The best thing in today’s blog roundup is Vintage soda ads: Can you spot the fake? at Grist. Drop by and see if people really were urged to feed soda to children before they could walk.
If so, it must have made it a lot more startling to burp the baby after each feeding.
Hint: Only one of the ads shown is a fake. Holy cow.
In other news:
Lettuce lovers may want to buy some seeds at I Pick Up Pennies
3 money-saving strategies that can backfire at Ask Liz Weston
Frugality is lifelong at Frugal For Life
I’m a tightwad, not a jerk at Modern Tightwad
Social media toolkit at Social Media Marketing
The seven silliest money stunts I’ve ever pulled at Funny About Money
Some days you just need to eat butter at Notes For My Next Life (a reminder to all of us to keep our “problems” in perspective)
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Of course, in some parts of the country, they don’t seem to have gotten the memo to stop doing this. I see moms putting coke (the soda kind!) in bottles on a somewhat regular basis at the playground. (They’re also the moms that hit their kids as punishment for hitting. I’m never brave enough to point out the irony of yelling “Don’t HIT” while whapping your child.)
You know, I always kind of wondered why I never saw any dads at the playground… I think the answer is just that there’s a time-warp on the playground to the 1950s. That would explain some of the hairstyles I see too…
I dunno, should I just blame the American Education System on this one? Or is there something more sinister going on…
Wow. Soda for babies.
Side note to anyone whose pediatrician hasn’t brought this up: Don’t put a baby to bed with a bottle unless that bottle is filled with water.
My sister, the dental hygienist, sees “baby bottle mouth” fairly often — a pattern of decay that indicates the child grew up dozing off with with milk or juice bathing its teeth.
Of course, the dentist she used to work for would go off on a tirade about “juice abuse,” the tendency in the U.S. to give kids fruit juice throughout the day. Not only is the sugar bad for their teeth, it takes the edge off their appetites and makes them pick at food during mealtimes — which means they’re hungry later and get to have snacks and maybe even more juice. Besides, the whole fruits and vegetables are much better for kids.
Here’s a link to the American Academy of Pediatrics statement on the issue:
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;107/5/1210
Note though that breastmilk is ok– it naturally has anti-rot stuff in it.
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/older-baby/tooth-decay.html
Add 7-up to baby’s milk??? Ick!
When I was a kid the only soft drink I was allowed to drink was 7-Up. And that was very rarely. But thank goodness it was not mixed with milk!
That is a hoot!
Reminds me of what happened when my son was a baby. We carefully bought him what we thought were “pure” and “natural” products and blended up baby food in the kitchen. We never fed him sweets–only fruits, vegetables, grains, and meat.
We used Beechnut juices because they came in glass bottles (no plastic for this kid!) and were billed as 100% juice. So I merrily fed him apple juice, which he seemed to like a lot.
Turns out Beechnut apple juice wasn’t juice at all. It was sugar water with a little dye in it.
On his first visit to the dentist, almost every tooth in his mouth was rotted. The dentist excoriated me for giving him sugar…and I had no idea what he was talking about. It was a hideous experience.
You can’t trust big business to give one tiny damn about your kids. Ethics is not part of their trade.