Precisely why I posted it... I've overheard parents threatening their misbehaving children that there will be no McDonald's for tea if they don't behave.
Are we too soft with our children/grandchildren?
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Precisely why I posted it... I've overheard parents threatening their misbehaving children that there will be no McDonald's for tea if they don't behave.
Silver Fox
Guru
When my kids were younger they both ate what was put infront of them although to be fair we knew what they liked and what they didn't.
When my eldest was a toddler my now ex-wife and I were trying to introduce him to a new fish meal, he could be a fussy eater at times.
I told him it was similiar to fishfingers to which he replied " I don't like similiar daddy ".
When my eldest was a toddler my now ex-wife and I were trying to introduce him to a new fish meal, he could be a fussy eater at times.
I told him it was similiar to fishfingers to which he replied " I don't like similiar daddy ".
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
This thread reminds me of this.
Salad Dodger
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kent Coast
I was in a - how can I put this tactfully?... - a low budget supermarket the other day, just getting a few odds and ends.
At the checkout with a cart full of shopping was a rather large, tattooed woman with her hair drawn back into what is colloquially known as a "Croydon facelift" - the sort of hairstyle that paralyses half the facial muscles.
Her urchin of a child was tinkering with the sweets near the till.
Mum: "Put them down"
Child: "No"
Mum: (with a face looking like a bulldog chewing a wasp) "What did you say?"
Child (Putting down the sweets and trotting back over to his mum) "Nothing mum"
I get the feeling that he is one child who his parents are not too soft on!
At the checkout with a cart full of shopping was a rather large, tattooed woman with her hair drawn back into what is colloquially known as a "Croydon facelift" - the sort of hairstyle that paralyses half the facial muscles.
Her urchin of a child was tinkering with the sweets near the till.
Mum: "Put them down"
Child: "No"
Mum: (with a face looking like a bulldog chewing a wasp) "What did you say?"
Child (Putting down the sweets and trotting back over to his mum) "Nothing mum"
I get the feeling that he is one child who his parents are not too soft on!
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
I just love my son. That's really all I have to say about this.
PaulSecteur
No longer a Specialized fanboy
- Location
- Walsall, West Mids.
My mum never did separate meals, But there was always 2 choices.
"You could eat it, or you could leave it... And you`re NOT going to leave it!"
Kinda reminds me of...
"You could eat it, or you could leave it... And you`re NOT going to leave it!"
Kinda reminds me of...
thom
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- Location
- The Borough
My impression of friends having kids is that such implementation details don't matter - it's the love that counts and that manifests in different ways.
One set of parents routinely bribes their 5 & 3 year olds, rewarding good behaviour with sushi...
One set of parents routinely bribes their 5 & 3 year olds, rewarding good behaviour with sushi...
