A mum has been left fuming after discovering her eight-year-old son was 'tricked' into eating cake at a birthday party, despite her banning him from eating sugar.
The mum had taken her boy to her best friend's son's birthday celebration and had packed some carrot sticks and ranch dressing as a light snack for the youngster, as she doesn't allow him to eat junk food or sugar.
"My best friend bakes a lot, and made a special chocolate cake for her son's birthday. When it comes to my son, I don't let him have cake. This is personal preference for his health, not for any allergy reasons, and he is not diabetic or gluten free," she wrote on Reddit's AITA forum.
"My son knows he isn't allowed to have cake because of the additives. When he told his best friend this at the party, his friend apparently got upset and told him it was 'good cake', not bad like I say, because his mom made it, and it was his birthday cake."
Her son ate some of the cake before getting a "sugar rush" and later crashing, "marking him cranky for the rest of the day" after they left the party.
"I told my friend she needs to have some kind of consequences for her son to teach him not to peer pressure other children into eating things they're not allowed to have," the mum continued.
"She said because it wasn't an issue of allergies or health, that she's sorry my son was cranky but she won't be punishing her son or talking to him about it on his birthday. She says also that she'll just that she'll watch more closely/make sure her husband does in the future, as well as have a chat with him on another day about respecting food habits."
The mum went on to say that while she loves her friend, she knows that she and her husband have a habit of always saying yes to their son and never giving him any consequences, before turning to Reddit to question whether she was justified in being upset at her friend for refusing to punish her son.
"You're the a**hole and here's what is going to happen when your son realises all of the food that he's not allowed to eat," one Reddit user commented.
"He's going to sneak it, he will learn to sneak other things, he will have food issues, and possibly a weight problem. Kids need to be taught that food is fine and we eat in moderation."
Another added: "The eight-year-old kid at his own birthday party offered a piece of cake his mother made for him to your eight-year-old kid, his friend, and you want him to have 'some kind of consequences.'
"Get over yourself. This kid didn’t 'pressure' him. Your son said I can't eat cake because it's bad for me (and I have an overbearing mother who tells me that) and the kid just said there's nothing bad in my mom's cake. Your kid didn't HAVE to eat it. He chose to."
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