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mamasita said:
I say that only because you seem to imply that unless you shelter her from the horrors of McDonalds, she will be sucked into their marketing hype and start demanding it herself.
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sorry, but i am not implying anything of the sort. i am not that thick!

all i am implying is that i dont want my 2 year old eating macdonalds. as for the demanding - i know what she is like when she eats something she likes, she does ask for it. you should see the strops she throws for a lolipop!

when she is slightly older, i doubt i will be such a hitler about it, but to me 2 is too young

dont worry Mrs m, am not so harsh as to tell the mum why.
 
I'd say let her go, its a kids party and will be good for her and food wise she can have salads and a fruit bag.
Thanks to a certain urbanite making me burn my dinner last night my son had a mc donalds ... his first in months, he's a typical 14 yr old kid loves fast food but even he draws the line at mc donalds on a regular basis.
 
mini chieftain went to a party invovling McShit food as a treat yesterday!

He had a bite of a burger, spat it out and came out in a rash later




...so thats Mc Shit out of the equation then, which is great
 
Rollem said:
yeah, yeah, yeah ;) but fact is, i dont want my 2 year old eating that crap.

i am not daft enough to think this dilema wont ever come again, and if it does chances are i'll take her along - i just think 2 is a bit early to be stuffing a big mac down your throat!
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Problem is macdonads is part of our society.. So avoide it, and be dammed, go and be dammed, I would think, how important are you ethics and then decide. personally I try not to impose my ethics on my chid, after all they have the rest of there lives to make informed choices... Do what will make life easier for you in the future / today....

We do let asha go to macdonalds as they are the only place we can safely get her fries and burger without milk / lactose or wheat in them.. she is wheat/gluten and lactose intollerant.. We didnt want her to know about macdonalds ,but at the end of the day food / no food... foood wins every time ;)
 
chieftain said:
He had a bite of a burger, spat it out and came out in a rash later
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Little Vipper refused to eat a burger king kids vege burger. Proud? Me?


<bursts with pride at the memory>
 
TBH, I went to McDonald's very occasionally as a kid. Asked to go now and then, was usually told no, but sometimes yes, never went much and now never go.

So it is possible to escape its dreaded clutch!
 
I didn't go to MacDonalds until I was about 14 or something, and I wasn't that bothered. We had a Wimpey we would sometimes go in when we went shopping in Notts, but Maccy-D's wasn't really on my radar. It was never made into a big deal. When I did finally go I wasn't mesmerised or anything. I haven't been in a MacDonalds for 5 years now. Me is proud :D

I wouldn't take her. When she is old enough she can make her own decisions, but at that age she isn't even aware there is a decision to be made - so go with what is important to you.
 
Mrs Magpie said:
My advice is OK, don't go, but don't tell her friend's Mum why (make a plausible excuse) and invite the friend over to yours for a nice little tea-party sometime soon.....
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yes i agree, if you feel this strongly about it then don't go, it might just confuse your daughter if you do :) :)
 
I'd take her fwiw.

but if you don't want her to go, don't take her - like you say, she's not going to know.

but what about when she gets invited to these parties when she's older?
 
tarannau said:
More seriously I used to be taken to McD's a few times during my childhood, usually as a treat of some kind, and I'd like to think it did me no real harm. My folks instilled the love of home cooking and proper meals in me at the same time. I think it actually helped put things in perspective for me - no one wants their daughter to be a fast food junkie, but nobody wants some precocious little brat who insists on only the finest soya milk from fresh and wild either.
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Me too.

Mind you, don't know much about dispensing advice to Rolly, can't make up me mind tbh. My sympathies on your dilemma.
 
I wouldn't take her. She's only tiny, she'll never know.

Christ, it's not like there aren't a plethora of other options for little kiddie parties - why the fuck McDonalds???? :eek:

IIRC, when I was little me & my peers often had b'day parties at the local community or leisure centre. I think you could hire a back room for a few quid (was well over 25 years ago, after all) and bring your own sarnies, cakes, hats, party bags, etc.

McDonalds should never be used for anything more than a wee.

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I'll share a spangle family legend. My eldest nephew, when he was 20 months old, was taken to macdonalds near my mum's place in kent for a treat. he had chips.

three months later, when driving past the macdonalds in St Kilda, melbourne - where my sis used to live - he started shouting out "chips! yeah!" - they couldn't work out why but eventually worked it out when he pinted to the golden arches in an advert. "chips! yeah!", he said.

logo-imprinting on the under-twos. believe it.

macdonalds is sweet and salty and bland. lucky those parents whose kids spit it out, but little kids ime rather like those tastes. besides which, the cartoon friezes on the walls and the take home balloon and the happy meal toy and the bright colours are all designed to be an exciting event location to a small kid.

i take the point about banning outright being counterproductive. we fetishised forbidden goodies when i was little, and some of the root of my binging behaviour stems from there, i've no doubt. It's a tricky issue.

But madge is, for now, a precious unspoiled baby - i'm with rollem - put the tricky decision off for another day. no harm her missing it for now. none at all.
 
My toddler eats cardboard and bits of fluff off the floor. He ate half a prawn cracker this evening. I would have no qualms about taking him to MacShiteLand. However, as spanglechick recalls, on slightly older (2 year olds) children, McDonalds is all for "branding" (read brainwashing). I say go with your instincts, but make up an excuse that doesn't alienate this woman. Plenty of time for McShite when she's older and able to decide for herself.
 
If you're not comfortable taking her to MacDonalds then don't - enjoy the fact that she's still young enough that you can make all the decisions and she won't know any better :D

Personally, I would probably take her if she was mine. I don't think it would do any harm.
 
EastEnder said:
I wouldn't take her. She's only tiny, she'll never know.

Christ, it's not like there aren't a plethora of other options for little kiddie parties - why the fuck McDonalds???? :eek:

IIRC, when I was little me & my peers often had b'day parties at the local community or leisure centre. I think you could hire a back room for a few quid (was well over 25 years ago, after all) and bring your own sarnies, cakes, hats, party bags, etc.

McDonalds should never be used for anything more than a wee.

:cool:
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I agree. Of all the parties in all the world, why the fuck McDonalds? Lazy parents meethinks.

My bubba has been to McD with her daddy. Ah, not a biggy to me. I'm a bit with Spanglechick in as much as if you deny it, the desire kicks in. But at 2, she wont know the difference.

I would have taken my bubbs, but I also know that if she was asked to something I really objected to, it would make me sick to do it. So you must go with your instinct, otherwise you will beat yourself up over it. And lord knows, we have plenty of time to do that, over even worse scenarios!!
 
The first time I ever had McDonalds was at my friend's birthday party* when I was about 7 or 8. It didn't do me any harm, and I don't particularly like McDonalds now either (from a taste point of view mainly). She's going to eat shite with her friends at some point I'm afraid.

*my mum no doubt went through a similar dilemma, PM and ask. She probably wouldn't have given a shit about the McNuggets if she'd known my friend's mum squeezed about 10 kids into her car on the way back and as I was the smallest had to squeeze into the front passenger footwell :D
 
This is bringing back awful memories of being 'Mr Wimpy' for kids birthday parties when I was about 16 years old and little kids sticking their hands up me costume going 'Mr Wimpy's a lady':(
 
i am glad that i didn't know about junk food until i was a young adult.


this situation is a tricky one though..

my initial reaction was that i wouldn't want to take my daughter either.
 
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