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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]you cut up grapes for your five year old?!? lol[/quote]

The link that PP linked above describes a 5 year old who choked and died on a grape.  A friend of a friend in Loudoun County has a permanently disabled child who is blind, can’t speak, and can’t hold his dead up because he choked on a carrot at age 4.  He was recusitated but will spend the rest of his life unable to care for himself or communicate.  And you say LOL?!  WTF.[/quote]

[b]You're supposed to teach your kids to bite and chew.  By 5, even delayed kids can bite and chew[/b].  [/quote]

Do what you want with your own kid, but don’t be an insensitive idiot. Kids don’t choke to death because they weren’t taught how to chew. Sometimes things happen and food goes down the wrong way. Maybe they are startled, or bumped, or something makes them laugh while they are eating. If you can’t recognize this, you truly are a moron. [/quote]

NP. Yes. exactly. [b]But this can happen to anyone, adult or child. So unless you decide to get a g-tube or puree everything in the blender for the next 85 years, this is one of the risks of life. You cannot make yourself crazy banning foods and cutting things up into tiny bits--at some point you have to accept that some things are out of our control.[/b] There are a billion ways for you or your kids to hurt yourselves and die or become disabled. Constantly obsessing over them and trying to prevent them is not rational or helpful.

I would be way more upset with my 5-year-old for being so thick as to put toys in his mouth than at the company for designing them. It is reasonable for them to think that a kid that age would know better, and if they don't know better (special needs or something), that their parent wouldn't buy it for them. Just like it's not the fault of Tide that some people are so stupid as to attempt to eat detergent pods. [/quote]

My post was not arguing for or against cutting up grapes for young children, but was addressed to the ridiculously callous and idiotic nature of the PP's post. She was responding to stories about children's choking deaths and disabilities with "You're supposed to teach your kids to bite and chew."

Children are more likely to choke than adults. Besides having less maturity and caution, they simply have smaller airways than adults. The older they are the lower the risk, but it's not like age 3 is some magic number, after which they are just like adults. You can look this information up about choking stats if you are really interested. I was a choking victim as an adult when someone startled me and it was the most terrifying experience ever. No, I do not cut up all my family's food into tiny bits, but it's not that hard to practice basic precautions. It is so ridiculously easy to limit or cut up high risk foods such as hot dogs, grapes, and baby carrots for younger kids. [/quote]

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