I went over to my sister’s house recently to cook hamburgers. She told me not to cook hamburgers for my nephews because they won’t eat them. Just to play it safe, I asked my nephews if they wanted me to cook them hamburgers. They said no, “hamburgers are gross.”
After I finished cooking, I got everyone served their burgers, sat down, and then one of my nephews asked where his burger was. I told him that he said they’re gross and didn’t want one. He started crying and saying that he wanted a burger. So, to play it safe, I cooked up two burgers for both of my nephews and toasted the buns just like I did for everyone else.
Then they got upset that I ruined “the bread.” I asked if they wanted it not toasted. They said yes.
I move their patties to untoasted buns. They pick at the crust of the bun and say that they don’t like it and that hamburgers are disgusting.
So, I fixed them plates of their favorite foods.
At this point, their attention spans were fully expended and they pretty soon left to watch tv and play without eating much.
Come bedtime, they cried that they were hungry and needed some snacks. So they ate their snacks and went to bed feeling like this was a perfectly normal way to live their lives.
They were 5 and 3 at the time.
This is what Republicans are. Fucking toddlers who throw a tantrum when they don’t get what they want and say that they don’t want it when you give it to them.
My kids are 9 and 7 and this is nearly every dinner time for us over the last few months, it’s maddening
Don’t give in to terrorists. Male them eat plain white bread if they won’t eat what they are served.
No jelly. No peanut butter. Nothing to make it better. Just plain white bread or your supper you were served.
Caveat I don’t have kids.
Can’t kids just miss a meal if they don’t want to eat it? Not like a kid is going to die from one missed meal.
My nephews’ favorite things are mini cheese wheels, tortillas, and bread. You’re describing a well-balanced meal for them.
After the 3rd and final (albeit oopsie child), I started using my Mom’s saying:
“This isn’t a fucking restaurant; you get what you get and don’t throw a fit”.
I meal plan with ours, he helps decide what we’re eating for the week, and I get maybe one complaint a week instead of daily when I unilaterally made the plan.
Sometimes it’s as easy as “want taco Tuesday?”“yes”. "Manicotti Monday? " “Nah”
If anyone says no to an idea, they are next to suggest something, and take-out does not get planned unless there’s a good reason. I still sometimes squeeze things that I want to cook into the mix, but I’m usually ready with a backup.
Sometimes kids just want to have a level of agency even if the outcome is basically no different. This is a great idea. Whoever declines needs to present a substitute is also a great idea.
We’re working through that too. Have had success with making something they absolutely will eat (10/10) being on every plate, and adding some small amount of something they don’t love (5/10) that they need to take a bite out of. To earn a small dessert, they eat all of 10/10 and one reasonable bite of 5/10. If they’re still hungry later, they get noodles or cup-o-noodles.
After having to try the 5/10 over and over, they slowly build up a taste for it and it slowly moves up the chain until they’ll eat it.
For us, it works for everything but texture issues.
The comparison doesn’t really give them enough credit. If your nephews were doing all that in an effort to cast you/their parents as incapable or harmful to them, then we might be in the same ballpark.
These people aren’t doing this because they’re stupid (well, not all of them). They’re doing it because they can tell their voters it’s Biden’s fault and no of them will question it for a second.
That story just really grinded my gears into fine metal shavings … not because of your bratty nephews but because it perfectly illustrates America politics. Thanks for this.
I understand your desire to call my nephews “bratty” based on that story, but doing so really misses the point. Ask anyone who’s been around toddlers and you’ll find that this kind of story is the rule, not the exception. I’m not saying that Republicans are like “bratty” toddlers, they’re like toddlers in general.
They can’t help themselves but be emotional, short-sighted, selfish little shits who will piss themselves and throw food at you and blame everything on you because they don’t know how to be happy on their own or how to enjoy other people’s happiness. And the funniest fucking thing to them is watching other people get hurt.
My apologies for being unkind to your nephews. I have dozens of my own (I have a big family) and most of them are good but a few are definitely brats according to my definition.
I get your interpretation and you are right, republicans are behaving like children. And like unruly children, they need a bit of discipline in order to make them listen. At first you attempt to persuade them with reason and logic that you try to teach them … but if they still won’t listen, then you have to gradually escalate the levels of discipline. I don’t believe in corporal punishment for children … but for republican politicians, I’d make an exception and publicly spank them for creating this completely insane political environment.
Slight tangent here but…
Is it me or what the hell is going on with kids these days? They all say “don’t liky!!” and the parents go “okaaaay, here is some candy, then!”
When I was a kid you got food and you ate it. I mostly liked it but of there was a meal that wasn’t my favorite, then sucks to be me, gotta eat it. I never once told my mom they I didn’t like the food, as I knew she worked hard to prepare it, and I had some basic respect and decency and understanding that she was doing what was best for me.
It was the same for other kids as far as I could tell.
Now, all around me I see these families and ALL have the same with the kids. I’m not trying to say we need to go back to the “good ol’” 1950’s but for fracks sake, can we instill just a little bit of obedience and discipline in kids? Sometimes when a kid asks why it’s okay to say “because I said so” and a small slap in the butt when a kid goes all off the rails neither hurt anyone. It certainly didn’t hurt me when I tested for boundaries and was shown where those boundaries were. No, I’m not advocating violence in children, I’m advocating to put more limits to kids, I feel there is an imbalance.
Couldn’t agree more.
The only issue with applying this discussion is that there is a significant differences between me smacking one of my kids and someone else beating the shit out of theirs - but its viewed exactly the same.
I’ve told my kids before - I have to react to your behavior. Big difference between me and anyone else is that I will stop when I can. Act like that in public to anyone else and they won’t stop until you are on a feeding tube.
they got exactly what they wanted… a purposefully orchestrated disaster they could complain about for political reasons.
if only the people of florida werent so ignorant as to the actual causes of their problems.
if only the people of florida werent so ignorant
Gerrymandered seats, deluges of right-wing propaganda, and over 1.1 million people currently banned from voting, often because they cannot afford to pay court-ordered monetary sanctions. An estimated 934,500 Floridians who have completed their sentences remain disenfranchised, despite a 2018 ballot referendum that promised to restore their voting rights.
“Why are Florida voters so dumb?” is the wrong question.
A better question is “Why has the Civil Rights Division of the US DOJ under multiple administrations failed to intercede on behalf of these voters?”
The racket in Florida doesn’t hinge on “ignorant” people nearly so much as it hinges on segregation and political patronage. People who vote Republican are making a conscious and deliberate decision, with the expectation that they’ll get more as a mercenaries of a private corporation than as patriots in a public system.
You can argue their math is bad. But there are quite a few Floridians who have gotten filthy rich off the business-friendly rackets. They’ve got a vested financial interest in keeping the minority population under their heels, even if that does mean you get the occasional Congressclown who forgets to vote on hurricane relief until after the storm passes.
if only the people of florida werent so ignorant as to the actual causes of their problems.
Knowing you are an idiot doesn’t stop you from making idiot decisions in the future.
Not counting their inability to comprehend who their real enemies are - yeah the cause of your problems is Republicans
It’s always Florida. It’s always the republicans.
Vile trash. I’m sure she’ll take credit for it too because that’s the republican way.
Of course they do. These GOP traitors have no shame.
