is to get the palate used to the taste of the local cuisine
My 1 year old has in the last week eaten:
Cat food
Orange peels
Dirt
A piece of candy wrapper
2 flies
A spider
I’m pretty sure the kid will be fine chewing on a piece of birch.
For teething, maybe?
Slightly weird gift maybe but I dont understand why it would be dangerous or bad for the kid either?
If anything, overprotecting parents is probably a bigger danger today.
>My husband thinks its fine and said all german babies played with these
Did her husband grow up in the Weimar republic or something? lol
DDR Legos
Ja, so that Kinder start Bildung ze Blocks from en early Age.
According to § 1 Abs. 6 Satz 2 BauGB:
> Bei der Aufstellung der Bauleitpläne sind insbesondere zu berücksichtigen:
> (…)
> die Wohnbedürfnisse der Bevölkerung, insbesondere auch von Familien mit mehreren Kindern, die Schaffung und Erhaltung sozial stabiler Bewohnerstrukturen, die Eigentumsbildung weiter Kreise der Bevölkerung und die Anforderungen kostensparenden Bauens sowie die Bevölkerungsentwicklung.
English Translation:
> When preparing land-use plans, the following must be particularly taken into account:
> (…)
> the housing needs of the population, especially those of families with multiple children, the establishment and maintenance of socially stable residential structures, the promotion of property ownership among broad sections of the population, the requirements for cost-efficient construction, and demographic trends.
Sure, give him a bag of nails too, to toughen up the little fucker.
Who is Christ Hans?
yes, those are fine – next question
What species is the 11 month old? German shepherd?
My first born once eat a cigarette butt while playing on the floor. We were in a place drinking wine.
Most french education you can have i guess.
Birch is probably much safer to chew on than plastic. And at that age anything is interesting.
You should simply check non of the pieces are small enough to swallow. I heard the standard test is to put it through a toilet paper roll
Used to play with wood blocks and other things. Used to build little houses with wood glue and my fathers tools. Was some of the best fun i had. But tbf i was a little older than 11 months, so…
And with what i played when i was 11 months old is not exactly one if the things i can count to the stuff i remember.
Been living in Germany for 7 years, in East Germany too, have my own Germany baby and know lots of other people with German babies. Never seen any of them playing with stuff like this. Saying that I dont see the issue, unless the bark comes off and they eat it. Its a baby, it really does not care what its playing with.
Someone’s from Dresden
yeah, probably save. birch is quite soft, and as an outside toy these are probably and amazing tactile thing to touch, stack and wave around with. 10/10 would give those to my child too
I had a leashed chicken.
This is why Germans are such joyless adults, all we had to play with was off-cuts from a tree
You know it’s legit, because it’s pretty clean birch in portions too big to swallow. Birch is a good choice, i’ve seen so many Kita concepts with birch.
Very much swabian thing to do. …next give them wood blocks to start building houses.
Früh übt sich.
We need those future construction workers to fix crumbling infrastructure.
Wood has anti bacterial properties. So from that perspective OK – ish.
Your kid gets their teeth. That hurts, sometimes blood is involved. They like to chew on things. Meh – a wash.
These seem rather sizable. I’d rather be concerned due to the edges hurting an eye…
German austerity so us PIGS can continue being leeches
KinderSweig: to promote only the most boring of creativity.
You know, Germany?
Dafuq is this shit? Where did he get that “knowledge” fron?
There’s a joke to be made here but reddit may not like it.
Get the baby an axe too. He can learn to be the family fire keeper
The secret recipe to how you get a Hans
Jokes aside, I don’t really see any problem. If the wood pieces are clean from sawdust and splinters, I think they should be safe for the baby as long as a parent is watching. Of course don’t leave the baby alone with those or they’ll find a way to stick half of them inside their nose and eat the other half, children are absolute geniuses when it comes to self harm. But it might be just me, after all we’re born from the sheep, made men by the sheep, undone by the sheep
German engineering 
Who brings pieces of wood as a gift for a baby? Is this a germanic thing I’m not autistic enough to understand?
