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[Alaskan]

Yeah...I know, they gotta eat. But they are teens and nobody wants what I make anymore.

And I am not a horrible cook. I swear.

they are teens....make them cook.

 

[tntchix]

they are teens....make them cook.

that's great...in theory. reaity a whole nother dimension of insanity

 

[hennible]

 I am sorry....

Don't hug him Ron! he may abandon baby mommas and numerous Belligerent offspring with you

 

[hennible]

they are teens....make them cook.

Toddler can do scrambled eggs... With some help of course.
I'm hoping I can train them young, then once a week they will cook the family dinner... We shall see.

 

[Alaskan]

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totally........ but I am happy to let them starve if they can't figure out how to eat what is served them, and if they can't figure out how to feed themselves, when they are told they must.



But then, I grew up with a dad who always told me that kids that starve on occasion actually live longer.

So clearly, I am not a sweet and snugly parent. I am a be good, kind, obedient, or stay outside and don't enter my house and eat my food.

The sleeping inside, and eating and drinking of things that I buy, are only available to children that work happily and cheerfully. That includes eating food that they hate, or is burnt, or whatever. I don't make them clean their plates though. As long as they eat one bite happily, they are welcome to starve until the next meal, when something is offered that they prefer to eat.


ooooooooooh, can we all tell that my kids were fussy today?


WAHAHAHAHAHA!!

 

[tntchix]

totally........ but I am happy to let them starve if they can't figure out how to eat what is served them, and if they can't figure out how to feed themselves, when they are told they must.



But then, I grew up with a dad who always told me that kids that starve on occasion actually live longer.

So clearly, I am not a sweet and snugly parent. I am a be good, kind, obedient, or stay outside and don't enter my house and eat my food.

The sleeping inside, and eating and drinking of things that I buy, are only available to children that work happily and cheerfully. That includes eating food that they hate, or is burnt, or whatever. I don't make them clean their plates though. As long as they eat one bite happily, they are welcome to starve until the next meal, when something is offered that they prefer to eat.


ooooooooooh, can we all tell that my kids were fussy today?


WAHAHAHAHAHA!!

That is how I parent too.

There is no way they're going to starve in 2 days if they don't eat a meal.

The youngest actually does cook once a week but she isn't very good sadly, and will NOT follow directions to a recipe.

I am just at the point where it just doesn't matter to me if the perfect meal isn't on the table every night if I am the only one going to eat it.
If they complain, I use the phrase "fend then" and they do...but they still come to me at 4 and say what's for dinner?

 

[ozexpat]

my kids both proclaim there fave food is vegetables

nothing makes them cheer more than a big serving of veeggies on the table.

they normally eat boiled bananas or corn as there after school snack

 

[JW12]

@hennible .... Your new avi is the cutest thing ever!


Our oldest daughter who is married and has two kids still come over every Saturday and Sunday. They always say the same thing .... You don't have to feed us we have already eat! Then they eat lunch and dinner both!

 

[Amberjem]

nothing like home cookin

 

[LindaB220]

Linda, You'd be surprised how close our childhoods were! My father was a Baptist fanatic who wanted me to be a missionary, had me in church every time the church had service, (try 4 times a week), didn't let me date til I was 18, (I got around it somewhat), and Of course I paid him back by eloping to Mexico with a bullfighter! To my detriment mostly. I did get a degree in
Spanish out of it though. My dream was to be the head curator of a big zoo and be the one who home raised the baby tigers when the mother rejected them, (or any other wild babies that came to me.) I went to U>T>, never got to Texas A&M for my vet's degree, did do 3 yrs. toward a bachelors in nursing but never finished due to divorce. In a nut shell; are we still polar opposites?

Pretty much. Bahahha

Bullfighter. Love it, love it. I was not raised in a religious home. That was my only outlet for company. My Mom was so seriously disliked that I think they had a party when she died. And what's so sad about this, I'm not joking.. But she was my Mama and loved me better than anything. I lived with her the last 5 years of her life. And Daddy's.