At a time when rates of obesity and overweight are increasing among children around the world, choosing which foods are included in the breakfasts of the little ones has become a challenge for many parents. While some are clear that from the earliest years they should get used to eating healthy foods, such as fruit, others believe that at such an early age they should not be so strict.
This is the case of an American mother, who decided that her son should take some potato chips -specifically, some Pringles- for breakfast at school. A snack that according to this tiktoker (@peaveymegan) is "very appropriate for a three-year-old child."
When her son returned from school, this mother found that the school had left a note in the chip container. It read: "Please help us make healthy choices downtown." The tiktoker has wanted to share her anger on the social network and in her video she regrets that they have embarrassed her and her son. "The message is passive-aggressive," she criticizes.
And he adds: "At home we don't value food according to whether it's healthy or not, because that can cause eating disorders. I'm curious to know what you would do." To finish, he asks his followers a question: "Do you think it's ridiculous? Because I do."
The video, which has more than 50,000 likes, has already accumulated thousands of responses from parents criticizing the school's attitude, as well as recommendations on what to do. "Send some chips the next day and write this message on the container: when you buy it, you can decide which snack my son gets," says one user.
Others encourage her to send potato chips to all the children in the class, or propose other messages that she could write on the can. "If it happened to me, I would probably end up spending the night in a cell," says another threatening mother.
Despite the fact that nutritionists recommend reducing the consumption of ultra-processed foods as much as possible, the majority of responses that the video accumulates do not refer to whether breakfast is healthy or not. Rather they criticize how the school has dealt with the situation.
This mom might not have posted the video if she had been spoken to in person. Or perhaps she would have done the same, considering how attractive it is for many to post everything that happens to them on this fashionable social network.
