There are so many things within this parenting caper that ‘define’ your style of parenting, and I often think that if your style differ – even ever so slightly – it can greatly impact on how often you actually want to catch up with another parent. I had totally found my match in Canberra, we had the same ideas on the major points like; discipline, what we fed our kids, what activities we wanted our kids to participate in, potty training, sleeping methods, coffee intake.
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I loved that we would meet at the park each week for ‘paint and play’ and after our children had had enough ‘play’, we would share our lunch boxes and then we would wonder up to the local cafe for coffee and babycinos.
I actually started this friendship by walking up to her in the park one day and saying ‘Are you interested in grabbing a coffee, my shout.’ She said of course and that I didn’t need to shout her one, but I did, and she got the coffees the following week. We have been shouting each other since and it’s been the nicest.
But I have seen how babycinos can divide mothers online and in person.
It seems, when it comes to babycinos, you either fall into one of two categories:
- ‘If it brings a smile to my child’s face and gives me 10 minutes of peace to drink my cappuccino I am all for them! A big pat on the back to the cafe owner who invented them!’ OR
- ‘A massive rip off for a little leftover milk froth and a sprinkle of chocolate’.
When Patchwork Cactus proclaimed that she ‘usually didn’t buy babycinos’, I asked ‘how do you manage to get away with not buying babycinos? My boys are addicted.’ She said that she was ‘too tight to buy them. $2.50, you can buy 2.5 L of milk for that’.
James Anthony, who manages Public CBD on Franklin St, Adelaide City, said the cafe does not charge for a babycino. “I still believe for a simple babycino … you shouldn’t be charging for it,” he said.
“If you want to charge for it then you really have to deliver something over and above what I consider to be a babycino, which is a cup of froth with some chocolate on top. You’d need to add marshmallows and possibly do a larger size.”
I also am of the opinion that you need to provide a marshmallow if you want to charge me a $1. But I will let it slide if said babycino gives me 10 minutes peace whilst I am enjoying my soy latte.
In saying that, my husband has a double coffee mentality when he is at a cafe {which extends to two babycinos if the boys are with him} and so if the boys have been to a cafe with him, it will take a few days before they re-settle into our ‘one-babycino-only policy’.
And then there are those judgemental cafe goers, who don’t have children stating “… those stupid Babycinos are just instilling a cafe culture into these kids! By the time they are 10 years old they’ll be wanting a ‘grande double shot, skim, mochachino!’ ” Ladies {and gents – often those over the age of 60 – you know, those really grumpy ‘grandpas’}, it’s just frothy milk and a little chocolate sprinkled on top.
