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[dysfunction]

Did you all eat meals with your parents?

For those with small humans, do you eat with your children?

Yes. We all sit at the dining room table.

 

[DaGaffer]

Did you all eat meals with your parents?

For those with small humans, do you eat with your children?

No, and yes. When I was a kid my Dad was away on the rigs a lot and my Mum worked, so mealtimes as a family were actually special occasions.

Now I have kids we eat as a family as much as possible; I'd say five days out of seven unless I'm doing a lot of lates at work, but even then I prefer to go home, spend some time with the kids and then work after they've gone to bed.

 

[Gwadien]

Yes. We all sit at the dining room table.

You have kids?

 

[Tom]

A friend of mine who used to be a nanny had a couple of kids once who would only eat pudding and custard. That's all their parents could feed them. It took her a few weeks, but she put her foot down, ignored their cries and complaints, and forced them to eat properly. Now, they do.

There's nothing special about children, unless it's an illness like anorexia, they're not so stubborn that they can starve themselves.

 

[soze]

Because she knows that works and she can get her own way.

Got a friends kid who pisses herself when she doesn't get her own way or as a punishment. But only when it's her mum taking her out. She won't get away with it with her dad - he'll let her sit in it, wet and uncomfortable, and make it known to the kid that it's her own fault and she has to take responsibility for that.

So she never does it round her dad, but her soft-touch mum has a hard life.

That kid should be left to cry until she throws up. Then she should be offered a proper meal. And if she doesn't eat it then she goes hungry. And she *never* gets given chicken nuggets again. Period. Then she'll come around quickly enough...

Or they will have their child taken away for starving her.

 

[Scouse]

Or they will have their child taken away for starving her.

That's fekking ridiculous.

The kid will eat. It would not starve itself to death. I bet thats the sort of shit those parents say to justify their lack of spine before caving in and serving it the nuggets...

 

[Scouse]

He's gone to bed (theoretically) hungry, and simply not given a crap.

He rules

Bet he ate a proper breakfast the next day.

 

[Gwadien]

That's fekking ridiculous.

The kid will eat. It would not starve itself to death. I bet thats the sort of shit those parents say to justify their lack of spine before caving in and serving it the nuggets...

I think @soze is saying that's how ridiculous it is - the child will be reported for being starved.

 

[Scouse]

I think @soze is saying that's how ridiculous it is - the child will be reported for being starved.

I think that's bullshit tbh. Most parents go through something similar.

However, even in the massively unlikely eventuality that they did get reported the CPO'd turn up, see that the parents were offering nutritious meals but having a problem with the child accepting them and go away satisfied saying "seen this a million times, they can be brats cant' they?, hold your nerve and good luck"...

 

[Gwadien]

I think that's bullshit tbh. Most parents go through something similar.

However, even in the massively unlikely eventuality that they did get reported the CPO'd turn up, see that the parents were offering nutritious meals but having a problem with the child accepting them and go away satisfied saying "seen this a million times, they can be brats cant' they?, hold your nerve and good luck"...

Alternatively you have a council that will ridiculously over-react and have support workers with you, watching every step that you take - to ensure a Baby P case doesn't happen again, I know this, my mum does it

 

[Trem]

For those with small humans, do you eat with your children?

I don't actually own @Jupitus we are just quite close.





Oh erm I don't eat with my family, they eat at the table and I eat in front of the telly. Their eating noises would drive me to murder.

 

[Moriath]

Did you all eat meals with your parents?

For those with small humans, do you eat with your children?

Always. When we were growing up. Unless my dad was on a shift that couldnt accomodate it.

 

[Scouse]

Alternatively you have a council that will ridiculously over-react and have support workers with you, watching every step that you take - to ensure a Baby P case doesn't happen again, I know this, my mum does it

They won't have the resources to do that in every "baby not eating" case. That's why at worst you'd get a visit, be assessed as "not a risk", and then "sorry for the intrusion"...

 

[Gwadien]

They won't have the resources to do that in every "baby not eating" case. That's why at worst you'd get a visit, be assessed as "not a risk", and then "sorry for the intrusion"...

Not true.

My mum (from what I gather) deals with a surprisingly amount of 'normal' families, because certain boxes have been ticked, she has to stick with them, even though she classes it a waste of time.

Imagine going to work with a family who has a child that didn't eat at school, going to the home of this family and it turns out they have older siblings, which seem to be perfectly working parents, but you HAVE to tell them the 'correct' way to do things.

As I say.

It's to prevent Baby P cases.

 

[Scouse]

Randomly annoying thing: I've cut short a holiday in Wales to come home for an interview this afternoon for a monday start. I've just rung the agent who's waffling about maybe doing the interview on Monday instead and asking about skills they weren't actually asking for previously.

