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My cousin, who I'm not close to, wrote that she needed to by s forward facing seat because her 10 month old outgrew his infant seat. I also see tons of people post pictures of their 3-4 year olds in no carseat at all... ugh it's so hard not to comment.

@kiddosc: oh I know right... a good friend of mine has posted pictures of her son who isn't even a year old (but probably almost 25 lbs) forward facing and the chest strap near his stomach!! I want to say something SO BADLY but I fear it would be taken the wrong way.
It sounds awful but I cannot stand the excuse that the child wasn't happy rear-facing

@Anagram: bahaha. love it.

I saw a picture posted on fb of a 4 month old drinking a bottle filled with what appeared to be apple juice. Like a full bottle, maybe 4-5oz.

This isnt really advice, but on the reverse for when you say something to seeing something absurd. I saw my cousin feeding her 6 month old pork chops and ice. I was a naive 18yr old, and said isn't ice and pork chops not good for a baby? The baby was nearly choking. I promptly got cursed out. Luckily someone else in the family called defax because she was unfit for other reasons.

Wow! I recently saw a pic on my newsfeed of someone's baby licking on the end of a Corona bottle that had liquid in it.. just seemed really trashy!

Ice cream?! Ugh! I shouldn't even be surprised-I've poured many sodas into toddler sippy cups while waiting tables

@septemberlove: we started with juice at 4 months at the advice of our pediatrician....for constipation issues. LO gets 2oz juice mixed with 2oz formula.....4oz bottle.

@Anagram: I don't have FB but I was asking my mom's friend who has 6 kids about avocados. I told her LO won't eat them and she's like..."oh, sprinkle some salt on them..or sugar. He'll love that. I did that with most of my kids' veggies"
Um, really? salt is terrible and so is sugar for a 7m old.
oh! and this weekend we went out to eat and I forgot to order something that LO could share with me (steak house).
We asked the waitress if they had anything we could feed our son and she was like, "oh yeah, I can get a small bowl of cream for the little guy. that's soft, right?" I was like,,,"um, no...can we get come cottage cheese or ....a baked sweet potato or something?!" She has kids because she was telling DH that her son turns 7 this week.

I saw someone post a picture of her 9 month old in a forward facing car seat with a caption about how her baby is growing up so fast and is now facing forward. I really thought about messaging her, but didn't.

One friend is giving her 8 week old fruit and veggies already. Another only buckles the chest clips on the carseat...

@Weagle: why only the chest clip?! What do they think the bottom clip is for? That's like wearing your pants with only one leg inside. It's meant to be used as a set!

@mewtill: I do not know. It makes me want to cry.

@mewtill: Oh, and this same person fed her 4 month old Oreo cream.

oh my god....that is just crazy!!!! i seriously think you should have to pass some sort of exam to be a parent, or at least the hospital should hand out a manual of basic infant care information!

What the what? Ice cream in every bottle?? I don't even let myself have that much ice cream. I know we're not supposed to judge other moms, but that seems like the beginning of some very bad habits

@blackbird: Oh no, that would be so hard to do

@prettylizy: Chocolate milk at 5 months?? I can't even imagine giving DD chocolate milk!

Trying really hard to not be judgy here, but it's hard!

@swurlygurl: omg I'm judging so badly right here... these are insane.

@babynumber1: yeah it's sad though I acutally just argued with DH about this this weekend because he thinks we should forward face soon and I said I'll go to three years if I can and he flipped on me! I told him I'll show him a video of what happens to a baby when they're a year old and forward facing in an accident and he wouldn't watch it!

Dan's cousin just posted a picture of her 8-month-old eating a RING POP. Um...