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suv75 · May 2013

I don't buy frozen nuggets or fish sticks either. But I couldn't care less if people feed their kids those things and still ask for healthy meal options. I think the moms here are genuinely trying for the most part, some kids just don't eat so they take what they can at that moment. It doesn't mean they don't and won't keep trying.

LuckyDad · May 2013

mbenit4:
I thought dandelions were flowers.

Scientifically you are correct. They're actually rather pretty, IMHO. I just hate the pokey leaves and how they bully everything else out. A wild field of dandelions can be beautiful.

suv75 · May 2013

mbenit4:
suv75:
mbenit4:
Moving on. Just add this to my list of things not to comment on.
Is the not jumping on couch part of this list?

No.

My couch, my rules. Your couch, your rules.

Oh, because you said you weren't allowed to comment when I asked how you manage to keep the kids off your couch. I thought there was a back story.

ReeseFox · May 2013

EllaHella:
mbenit4:
I don't get the selfie pics craze.
See, we can agree.
I don't either.

I don't get calling it a "selfie". I also don't understand "blowie". Is this supposed to make it cute somehow? Blow jobs are not cute.

suv75 · May 2013

ReeseFox:
EllaHella:
mbenit4:
I don't get the selfie pics craze.
See, we can agree. 
I don't either.
I don't get calling it a "selfie". I also don't understand "blowie". Is this supposed to make it cute somehow? Blow jobs are not cute. 

Wait, are we talking about the Selfie blog? I'm confused!

Kitiara5512 · May 2013

HilarityEnsued:
Late confession: I'm sort of judging this:

Dude, that looks like corsets for your feet. Or sausages with the casing snipped off the ends. Or just, blech. WTF.

Kitiara5512 · May 2013

morgann2010:
mbenit4:
I thought dandelions were flowers.
I thought they were, too, until I started working at Lowes and everyone came in looking for stuff to kill them. I still like them and prefer my lawn to have some dandelions instead of being totally green. That's boring.
Little pops of sunshine! Yay!

Dandelion wine time!!

Kitiara5512 · May 2013

mbenit4:

ygpm

LuckyDad · May 2013

EllaHella:
mbenit4:
I don't get the selfie pics craze.
See, we can agree.
I don't either.

Um, wasn't this a craze back when MySpace was popular?

Also, I'm not sure in the era of smartphones with cameras on both sides why people still use mirrors for self pics. Short stumpy arms?

I'm old.

LuckyDad · May 2013

RondackHiker:
A third confession: a friend's husband gives me the creeps. I mean, he's a nice guy and I care about him, but I feel uncomfortable and tense around him at the same time. I feel bad bc I am sure he'd be hurt that I don't trust him, but something about him makes me jumpy.

I don't think I like ANY of my wife's friend's husbands. They range from "I will not spend time around that guy" to "He's fine, if a little boring." The only couple off the top of my head I really want to spend time with is a case where she actually was friends with the guy first.

Basically, DW's friends picked boring and douchey guys to marry :P

LuckyDad · May 2013

MrsSkull1107:

My boobs are currently glorious. I've never had big boobs but these things on my chest right now are beautiful!
FFFC: I've been enjoying looking at them in the mirror. I want H to enjoy them but I'm a little afraid they will leak milk on him if he does. But I think it might be worth it. These are the nicest my boobs have ever looked (and probably ever will) so he ought to get to enjoy them since they're his only boobs too.

Yes

Definitely get while the getting is good.

LuckyDad · May 2013

Scout2005:
Holls2011:
I have a question for those with extremely picky toddlers/children.
Were they always very picky or did they all of a sudden become picky? DS is very weird with solid veggies. He loves pureed veggies, but try sticking a piece of broccoli on his plate and he refuses. He is getting a little better and has been eating cucumbers, corn and peas, but very infrequently. I resort to pouches a lot to make sure he is getting his veggies.
She has always, always, always been picky. From purees on.

I'm crossing my fingers that DS will continue to be a little garbage disposal who shoves anything we put in front of him into his little mouth. He occasionally is picky, but that seems to be mostly when he's just not feeling very hungry. As long as we let HIM do it, he'll eat. He gets mad if we try to feed him and don't let him make a mess like he prefers to.

lindsay.lou · May 2013

Holls2011:
I have a question for those with extremely picky toddlers/children.nbsp; Were they always very picky or did they all of a sudden become picky?nbsp; DS is very weird with solid veggies.nbsp; He loves pureed veggies, but try stickingnbsp;a piece of broccoli on his plate and he refuses.nbsp; He is getting a little better and has been eating cucumbers, corn and peas, but very infrequently.nbsp; I resort to pouches a lot to make sure he is getting his veggies.nbsp;

We're in the exact same boat. DS1 will eat ANY vegetable in pouch form. Anything. But he will eat precious few whole veggies or fruit. So when he refuses whatever veggie dh I are having for dinner, I resort to a pouch so he gets SOME veggie and fruit. This has created a monster because now he knows he can hold out and get a pouch.

I do think he is genuinly picky, but I recognize and own that I sometimes enable the pickiness by giving in. Luckily DS2 so far seems way more accepting of different foods.

