Images posted by a mother of two on TikTok showing her toddler eating the food she throws from the floor have sparked outrage. "Dirty" and "disgusting" are some of the comments about Raquel Tolman, who encourages her baby to eat the bites she throws at him as if he were a farm animal.
"Sometimes when I'm sick, I like to feed my baby his little snacks as if they were chicken," the mother from Utah, US, said. "He loves it," she continued."
In the viral video, which has garnered more than 4.6 million views, her baby appears to be down on the floor while she throws cereal on the carpet.
The child starts to catch the food and the mother encourages him to eat the snacks.
The video has outraged users online. "I find it humiliating and disgusting," one broke out. "Sick or not, I would never treat my child with such disrespect," was another comment.
"What the... this is so dirty. I could never do that to a child," another commented.[/P][/P]Others accused the mother of treating the child like a dog or a "pigeon in the park."
Some however supported her and some even said they do the same thing to their children. "I do that too. I throw some snacks on the playpen and he crawls in," one mom said in the comments.
"I sit here with my 8-month-old while my 2-year-old sleeps and just throw food to entertain her when I'm not feeling well. She loves it," confessed another mom."
"My son taps his snack and then eats the bits off the floor," said another."
Another mom even suggested that feeding the baby as if he were... a chicken can help his development. "It's good for him because he crawls, he catches the little bits of food, I see a lot of good things."
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