The idea that people let their kids do what they want and feel all the time at meals, at bedtime, in conversation, resulting in kid-despotic behavior like this, is just so laughable (if it weren't also terribly sad). It's great to be spirited, opinionated, and have a personality! It's awful to refuse anything unfamiliar, offend people without noticing and grind their gears further when they react, and miss out on, you know, LIFE AND FRIENDSHIP AND FOOD!
But they're expressing themselves! Just turns out they have incredibly narrow and boorish selves? /o\
Yes, yes, a thousand times! There's a huge difference between teaching kids to think for themselves and to start handing them the tools to be independent adults and raising BRATS. I don't understand how that can be confusing (and assume that any argument to the contrary is disingenuous, truthfully.)
LOL. I heart you tunz.
OMG, she would never leave that spot! She would alternate between making a tight C and sprawling on her back, her too-warm belleh demanding snorgles.
My sister raised a kid like this. The kids call their parents by their first names, and while the son's a nice kid---well, most of the time----the daughter is a hellbeast. She thinks she's cute, though. I used to see her looking slyly around to see if people were appreciating her cuteness. Obviously her mom laughs at her antics under other circumstances.
We were at my brother's for some holiday and he got this expensive--and wonderful----beef roast and the kid wouldn't eat it. And delivered a lecture to the adults about it, too. The daughter just looked me in the eye and did something I flat out told her not to do, and so I did what I said I'd do----I took away a DVD player I'd set up for the kids. Then she ran around, going, "Am I bugging you yet? Am I bugging you yet? Am I bugging you yet?"
Those kids are heading for lonely teen and adult life, probably trying to 'buy' friends. I bet you'd have him eating all sorts of good stuff if you had him a week.
I figure all kids have one or two things that they just can't stand, and I don't mind working around that (my own son WILL NOT eat zucchini, and honestly gags when he's made to eat it. So he's not required to eat zucchini. Ditto for Peri and tomato sauce, so we make white sauce for her spaghetti.) But I have a cousin who was allowed to decide what he would and wouldn't eat - he's now in his thirties, and will still eat nothing but fried chicken, baked beans, pizza, and biscuits. He has terrible health problems. I'm sure you're shocked.
Oh, right, right. My son haaaaates cooked tomatoes (not sauce, but chunky tomatoes.) I hate brussel sprouts. But when someone offers you multiple alternatives and EVERY ONE OF THEM is something you "hate?" I mean, seriously: who the fuck hates SANDWICHES?
And yes - toddlers eat crayons, pet hair, and colored liquid from sippy cups, but no discernible foods, I think we all accept that. :D But a TEENAGER. no vegetables? NONE? No fruit?! Who the hell hates all fruit? ALL of it?! Pffft.
I just think it's such a sign of wastefulness and (imo) American largess. It's FOOD. Fucking eat it. People all over the world don't have the choice and options as those of us in First World countries, how freaking spoiled is that? Now, I'm not suggesting that people stuff themselves, but the WASTE! (You know my hatred of waste.) Bah.
Good for you! And that menu is making me hungry, om nom nom!
This is what got me too. She DELIVERED it to him. Plus the whole apologizing crap? I bet that if you don't do that for a few meals, he will eat other things rather than starve. o.0
All hot and ready for His Highness. 8:30pm. (We started eating at 7:15. I spent a looong time going through the pantry with him, and for anyone reading this, I have, um, an extensive pantry.) BRAT.
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But they're expressing themselves! Just turns out they have incredibly narrow and boorish selves? /o\
Heee, Hope! *turns on leetle warming pad for her*
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LOL. I heart you tunz.
OMG, she would never leave that spot! She would alternate between making a tight C and sprawling on her back, her too-warm belleh demanding snorgles.
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We were at my brother's for some holiday and he got this expensive--and wonderful----beef roast and the kid wouldn't eat it. And delivered a lecture to the adults about it, too. The daughter just looked me in the eye and did something I flat out told her not to do, and so I did what I said I'd do----I took away a DVD player I'd set up for the kids. Then she ran around, going, "Am I bugging you yet? Am I bugging you yet? Am I bugging you yet?"
Gah.
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Happy New Year btw!
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And to you, too!
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And hahaha, yes, I'm totally shocked. :D
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And yes - toddlers eat crayons, pet hair, and colored liquid from sippy cups, but no discernible foods, I think we all accept that. :D But a TEENAGER. no vegetables? NONE? No fruit?! Who the hell hates all fruit? ALL of it?! Pffft.
I just think it's such a sign of wastefulness and (imo) American largess. It's FOOD. Fucking eat it. People all over the world don't have the choice and options as those of us in First World countries, how freaking spoiled is that? Now, I'm not suggesting that people stuff themselves, but the WASTE! (You know my hatred of waste.) Bah.
Good for you! And that menu is making me hungry, om nom nom!
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All hot and ready for His Highness. 8:30pm. (We started eating at 7:15. I spent a looong time going through the pantry with him, and for anyone reading this, I have, um, an extensive pantry.) BRAT.
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