I know a mom who only feeds her 3.5 yo baby food
She is an ex friend of mine who recently reached out wanting to move on from things and be friends again. She came over and I was shocked to see that she still feeds her child two jars of baby food for breakfast and lunch and dinner. He's very short and scrawny, it's all he's really been fed.
I'm genuinely concerned for the kid, at best he's getting 600 calories a day and that's still way under the daily requirement for his age. When he was begging her for more food and I offered to make him something she snapped and said that she was a good mom and if she let him he'd eat all the time.
Would you say anything to her? She's a little scary to me honestly. I don't feel like being her friend anymore for more reasons than just her parenting, she doesn't think of others, only herself. Which kinda shows in her parenting. Poor boy.
I have strong reason to believe that it is daily. Two jars of baby food at every meal, I hope he does get some solid food in there sometimes. Money is not an issue for them, I know that. She lives with her extremely wealthy parents. Last year when her son was 2 all he ate was baby food, when we got back together a year later and I was asking if I could get him anything she laid out that he'd had two jars before they left and two jars here for lunch. He wanted to eat the last two jars and she said no that is your dinner. I know he also had yogurt bites as a snack.
She herself was eating restaurant food and her son came up to her chair and was watching and she kept putting him down and getting upset at him because he was hungry, he laid on the floor upset and she told him he was being birth control.
I went to the store and looked at the baby food he was eating that day and there was only 50 calories a jar. It makes me want to cry I cannot understand how a mother can do this.
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