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is to get the palate used to the taste of the local cuisine
My 1 year old has in the last week eaten:
Cat food
Orange peels
Dirt
A piece of candy wrapper
2 flies
A spider
I’m pretty sure the kid will be fine chewing on a piece of birch.
For teething, maybe?
Slightly weird gift maybe but I dont understand why it would be dangerous or bad for the kid either?
If anything, overprotecting parents is probably a bigger danger today.
>My husband thinks its fine and said all german babies played with these
Did her husband grow up in the Weimar republic or something? lol
DDR Legos
Ja, so that Kinder start Bildung ze Blocks from en early Age.
According to § 1 Abs. 6 Satz 2 BauGB:
> Bei der Aufstellung der Bauleitpläne sind insbesondere zu berücksichtigen:
> (…)
> die Wohnbedürfnisse der Bevölkerung, insbesondere auch von Familien mit mehreren Kindern, die Schaffung und Erhaltung sozial stabiler Bewohnerstrukturen, die Eigentumsbildung weiter Kreise der Bevölkerung und die Anforderungen kostensparenden Bauens sowie die Bevölkerungsentwicklung.
English Translation:
> When preparing land-use plans, the following must be particularly taken into account:
> (…)
> the housing needs of the population, especially those of families with multiple children, the establishment and maintenance of socially stable residential structures, the promotion of property ownership among broad sections of the population, the requirements for cost-efficient construction, and demographic trends.
Sure, give him a bag of nails too, to toughen up the little fucker.
Who is Christ Hans?
yes, those are fine – next question
What species is the 11 month old? German shepherd?
My first born once eat a cigarette butt while playing on the floor. We were in a place drinking wine.
Most french education you can have i guess.
Birch is probably much safer to chew on than plastic. And at that age anything is interesting.
You should simply check non of the pieces are small enough to swallow. I heard the standard test is to put it through a toilet paper roll
Used to play with wood blocks and other things. Used to build little houses with wood glue and my fathers tools. Was some of the best fun i had. But tbf i was a little older than 11 months, so…
And with what i played when i was 11 months old is not exactly one if the things i can count to the stuff i remember.
Been living in Germany for 7 years, in East Germany too, have my own Germany baby and know lots of other people with German babies. Never seen any of them playing with stuff like this. Saying that I dont see the issue, unless the bark comes off and they eat it. Its a baby, it really does not care what its playing with.
Someone’s from Dresden
yeah, probably save. birch is quite soft, and as an outside toy these are probably and amazing tactile thing to touch, stack and wave around with. 10/10 would give those to my child too
I had a leashed chicken.
This is why Germans are such joyless adults, all we had to play with was off-cuts from a tree
You know it’s legit, because it’s pretty clean birch in portions too big to swallow. Birch is a good choice, i’ve seen so many Kita concepts with birch.
Very much swabian thing to do. …next give them wood blocks to start building houses.
Früh übt sich.
We need those future construction workers to fix crumbling infrastructure.
https://preview.redd.it/eaxk2vco1oue1.jpeg?width=976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fba840c11bf312f7cf7ef54c9facc0ecc173e4ec
Wood has anti bacterial properties. So from that perspective OK – ish.
Your kid gets their teeth. That hurts, sometimes blood is involved. They like to chew on things. Meh – a wash.
These seem rather sizable. I’d rather be concerned due to the edges hurting an eye…
German austerity so us PIGS can continue being leeches
KinderSweig: to promote only the most boring of creativity.
You know, Germany?
Dafuq is this shit? Where did he get that “knowledge” fron?
There’s a joke to be made here but reddit may not like it.
Get the baby an axe too. He can learn to be the family fire keeper
The secret recipe to how you get a Hans
Jokes aside, I don’t really see any problem. If the wood pieces are clean from sawdust and splinters, I think they should be safe for the baby as long as a parent is watching. Of course don’t leave the baby alone with those or they’ll find a way to stick half of them inside their nose and eat the other half, children are absolute geniuses when it comes to self harm. But it might be just me, after all we’re born from the sheep, made men by the sheep, undone by the sheep
German engineering 
Who brings pieces of wood as a gift for a baby? Is this a germanic thing I’m not autistic enough to understand?
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