Snack mom

[Anonymous]

She is giving her child mainly apple slices. I wouldn’t care.

However it does annoy me when a parent I’m with is constantly giving their kid goldfish, chips, other not great snacks. Then is always offering to share. And of course my child wants them too but I say no and deal with the whining

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So DH, DD and myself hung out with DHs friends and their 3YO DS today at a farm market fall thing. We got there at 9. At 9:30, the other mother gave her son a snack of apple slices, handful of popcorn and water. She offered to our DD but I told her “we gave her a proper breakfast”. We did-eggs, bacon, yogurt, toast, juice. DD got upset but calmed down eventually. Then for lunch they bought their son a slice of pizza and water. I brought sandwiches and yogurt. Their son left the crust and they didn’t seemed to care. An hour later, their son asked for a snack and they gave it to him! More apples. DD was full from lunch. Then they left an hour later so their son could nap. Am I wrong that they aren’t feeding their son right? Just snacks and junk food?

You have kids who are good eaters. Many people have kids who are picking eaters and have other feeding issues that make things like a "proper breakfast" a non-starter. It would take my Asperger's DD 4 hours to eat "ggs, bacon, yogurt, toast, juice" LOLOLOL. And my Asperger's DS would just get up and flush them down the toilet since according to him that's were all food ends up anyway. Just count your blessings that you have nice neurotypical children instead of being a judgmental b***h.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re both feeding your kids fine. You, however, are a judgemental jerk.

+1

You have no idea what they gave their son for breakfast or when he ate breakfast, or what he eats the rest of the time.

Apple slices and popcorn are not junk food. Pizza, while it may not be the nutritionally optimal choice, is perfectly acceptable, especially as a treat eating lunch out with friends. If you’re so offended by the pizza, why are you upset that he didn’t finish his crust, but had some apples later?

As a Pp mentioned, your offerings were not nutritionally optimal either. Your bacon probably had as much or more grease as the pizza. Every nutritionist I’ve ever heard has stressed that fruit is far better than juice. Perhaps being a virtuous paragon, you served your child sour, plain yogurt, but if it was fruit-flavored, it provided a significant dose of sugar. Was the bread whole grain? Was there mayonnaise?

Nobody is perfect, but I think both kids in this scenario gave parents who, based on the limited evidence presented are doing an excellent job caring for their children. Even if they weren’t, it’s none of your business. Just keep doing your best for your child and let other parents do the same for theirs. Sometimes you might make “better” parenting choices, but seeing as nobody’s perfect, there will also be times when your choices might be “worse” than other parents, which is fine. If a child was raised to expect perfection, they would inevitably be disappointed, and how would they cope with the real world?

[Anonymous]

Op, what wrong with you ?!

[Anonymous]

He does not have good eating habits by just snacking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He does not have good eating habits by just snacking.

Stop sock puppeting. You are a jerk and everything you did in this situation was wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He does not have good eating habits by just snacking.

Not every body works with the “three meals a day” model. I’m 47 and it doesn’t work for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apple slices and popcorn at 9:30??? How is that okay?

How are apple slices and popcorn a problem at any hour of the day?

[Anonymous]

Be thankful you don’t have the DC attending feeding therapy. Please don’t judge eating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apple slices and popcorn at 9:30??? How is that okay?

How are apple slices and popcorn a problem at any hour of the day?

Because it’s not PROPER, according to OP.

[Anonymous]

OP you are way too judgmental. You better buckle up if you think this is bad...

[Anonymous]

I hope someone calls me “snack mom”. My 3 yo is a snack monster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We didn’t discuss food-our husbands arranged this. I assumed she would pack lunch.

That’s nice. She probably assumed you would be buying lunch. If you wanted her to know you were planning to pack lunch, you needed to tell her ahead of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We didn’t discuss food-our husbands arranged this. I assumed she would pack lunch.

That’s nice. She probably assumed you would be buying lunch. If you wanted her to know you were planning to pack lunch, you needed to tell her ahead of time.

Apparently this poor mom had to clear apple slices and popcorn with the superior OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope someone calls me “snack mom”. My 3 yo is a snack monster.

Lol yeah I assumed a “snack mom” was one of the nice moms who always offers everyone some of the millions of snacks they brought to the playground. It’s a bit awkward for me because my household tends to run like OP’s (minimal snacks and big meals) but I always think these moms are super nice and like that they give us conversation starters. Apple slices are a very healthy snack and pizza is a fine lunch especially for a day out.