Basically, I think I've been sold a rum 'un and instead of being on my bike in Brenin right now I'm sat on my settee waiting for a phone call that I reckon now isn't going to fucking happen

 

[Scouse]

Stuff

Fine. If that's what the reality of being a parent in Blighty is now, tough titties.

It doesn't change the fact that those parents need to enforce rules about how their kids eat. If they get unnecessary governmental interference then that's a problem with how the government handles things but it doesn't change how they should be handling making sure their kid eats proper food...

 

[Gwadien]

Fine. If that's what the reality of being a parent in Blighty is now, tough titties.

It doesn't change the fact that those parents need to enforce rules about how their kids eat. If they get unnecessary governmental interference then that's a problem with how the government handles things but it doesn't change how they should be handling making sure their kid eats proper food...

There's the official rule book on how to get your children to eat healthy without offending

• Christians
• Homosexuals
• Muslims
• Jews
• Hindus
• Sikhs
• Vegetarians
• Presbyterians
• Pescatarians
• Vegans
• Soldiers
• Tories
• Aliens from Mars
• Aliens from Jupiter
• Aliens from Pluto
• Aliens from Mercury
• Women
• Men
• Non-descript Genders

That's about it.

I feel sorry for the dogs

 

[fettoken]

@Scouse isn't on that list though.

 

[Gwadien]

@Scouse isn't on that list though.

Last one.

 

[Scouse]

 

[Gwadien]

m8

fixed

 

[~Yuckfou~]

Nope. No food in Montessori and then he's with his Mum the rest of the day.

Well you need to get him out of the house immediately he's clearly evil.
There was something on TV a while ago and they disguised foods that kids wouldn't eat in other foods that they like. I'm trying to think of the examples but I wasn't really paying attention. Maybe something like mix some mashed veggies in a burger so the kid gets some veggies. Seemed to work.

 

[Raven]

The word misogynistic, now used so much it has lost any meaning but still spouted by every feminazi at every given opportunity.

 

[Scouse]

The word misogynistic, now used so much it has lost any meaning but still spouted by every feminazi at every given opportunity.

The word feminazi, now used so much it's become the default title of belittlement for any woman who has a point of grievance - valid or not.

 

[DaGaffer]

Well you need to get him out of the house immediately he's clearly evil.
There was something on TV a while ago and they disguised foods that kids wouldn't eat in other foods that they like. I'm trying to think of the examples but I wasn't really paying attention. Maybe something like mix some mashed veggies in a burger so the kid gets some veggies. Seemed to work.

Tried that. Chia seeds are apparently the way to sneak protein in to fussy eaters. Its hit and miss. I'd say 7 times out of 10 he spots it.

 

[Bigmac]

That's fekking ridiculous.

The kid will eat. It would not starve itself to death. I bet that's the sort of shit those parents say to justify their lack of spine before caving in and serving it the nuggets...

That's not always the case. When I was a child I starved myself for 3 days and would have gone longer till my parents put me back on the food that I would eat. That's not healthy, especially coupled with a illness that makes putting on weight hard (Crohn's). For some people its psychological as my eating disorder started by me choking on mash potatoes (first time trying them) when I was a small child. I thought I was going to die as it was pretty bad but afterwards I refused to eat anything new even if it looked delicious. My parent's tried everything, they took me to doctors, therapists etc and nothing worked.

I am now 30 years old, 6 foot, 14 stone and my diet is still crap even though I've managed to add a few new things to it. I love eating a well done steak for example but if you stick a Sunday dinner or a full English breakfast in front of me I would refuse to eat it, I would feel sick etc. I want to eat like a normal person but my brain refuses to let me if that makes any sense.

 

[dysfunction]

You have kids?

Yes two of them

 

[fettoken]

That's not always the case. When I was a child I starved myself for 3 days and would have gone longer till my parents put me back on the food that I would eat. That's not healthy, especially coupled with a illness that makes putting on weight hard (Crohn's). For some people its psychological as my eating disorder started by me choking on mash potatoes (first time trying them) when I was a small child. I thought I was going to die as it was pretty bad but afterwards I refused to eat anything new even if it looked delicious. My parent's tried everything, they took me to doctors, therapists etc and nothing worked.

I am now 30 years old, 6 foot, 14 stone and my diet is still crap even though I've managed to add a few new things to it. I love eating a well done steak for example but if you stick a Sunday dinner or a full English breakfast in front of me I would refuse to eat it, I would feel sick etc. I want to eat like a normal person but my brain refuses to let me if that makes any sense.

So's your name Big Mac or do you eat lots of Bigmacs?

 

[Raven]

Are you Ken's dick cheese?

 

[Raven]

Farting when there is nobody around to appreciate it.

Wife is away and I just dropped an A-bomb. The cat looks disgruntled but I miss my wife having to leave the room.