why?, why?, why?


When I was a young mum, I heard many tales on how to stop babies and toddlers from sucking their thumbs.

The previous two generations of mums had spent weeks, months, even years, discouraging thumb sucking; mostly because of fears of dental misalignment, or decay.

(anyone out there know how to remove this annoying underlining?)

So when I found these on the supermarket shelf I was dumbfounded.

These flavoured gel suckers, (oh look, the underlining is gone. How'd that happen?), made in China, come in 3 flavours. Strawberry, (pink), Cola, (blue), and Apple (green).


First on the ingredients list is sugar, followed by glucose syrup. Definitely not good for the teeth..



These are designed to sit on a child's thumb, via a hole in the base, so imitating the undesirable trait once desperately discouraged by so many mums.



Like so...(it's a little blurry, my hands were shaky)

I think this is just as wrong as the flavoured dummies, (pacifiers), brought out several years ago. I believe they came in chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.


Plus, the guy on the wrapper looks evil. To me anyway.

I hope these thumbsuckers don't stay around too long. So far I haven't sold any, but then most of my customers are adults on their way to work.




Comments

  1. I hope my kids don't spot these anywhere because I'm gonna say NO. What a terrible idea!

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  2. Yuck!
    It wrecks the kids' teeth, gawd knows what these would do.

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  3. FAIL on all levels including the fact that they are made in China from Goddess knows what.

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  4. I saw these ghastly things when I was clubbing, recently.

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  5. Toni; keep your kids out of the confectionary aisle...if you can. Bribe them with a movie, that'll work.

    Jayne; sugar rush anyone?

    JahTeh; ingredients: sugar; glucose syrup; water; flavours; acidulant; lactic acid; acidity regulator; sodium lactate; colours E104; E129; E132; E133; E171. That's the strawberry one.

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  6. AJ; so the young adults are picking these up? Great. We all know how the littlies love to emulate the bigger kids.

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