Parenting Megathread

bilby said:

bigfield said:

sue the toilet

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bigfield said:

*I'm not fixing "sue the toilet"

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Apparently it was one of the infant Trump's first "big-boy" achievements too

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And apparently an accomplishment that he seems to be losing.

All I can say with the fussy eating is "textures" are as important as "flavors"...sometimes. Best of luck on that. My daughter eats too much mac and cheese and grilled cheeses... in a house where her parents can cook well. She likes mangoes, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and canned fruit too. Hates tomato sauce. OI! Drives me up the wall. "Can we go out to eat?" 'You are just going to have mac and cheese, we do that at home.' "GRUMP!"

Jimmy Higgins said:

All I can say with the fussy eating is "textures" are as important as "flavors"...sometimes. Best of luck on that. My daughter eats too much mac and cheese and grilled cheeses... in a house where her parents can cook well. She likes mangoes, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and canned fruit too. Hates tomato sauce. OI! Drives me up the wall. "Can we go out to eat?" 'You are just going to have mac and cheese, we do that at home.' "GRUMP!"

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There was a time when the only things my youngest would eat were strawberries, cottage cheese and chicken nuggets.

When I was about five, there was a period when the only thing I would eat was peanut butter sandwiches.

When I was a kid, it was normal for certain kitchen staples to be missing. My siblings and I would get creative with whatever was on hand, like making mayonnaise and jelly sandwiches or using hot water and coffee creamer for cereal. We made do with what we had.

Gospel said:

When I was a kid, it was normal for certain kitchen staples to be missing. My siblings and I would get creative with whatever was on hand, like making mayonnaise and jelly sandwiches or using hot water and coffee creamer for cereal. We made do with what we had.

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Did you ever make hot water soup?

I definitely relied very heavily on pasta when feeding my kids. For one thing, they’d all eat it. For another, it was no big deal to leave off the sauce when one or another would declare they hated it.

I used to also heavily rely on the frozen vegetable medley—even if the kid had sworn off of peas or carrots or whatever, there was always something else in the mix that they’d eat. And we always had carrots and celery and apples and oranges. And some kind of cheese. Did not always have meat—in fact we were vegetarian for a good long while. Still do a lot of meatless meals.

thebeave said:

Gospel said:

When I was a kid, it was normal for certain kitchen staples to be missing. My siblings and I would get creative with whatever was on hand, like making mayonnaise and jelly sandwiches or using hot water and coffee creamer for cereal. We made do with what we had.

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Did you ever make hot water soup?

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thebeave said:

Gospel said:

When I was a kid, it was normal for certain kitchen staples to be missing. My siblings and I would get creative with whatever was on hand, like making mayonnaise and jelly sandwiches or using hot water and coffee creamer for cereal. We made do with what we had.

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Did you ever make hot water soup?

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lol No, but we did resort to things like eating newspaper with pictures of food on it because we couldn’t wait until our mother’s next paycheck. Our neighbors, while kind, were just as badly off as we were, so there wasn’t much we could ask of them. I’ll tell you what, though, the school was a lifesaver. Not only did they provide free breakfast and lunch, but they also let us take home food that other students didn’t want from their packed lunches. At first, the school treated it like a theft issue, but when they realized the students were willingly giving us their servings, they backed off. They still grumbled about it, but in the end, they chose to just look the other way. The issue started when a student brought their own lunch but still collected their free school meal and gave it to me. Eventually, my bookbag gave me away, the smell of pancake syrup filled the classroom, and the jig was up.

Edit:: To clarify the newspaper thing, we didn’t actually go through with eating it. We put it in our mouths but quickly spat it out, then pointed fingers and laughed at each other for how ridiculous we were being. Everyone making fun of the other one for being an idiot. that sibling stuff.