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I use to be polite but kept getting the “oh we’ve raised kids too”. Now I’m not rude but I’m straight forward, don’t feel like you need to justify why you’re not giving something to your kid.
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See here is the thing. We have this really good family friends and their son is now 3 yrs old and he eats everything.. everything homecooked. He prefers roti/chawal, kichri over nuggets pizza that kids nowadays are crazy about. So I asked my friend how they did it, they said ever since he was little, just about able to eat we used to put a little bit of whatever we ate in his mouth for taste. They said roti/parhata... they were all good. He loved rice. Now sodas, pizza and all that kinda stuff they didn't give him. So I always wonder when people say oh don't give your baby this that, this couple say do give your baby anything you eat for him to develop the taste. Don't know what's wrong what's right. I agree with junk food/sodas/sweet stuff but anything like egg and parhata.. I would be happy if my baby would eat that.
i agree wth u but she was only 7 months no oily things n dairy items before 1 year i told u before her doctor has forbidden these things till 1 year :) n egg is also dairy item :)
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^I have heard that you have to be careful with egg for a year!!! Back home though, I have seen my aunties and cousins giving eggs to the kids as young as six months, just when they start solids!
I believe that you have to be a lil bit more careful in teh US due to all these additives and perservaties they add in the food.. in Pakistan, however, it's different, most of the stuff that they consume is desi or organic as we will call it here!! I mean even the eggs there are from chickens that are raised in the house on grains that is not always the case with the organic eggs here!
i agree wth u even in dubai doctor recommend eggs aftr 1 year n chicken after 9 months best is fruit n vegetasble purees n some babe eggless biscuits n cerals atleast 9 months :)
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Okay thats totally different Spiral! You’re feeding the baby ghar ka khana and you know whats in it.
I have heard the same thing.
Its pop (we call it pop over here…soda or carbonated beverages high in sugar) I have an issue with or food that very obviously shouldn’t be given to a baby.
Sometimes people think its cute or funny to watch how eagerly he’ll taste it. **Obviously **he’s going to like it, its sweet! And these are people who HAVE kids of their own! They are told by my sister politely to please be careful because he’s so young and he has never had anything like this before. But it doesn’t work.
Anyway, I found a solution:
I just watch him like a hawk now and I don’t care who thinks I’m a Nazi.
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oh. my. GOD. baby is only 4 months old and already all i'm hearing from close family is how much "fun" it'll be to give him his first taste of pop. i'm so pissed and i'll be watching him like a hawk too. i don't want his teeth rotting before they've even formed. i know that sounds stupid but i'm so NOT pleased with certain people right now. i don't think its funny or cute and i've seen kids on sugar highs from pop and it ain't pretty. they go manic, they don't know how to handle it, and it always ends in tears for the kids and tears for the parents after dealing with their kids. stupid people.
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properly cooked egg yolk can be given to a baby from 10 months onwards but egg whites after 1 yr.
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it not funny at all.
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I put sugar in my son's weetabix, but he doesn't eat any chocolates or sweets (his choice) so I think it's ok.
I don't give him fizzy drinks. He did ask me for Coke during his birthday party. I was like, excuse me? I don't think so. He's never had it and I don't want him having it.
I know some parents put water in the fizzy drinks to trick their kids .... others give them pure fizzy drinks. Mind you, I had fizzy drinks when I was little ..... I know when he grows up he will not be in my control and will eat whatever he wants. Right now, he's in my control and he's ok without it, and I am not giving him any.
It helps that I don't drink fizzy drinks. We don't keep it in the house so he has no options.
I know a doctor who gave his child wasabi for sushi (before he turned 1) cause he thought the reaction would be funny. Now that's sick.
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its very easy to say, I will not do this or that .. but when u are in a situation sometimes things are not in your control.
as soon as my kids enter my parents home, my father showers them with candies :-/ I try telling him to control it but he does it anyway.
my ammi will give them sweet things amoung other things, sometimes I have to leave them there for a few hours and if she is not doing it in front of me, she is doing it behind my back.
during ramadan, my husband brought coke for himself, before that we didnt have it in our home, so the little one leaks after it, we have to say no but sometimes she just gets a bit.
