My Aunt just stopped by.
When she arrived, DS was chewing on a Mum-mum (a little rice biscuit that literally melts in his mouth). She kept saying "That is so large. He's going to choke. You should break it into smaller pieces."
I ignored her.
Before she left, I give him the other since they're a 2 pack. Immediately she starts with the "That is too big! Why don't you give him smaller foods!"
Finally I said "He eats them all the time. He's fine."
So she said "You just don't know because you're with him every day. But I have an outside perspective and I know that is too big for him."
Um... what?
Re: Vent
People are so strange sometimes.
MIL said something like that to me last time she was here. I nearly clobbered her.
Doesn't she realize SMALLER foods are the choking hazards?
Yeah. I had given DS a long fresh well cooked green bean. She gasped and said, "oh no! he can't eat that, he'll choke!"
The pedi and I had JUST talked about this and he had eaten 2 or 3 of these already.
DH actually agreed with her.
I told him that night if he ever questioned my parenting in front of her again he was losing marital privileges for a year.