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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get the obsession with snacks at the playground; can't kids live without having snacks around 24-7?  Plus, the playground years are so fleeting, not worth freaking out about the concept of eating at home for those years.[/quote]

No. Their spoiled moms must carry the child’s feeding trough on them at all times or they will simply fade away to nothing.[/quote]

I am pretty anti-snack and I caved to the peer pressure recently. I felt bad being the only mom without snacks and my kid would end up being offered snacks by friends. Felt like my mom friends thought I was mooching off their snack supply.[/quote]

Ugh. Yes.  You become the mean controlling parent if your child is the only one without snacks and then you tell them they can’t have some of their friends’ either. [/quote]

I know this is off topic, but: yes. Also, both my kid and I are naturally tall and thin and I get insane judgment about food/feeding because people assume I diet/exercise obsessively to maintain my weight (I don’t) so if there is ever any implication that I might be denying my kid food, a surprising number of people assume I have an eating disorder and I’m trying to give DD one too.

Like once I forgot a snack for the playground and got an actual lecture from another mom about feeding my kid. She definitely thought I had food issues and dud not believe me when I said I forgot. At one point she tried to order me to go to a nearby grocery store (“I will watch your kid. You need to go get her FOOD.”). Just deranged. We left the playground but now I’m aware of the optics and I’m never without extra food.[/quote]

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