I don't think there is ANYTHING parenting related that I'm more jealous of than people who have adventurous eaters. I WANT THEIR LIFE!

grr_aargh · May 2013

lindsay.lou:
Holls2011:
I have a question for those with extremely picky toddlers/children.nbsp; Were they always very picky or did they all of a sudden become picky?nbsp; DS is very weird with solid veggies.nbsp; He loves pureed veggies, but try stickingnbsp;a piece of broccoli on his plate and he refuses.nbsp; He is getting a little better and has been eating cucumbers, corn and peas, but very infrequently.nbsp; I resort to pouches a lot to make sure he is getting his veggies.nbsp;
We're in the exact same boat. DS1 will eat ANY vegetable in pouch form. Anything. But he will eat precious few whole veggies or fruit. So when he refuses whatever veggie dh I are having for dinner, I resort to a pouch so he gets SOME veggie and fruit. This has created a monster because now he knows he can hold out and get a pouch. I do think he is genuinly picky, but I recognize and own that I sometimes enable the pickiness by giving in. Luckily DS2 so far seems way more accepting of different foods. I don't think there is ANYTHING parenting related that I'm more jealous of than people who have adventurous eaters. I WANT THEIR LIFE!

I feel this way when people have kids who sleep.

Even just for, like, a day or two.

Kitiara5512 · May 2013

Last night, C ate a couple of baby carrots and maybe 4 cubes of cheese? He wanted water, not milk, not even chocolate milk. So that was dinner.

Other days, he will eat anything we have in our plates, as long as its from our plate and we spoonfeed him and not expect him to feed himself.

And then sometimes he eats whatthefuckever we feed him.

grr_aargh · May 2013

Scout2005:
mbenit4:
Scout2005:
mbenit, your language/approach in the various toast/fish stick/chicken nugget comments? That would be what people are talking about when they get frustrated with you here sometimes.

I don't think I have an approach. I think people are fake. One minute someone will post asking for healthy dinner recipes. Everyone flocks to that. Then someone says my kid eats a slice a bread for dinner. No one blinks an eye? Just me?

I thought we were supposed to be "attempting" to present healthy meals to the little ones in an "attempt" to get them to eat it. So no, I don't buy fish sticks and nuggets. I don't understand how a nugget in the freezer is homemade?

So no it is not an approach. You guys truly floor me some days with the contradictions. Some days I am genuinely shocked and outdone. I must be from another planet.

Equate it with the not returning the shopping cart feeling some of you get. That is the feeling I get when I see everyone be like "oh ok." Really?
You are impossibly dense.
It's really remarkable, honestly.
eta This isn't about WHAT you say, it's about HOW you say it. For the eleventy billionth time. Stop deflecting and gain an ounce of self awareness, FFS. I beg of you.
eta2 I love the assumption on your part that if a kid will only eat PB toast it's because the mother isn't "doing enough." I cook every single morning, noon and night. I work from home and make the vast majority of our meals. You are not a special snowflake because you cook. Many of us do.
She's picky because she's picky. Not because of my lack of effort.

When my oldest was 9 months old, she ate curry one night and I remember feeling so smug. Clearly, I was the best mother in the universe and butterflies landed on my shoulders and birds sang "All the good mothering things you do are the best mothering things, all should bow to you." Then I had 2 & 3 and all of everyone's eating went to shiiip and Reality came down, stomped on my head and said "That's what you get for being smug, yo."

I hate dinnertime.

LuckyDad · May 2013

Confession: I want there to be a FFS thread, but I don't want to be the one to start it.

Maybe I should just go work more. *Sad Trombone*

ETA: Yay, new page! :P

Runaway22 · May 2013

All the pics I have of myself preggers are "selfies." In my defense, that was really my only option. But still. A tad embarrassing.

jorkz821 · May 2013

Kitiara5512:
Last night, C ate a couple of baby carrots and maybe 4 cubes of cheese? He wanted water, not milk, not even chocolate milk. So that was dinner.Other days, he will eat anything we have in our plates, as long as its from our plate and we spoonfeed him and not expect him to feed himself.And then sometimes he eats whatthefuckever we feed him.

This is us too. Some data are great, and I'm like Really? You want MORE?? But then other days she eats like 2 bites.

J+MS · May 2013

Hey, remember the FF vs BF debate, where one mommy was better than the other ones because her kid just naturally took the boob right away? yea.

grr_aargh · May 2013

EllaHella:
My kid eats awesome. Sux you guys don't do as much as me.

My child has a varied diet that today included one wing from a queen aunt, a handful of organic grass, one full basil plant, three pieces of gum, and the end of a water balloon.

It's no wonder she only ate noodles for dinner.

Kitiara5512 · May 2013

mbenit4:
EllaHella:
Gawd. I hope boogers are nutritious. Cause my kid can eat a lot of those.
Eww!

This was too much for me.

I am waiting for C to do this. EW.

LuckyDad · May 2013

mbenit4:
I have a FFFC, it isn't midnight here yet -
I am scared of clowns. The Poltergeist looking one. I could not have that in my house.

I hate clowns.

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