to the public behaviour of my daughter. Thankfully she's very well behaved most of the time.

 

[Stephenite]

I am prawns. Whilst my 5 year-old, sitting opposite me in the café, is a jam waffle.

I'm on CC too. God! There's no hope for him.

 

[winjim]

My rule is that I only criticise the parenting skills of those with children younger than my own, since that's all the experience I have. So far I only have 13 months to go on and quite frankly if anybody's survived that first year without going absolutely batshit insane they've done well in my book.

I am Thai green curry, btw.