I dont put sugar in their milk or cereal. But when we go shopping, some other kid has candies on their hands or we walk through the sweets shelves and they glue to it ... its everywhere and very hard to resist. kuddos to u all moms who have been able to keep it away from their kids.
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I know a doctor who gave his child wasabi for sushi (before he turned 1) cause he thought the reaction would be funny. Now that's sick.
Poor baby :(
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this thread reminds me of this video..
my friends cant wait to try this with my baby.. I dont know if I will let them 
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It doesn’t have to be lemon. I gave my son home made peach puree and the peach was a little on the tart side and he made the funniest face. You’ll have so much fun seeing their reactions as you introduce new foods.
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My husband let our 11 months old taste perrier water the other day. Funny thing was not only the face he made but that he actually wanted more of it. :)
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The only Pop I know is the Post Office Protocol (POP) , an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection..
I wonder if a kid can handle that :)
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I am against giving kids blatantly bad foods like soda/junk food etc...
however I think once kids are able to eat, they should be exposed to whatever it is that you are eating. That is the only way they will get in the habit, otherwise you'll be running around making seperate meals for them all the time. Now if you yourself aren't eating too healthy, then now is a good time to change the family's eating habits so you can offer kids/babies good foods (veggies, fruit, lean meats, beans etc) at each meal. I am struggling with this but getting there. My super super picky eater is now finally eating much better and finally eating red meat which he needs for iron. I think with him I was TOO cautious and gave him too many bland foods so now he is ultra picky.
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hunh?
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We live in a culture where ppl think it is ok to feed another person's baby without their permission. My FIL gave Jr. chai (made of powdered milk), both of us had a cow. Me more than my husband and we told him strictly that we do not even give him water, he is purely breastfed. FIL was like whatever but we put our foot down.
I used to leave Jr. with my parents when I worked and I had strictly told both my parents that he was not to be given anything without consulting with me. And when we were ready to introduce solids hubby decides to give him mashed up whole egg (boiled) Jr. threw up like nobody's business that taught my hubby to listen to what I am saying.
My dad was very adventurous with Jr.'s food and used to give him grated apple, mashed potatoes, teenday, kaddu, a little bit of paratha soaked up in gravy, mashed rice and chicken and Jr. was given a taste of all fruits and for that I am truly grateful. Now Jr. loves loves fruits, and he eats food with us whatever we eat. I really think that is what should be done with kids but only after food can be introduced.
Jr. has a sweet tooth like his dad and I try to limit his chocolate intake (He only has it when he sees dad having it and even then I control the quantities) but I do give him desi sweets (homemade usually and the sweetness level is not very high)
Kids get attracted to fizzy drinks just cos they see us drinking them but so far I have been able to keep Jr. away from fizzy drinks I hope I can keep him away even longer.
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Obviously most parents would never willingly give their child fizzy drinks...we had a get together recently and the kiddies drank flavoured soda water but even that is bad due to the aspartame in it...
the only thing parents can do is not expose the kids to the fizzy drinks, hence they won't develop a taste for them. I know many children who never drank fizzy stuff untill they were around 7 and then they despised it because they didn't like it.
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^That's pretty much what happened with us. We are 6 siblings and none of us drink fizzy drinks at home. My brothers will very occasionally if we're out. But they're so health concious now, they don't even drink black tea.
My cousin's children drink this stuff all the time, all their family members give them fizzy drinks. Like one person will pour some coke, a little while later someone else will ask if they want some and give them some more. It makes me sick watching it. All their baby teeth went black.
And in Pakistan, it's very normal for parents to give their kids fizzy drinks.
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I didn't give my kids fizzy drinks or pops until at least they were 18 mnths. as far as I remember.