Rein/harnesses for children

Elsewhere

Cavemen probably pureed food by chewing it before giving it to the baby, as is still done in some cultures (including some folks in America http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/alicia-silverstone-pre-chews-food-for-son-bear-10-months-2012283 )

Lunar_Eclipse

I think they have their place with young toddlers and can be extremely helpful in keeping children safe and minimising accidents (like very young walkers falling over every ten seconds!)

notanewuser

Elsewhere wrote: »

Cavemen probably pureed food by chewing it before giving it to the baby, as is still done in some cultures (including some folks in America http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/alicia-silverstone-pre-chews-food-for-son-bear-10-months-2012283 )

Ah, but that's not a pur!e, is it? Pedantic I know, but fact is (most) kids can cope with real food without needing it mashed, nevermind pur!ed smooth.

*I know dizziblonde's baby can't.

dizziblonde

notanewuser wrote: »

Ah, but that's not a pur!e, is it? Pedantic I know, but fact is (most) kids can cope with real food without needing it mashed, nevermind pur!ed smooth.

*I know dizziblonde's baby can't.

Couldn't... now she can fit an entire banana in her gob lengthways in a very disturbing fashion... I won't mention what I forsee her future career path being with THAT as her main talent in life! :eek:

notanewuser

dizziblonde wrote: »

Couldn't... now she can fit an entire banana in her gob lengthways in a very disturbing fashion... I won't mention what I forsee her future career path being with THAT as her main talent in life! :eek:

:eek: :rotfl: :t

Sounds like she's really coming on (no pun intended ).

This_Year

jellyhead wrote: »

I used to get dirty looks for having a gigantic child in a pram too (we kept it until he was almost 4, and he's a giant) but they were looks from people whose children rarely walked more than a couple of miles. There's a world of difference between walking to toddler group from the car park, and walking from a house 7 miles away.

My DD was (still is!) very tall and at around 14 months I was in town with her in the pushchair and I was told in no uncertain terms by 2 old women that I was making a rod for my own back and teaching her to be lazy and why wasn't she at school anyway?

I retorted that we don't send babies of just over a year old to school and why didn't they just mind their own business? And walked off fuming!

dizziblonde

This_Year wrote: »

My DD was (still is!) very tall and at around 14 months I was in town with her in the pushchair and I was told in no uncertain terms by 2 old women that I was making a rod for my own back and teaching her to be lazy and why wasn't she at school anyway?

I retorted that we don't send babies of just over a year old to school and why didn't they just mind their own business? And walked off fuming!

I'm going to get this soon - my eldest is 1 next week and already being mistaken for a 2 year old! Plus still is slightly behind in her physical development as a double whammy!

This_Year

dizziblonde wrote: »

I'm going to get this soon - my eldest is 1 next week and already being mistaken for a 2 year old! Plus still is slightly behind in her physical development as a double whammy!

It really infuriates me the way some people like to be so judgemental about other people, especially the ones who speak to someone with them in a stage whisper so you hear their unwanted opinions!

pulliptears

On the subject of pushchairs though, MIL still put DD in a buggy at nearly 5 when she was more than capable of walking...just very lazy and MIL couldn't be bothered with coaxing her. She used to stay with MIL on a friday night and I was so very fed up with telling her to not use the buggy, she promised she had stopped using it a while ago etc etc.

One friday night we were going to collect an Indian from the takeaway near the in laws. There was MIL wheeling DD through the village in a buggy. I was furious. She'd been to the shop barely 500 yards away and put her in the buggy for it!
Next morning when we went to collect her I marched into the garage where buggy was stored, pulled the big scissors out of my handbag I'd bought with me for the occasion and I cut the bloody thing in half much to her bemusement.

Problem solved.

jellyhead

dizziblonde wrote: »

I'm going to get this soon - my eldest is 1 next week and already being mistaken for a 2 year old! Plus still is slightly behind in her physical development as a double whammy!

We went to a zoo for my youngest's first birthday, and he had a helium birthday balloon tied to his pram. People assumed it was his second birthday. He was a giant, and was walking, but not very steady.

On his second birthday he was in hospital for a couple of weeks and the staff kept asking me what was wrong with him, because I answered for him and he didn't respond to their questions. I realise that some children would reply in sentences at 24 months, but mine didn't make conversation except for sign language. Still, the day after he was discharged he had his 2 year check, and wasn't referred for speech therapy. I think people just assume he's much older than he is.

The SENCO asked for an IQ test and his year 1 teacher said that it wasn't until he had to work out his age in months that he realised he was the youngest in the class - he was head and shoulders above the others, bless him.