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Seriously, how the fuck do you justify giving your baby pop??? On the bus today, a baby less then a year old, drinking orange soda pop out of a baby bottle. What the fuck?? Are you fucking stupid?? Some people really shouldn’t have children.
—virgomom
This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2009.
20 Comments
I agree with you 100% virgomom.
I also hate it when I see parents buying frozen coffee drinks for toddlers. Like that much caffeine is good for a 3 yr old.
If I ever got pop as a child, it was a treat or special occasion (birthday, maybe a small cup on weekends) but mom/dad raised me on milk, natural (and frozen) juice and water.
Pop is going to make an infant crave sugar and dehydrate even quicker. Wait, virgo, was the parent inhaling a hogie through their nostrils at the same time?
Why was it again that obesity was such a problem?
Oh yeah; genetics. Or maybe it was Hormonal disorders, that’s it. Or maybe it was windfarms, I can’t remember…..
Orrrrrrrr, maybe it is because people are too stupid for their own good and any dipshit with gonads can have children and pass on their stupidity to the next generation.
The one time I gave my 2 year old cream soda, it was because he was thirsty, it was 21C out, and he had finished his milk. He spit my bottled water out, and the only other thing I had on me, without walking for 20 minutes and making the kid suffer more, was my cream soda. I gave it to him. In his bottle. Which he still has for good reasons.
I get more riled at the parents who will plow their kids with nothing but junk food, and who puff cigarattes around them.
Parents DO make mistakes- not a damn one ever was, is, or will be perfect.
Check this out:
http://www.oddee.com/item_92625.aspx
At one time, it appears, that was perfectly normal. No wonder so many boomers have lousy teeth if any.
Yo virgomouth, mind your own fucking business…………and shut the fuck up!
Some people really shouldn’t have bitches.
With all the crap people bitch about, I think this is something worth bitching about.
The baby was like 4 months old, it was disgusting. I’ve never given my child pop. She had it once at a friends bday party and thought it was gross and hasn’t drank it since.
With all the crap people bitch about, your wrong this is something worth bitching about.
Seriously, how the fuck do you justify letting your kid drink pop??? You let the kid just have anything that was going around at a birthday party?! What the fuck?? Are you fucking stupid??
Let’s get frosty the ass man in here to comment on this tragedy! Yo frosty! Hey baD mR fRosTy, what does the working man think of this transgression? Were talkin……opps, I mean, “We’re talkin’ ORANGE POP here!”
Might as well be Agent Orange! The kid on the bus was only a few months old for fuck sake, what a way to start a life!
fRosTy!!
“YO!” Smee….do you agree or diasgree with Virgomom? Im confused….
Your first post:
“Yo virgomouth, mind your own fucking business…………and shut the fuck up!
Some people really shouldn’t have bitches”
Your second post:
“this is something worth bitching about”
Well smee, go ahead and defend the bitch. She’s setting her kid up to fail. Having your first taste of pop at 6 and at 4 mths old is a huge difference.
Have fun with your obese kids and huge dentist bills!
I agree that an infant( or anyone) should not consume soda. It is a major oversight of us all to NOT consider WHY a parent was giving a child soda. During the depression after the war, mothers often fed babies water with some sugar, instead of milk because it was all the was avalible and cheap. I would like to think that if milk were more affordable ( as it is in other provinces) and proper food was cheaper , we would see a decline in the consumption of soda and prepackaged junk. Consider the price difference between a can soda and a box of Kraft Diner, and a bottle of 100% juice and fruit.
Before we judge, ( which we shouldn’t) lets look at the large issues at hand.
I thought the bitch said dont feed a baby poop. But it said pop.
Feeding a baby baby pop is not good.
Older toddlers want pop because they see people drinking it and can make a stink if they do not get a taste at least. Root beer like MUGS has no caffeine in it and so if my son is going to have a sugar blast and there isnt anything available that he will drink since he wont drink water or milk(which I also dont want to give my son)…
But regular daily pop drinking makes an addict eventually I believe. in stores the brands can be limited or really really really overpriced. I was in a local restaurant and the graves local apple juice in a glass bottle was almost $3
In a drugstore down the block it was 1.50
How can apple juice cost that much if it comes from the valley somewhere
oh dear i am blabbing on here but
Pop is a weird challenge with kids since they see it everywhere…
an infant should be guarded from this evil for as long as possible and breast fed if possible.
bye
I was looking for juice yesterday when another customer pointed out that sunny d has vegetable oil in it. I read the ingredience and clear as day vegetable oil. So now its not only sugar and caffine we have to worry about it our juice. Our kids are obese why?
French;
You missed a bit……I said: “……your wrong this is something worth bitching about.”
Then serious sarcasm follows.
You would not have miss-understood if you could have heard the audio rather than reading the transcript.
Virgomom;
I don’t defend the bitch feeding pop to an infant, not a good idea I agree, as a generality.
I defend her right to a fair trial.
You know nothing of her circumstance, as others have pointed out, don’t be so quick to judge and prosecute, that was how Smee felt about the Posted Bitch.
You should have been virgomum, as in kept quiet and mind your own affairs.
I don’t need to know the circumstances to know that feeding an infant high fructose corn syrup and a variety of dyes and chemicals is not stellar parenting. Plain ol’ water is a far better choice and free from any faucet/water fountain. If this bitch was about a woman feeding her child beer in a baby bottle on the bus we wouldn’t need to have a long chat about the price of beer vs. milk and personal circumstances/socioeconomic factors that may have influenced her decision to feed her child the beer before deciding that the mother was not displaying good child rearing skills. Use common sense Smee.
Maybe the child needed a good ol’ burp to settle the stomach or some such thing and that was all there was at hand………….I do know one taste of orange pop is not going to do serious harm the baby.
Anyway, how do we know it was orange pop? Just cause it was orange? I think the witch & bitch hunt was a tad premature. One instance on a bus is hardly proof of serious foul play requiring Draconian prosecution, you just don’t know the facts. You don’t know the truth or consequences.
THAT is using common sense as Smee sees it…………as opposed to mob mentality of a lynch party basing verdicts on jumped conclusions and incomplete evidence.
IS beer cheaper than milk? I don’t know the price of milk, I don’t drink it, but beer is about $1.65 for 340 ml……. it ain’t cheap. Orange pop can be had for what……..$.35 for a similar amount and similar volume purchase?
Maybe a child would be better off with beer as opposed to orange pop?
I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure the best way to burp a baby is to not to feed it a bottle filled with orange soda, perhaps gently patting him/her on the back would work? I doubt that what virgomom witnessed on the bus was the first, last and only time soda has been fed to that child. As for what sort of harm it can cause, I would call decreased bone density, tooth decay, obesity, and an increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes serious harm. When I used beer as an example it was to illustrate a point, although the increased consumption of beer and soda both pose health risks most people whould be aghast at the thought of feeding an infant beer. Parents should be striving to give their children the best start possible not set them up for future health issues.
Was this on the #80 bus to Sackville?
that is sooooooooooooo not cool!!!