Junk Food Kids: Who's to Blame?

[saundra]

I have to agree with ally these days it's food all day
Even kids eating a packet of sandwiches in the shop as well as a bottle of pop
Right out of order
They were eating the stuff before they got to the checkout

[Gal]

I think young parents these days seem to have no idea about discipline. At all. As long as little Johnny is happy and not whining, then that's fine give him what he wants and we get peace and quiet.

It's disgraceful.

[Kaz]

I agree, no discipline whatsoever.

I actually spoke to a young woman in the coffee shop yesterday - the children with her were about 5 and 3, and were running wildly up and down the middle of the shop, making a heck of a racket and attracting a lot of tutting, but she was completely ignoring them, just talking to the other young woman with her. At one point the smallest almost ran into a waitress who had a tray of hot drinks, she had to turn sideways and raise the tray to shoulder level, and I'd had enough

"Excuse me! The little girl almost tripped the waitress up there, her running wild in here like this is dangerous"

She looked at me blankly and for a moment I thought I was going to get a mouthful of abuse, but she just said "Oh thanks.." and asked the children to sit down............

[saundra]

Well done kAz good for you

[debih]

I haven't seen this so probably cant really comment.

But at age 7, L had to have 8 teeth removed. 6 were baby teeth but 2 were adult teeth. I was mortified. There were a number of reasons for this - 1 - her gob was too small for her teeth (unbelievable really as this is the gobbiest child i know), b] her teeth were growing funny and c) she had a number of decayed baby teeth.

She ate and and drank very little sweet stuff of juice but still her teeth were decayed. She had 8 teeth removed and still they (the dentist) says she has to have more teeth out as she has too many for her big fat gob!!!!

So, although I havent seen the programme and can't really comment, this is from the perspective of a mum that rarely used sweetened juices and food and has one child with almost perfect teeth and one that needs loads of work. Same diet, same womb - different outcome. Things aren't always as plain cut as the media make out!

[Workingman]

Debih, isn't the biological idea behind milk teeth that they be discarded as a person grows? Why pull them?

Could it be that the dental intervention is/was part of the cause of L's problems?

[Kaz]

Decayed baby teeth can cause pain and infection Frank, the same as adult ones.

Debih there must be a genetic factor in there somewhere - one sister was luckier than the other perhaps xxx