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Originally Posted by bower
My friends brought their four year old on a mushroom hike last year - he was never left to pick, look at or much less even think about eating a mushroom, without an adult to examine every 'catch'. I'm sure the same applies to plants as Randall pointed out. Some berries are poisonous. You have to know what is good to eat or not, and parents who don't explain that to a child are negligent. Of course my parents took me berry picking as a child, and I don't remember when I was cautioned about the less common but yet poisonous berries that I might find - I was young enough that I don't remember not knowing that.
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The same here - I don't remember a time I did not know about poisonous berries in nature / garden. These days, there are kids who don't even recognize any edible ones and only eat what's offered in the supermarket. It's a shame.