how come babies are allowed to eat like sloppy pigs but when one grows up it is socially unacceptable?
440115
Babies are young and don't know better.  They can pretty much do anything and get away with it, even crap in their pants.  Trow up on a human being and people laugh about it.  But as they get older they are taught how to behave in public.  Hence the socially acceptable behavior.
346070
In some societies, yes, they do that...for a variety of odd reasons.  It's gross!
140676
I am sorry to disagree with you, but I don't think Society is forgetting that, PARENTS ARE!!!!\n\nChildren's good manners are the parents' responsibility.\n\nI am 30 years old and I have a 6 year old boy.  My parents taught me table manners and they DEMANDED me to behave well, now I do the same thing with my son.\n\nHe is very well behaved and has excellent table manners that everybody comments that.  The teachers at school are very proud of him and of course, I am too.\n\nSo, you can see that it wasn't the Society who taught him that.
547546
I dunno. It's illlogical, since if doctors hate it, they will surely haul children who eat it to give them a check-up or something like that. Hence, naturally, armed with this knowledge, children would not desire to eat it as they assumedly would not want to visit the doctor.
762882
They somehow believe that children spend the most time with their parents or with people that their parents would otherwise disapprove of, but given that their parents have "no personal assertiveness" or are working long hours in difficult and unpleasant jobs they have no time to see what their kids are up to and hence from whom they are receiving their bad influence. Society also assumes that bad parents are a bad influence on their children, whom it is assumed spend all day watching and learning bad habits from mum and dad. I think offspring in any situation get to compare their own parents with other people's families. Every family is dysfunctional in some way. It doesn't matter how you start out, as long as you finish the right way.
329765
When it comes to putting food on the table, you have to make successions in life. I would feel embarrassed to be going through that too. What it comes down to it, do you care if the kids at your school are shocked to look at you in disgust or would you rather have your child look at you in disgust because you couldn't provide it with the needs of a child.
856500
Maybe not forced but encouraged. If you only have healthy food around and keep the sweets minimal then good eating habits will come naturally. For children who already have bad eating habits it can take some work on getting them to eat correctly but when they get hungry enough they will eat what ever you put infront of them. I run a daycare and I keep the sweets out. Children at first complain that I don't have the chips and sweets they are used to but after a while I hear the parents comments on how they can no longer keep fruit and vegetables stocked in their homes. I have taught the children that good eating can be better and sweeter (if cooked correctly) then candy and junk food. It has gone a long way.
809081
No, but a lady I once worked with asked if I used to eat cotton when I was little. She said she and her brothers used to swallow cotton and then wait for it to come out the other end and pull it. How gross is that? She was really embarrassed when she realised that wasn't something all kids did.
1103874
Yes- when a parent allows a child to become obese s/he is causing physical and psychological damage to that child. Sounds like abuse to me. I'm disgusted by any parent who's willing to take 20 years off their child's life and doom her to "fat-girl" taunts just because burgers are yummy, cheap and easy. \n\nThat said, if it WAS viewed as abuse by the powers that be it would be impossible to enforce. Kids come in so many shapes and sizes and sometimes it doesn't mean anything. A child who is fed nothing but cheetos can be quite svelte due to a quick metabolism or active lifestyle. By the same token there can be children like my sister and I. We were born two years apart to hippie parents. We were both fed organic salads, whole wheat bread and never any refined sugars. Our parents were extra careful with our diets- and yet at the ages fo 10 and 8 respectively, I was thin and she was fat. Now that we're adults we have similar, healthy figures, but she just held on to her "baby fat" longer than most. \n\nSo yeah- it is abuse but it would be too hard to enforce it as such since kids are so variable.
814726
They sometimes get teased by their friends for not being capable in doing physical exercise and simply just for being fat or for eating too much. But one needs to know which friend are just joking and which are being mean. Usually obesity are caused by doting parents who thinks that making their child obese means that they really care about their child. All kids cry for food as a toddler, but parents need to make their stand clear and be mindful of how much the child really needs to keep healthy and fit. So I guess, society should start at these parents first and then the children when they grow a little older and are more mindful about their surroundings
1005031
No its not. It's malnutrition.. You better consult nutristionist for that.. Give enough nutrition to infant.. Thanks
1075593
Adults do not understand a child's mind. They are growing up in an entirely different society than they did no matter how much they say, It was the same thing when iwas younger
743894
Probably becuase their tastes buds have been defiled by all the junk food they are given at home.\nChildren need to have their palates educated in the same way as their minds. If they live on a diet of chips, burgers and other unhealthy fat soaked foods at home is it any wonder that they do not know how to appreciate the more diverse fruit and veg.
992285
Society has allowed the children to take control.  Their is a reason children are not supposed to be in control, it is because they lack self control and are selfish.  Children are not supposed to be told no today, if you do they lose control and do what children do, have tantrums.  \n\nSo many things are wrong with this picture, but parents need to learn to take back control, very soon.  Blessings.
118806
Human infants are born without any culture.  They must be transformed by their parents, teachers, and others into cultural and socially adept animals.  The general process of acquiring culture is referred to as socialization .  During socialization, we learn the language of the culture we are born into as well as the roles we are to play in life.  For instance, girls learn how to be daughters, sisters, friends, wives, and mothers.  In addition, they learn about the occupational roles that their society allows them.  We also learn and usually adopt our culture's norms  through the socialization process.  Norms are the conceptions of appropriate and expected behavior that are held by most members of the society.  While socialization refers to the general process of acquiring culture, anthropologists use the term enculturation  for the process of being socialized to a particular culture.  You were enculturated to your specific culture by your parents and the other people who raised you.\nSuccessful socialization can result in uniformity within a society.  If all children receive the same socialization, it is likely that they will share the same beliefs and expectations.  This fact has been a strong motivation for national governments around the world to standardize education and make it compulsive.  Deciding what things will be taught and how they are taught is a powerful political tool for controlling people.  Those who internalize the norms of society are not likely to break the law or want radical social changes.   In all societies, however, there are individuals who do not conform to culturally defined standards of normalcy because they were "abnormally" socialized, which is to say that they have not internalized the norms of society.  These people are usually defined by their society as being deviant or even mentally ill.
1070549
The way young people are being brought up now is very different than when I was growing up. Parents now aren't near as strict as they use to be.  If the parents of the children now were to give their children the discipline they needed instead of just giving in because of , in some cases fear then the kids now would not be in the situations they are in.  Children would not be having children and morals would be a lot different.
1061036
People who say those silly things were like that when they were kids. They grew in size, but still maintain their childish behavior. Some refer to it as "spoiled". When they don't get their way they throw a tantrum. Bet they were like that when Mom took them to the store.