Day 312: Pet peeves

SO I hate complaining, but when I see these two things they absolutely press my buttons!

1. Babies and food:
a.) Look how much my baby can eat!!! Dear mothers, fathers, and other caregivers, please do not do this to your babies. If you keep feeding them, they will keep eating. Babies don't know how much food or drink to have. This is your job as the parents. Give them the appropriate amount! Do not teach them to eat whenever there is food or worse always put food in the mouths. Do you understand the repercussions your doing as that baby becomes a child, or worse an adult, and they were taught to just keep eating....or taught to eat huge portions. Then we have overweight children or (if their metabolism is good), children with bad eating habits that will eventually have their habits catch up to their weight.

I literally cringe when I saw Maury who had a bunch of teen moms talking about how they love their babies so if they cry, they shove chocolate milk in their mouths. WHAT BABY should even know what chocolate milk tastes like?

2.) Babies and TV
a) It drives me mad when parents comment on how much their baby likes watching tv. Ok, a little tv cool, the little DVDs that make them more aware ok. Sesame Street and Dora....cool. Wait what did you say?  YOUR BABY HAS SPENT THREE HOURS WATCHING MOVIES AND SHE LOVES TO STARE AT THE TV.

What....you as a parent should be ashamed. That baby does not need to be watching so much tv. You will realize this when your child is 5 or 6 and can't sit still for more than 5 minutes unless the dang tv is on. Whatever, you say. What about the 6 hours that they can't sit in school? (Remember I was at the school with them....they couldn't sit still) Yes, there is a breaking point and sometimes you the parent need a break, and the break is TV, but please use it minimally. Please.

b.) Babies and high definition videos that make normal people go into seizures.

Why was I on the metro...and this baby was watching the Willow Smith, "Whip My Hair" video...over and over? Do you know I almost had a seizure that video has so many lights, color, swift changes, and noises? Can you imagine what it was doing to the baby. Babies are fascinated by mobiles, and not even colorful ones just something black and white that twirls. This is what they need for stimulation, recognizing the world around them. Have you as an adult ever been overstimulated? It's horrible, right? Makes you dizzy, gives you a headache, too much, you think, too much. HOW do you think this baby feels?