Did you dramatically throw the casserole out of the void of the egress window?***

being a now assistant to the head ball inflator, it is insane to me how these mothers (no offense kms135) raise their children.

Almost all of the kids I deal with on a daily basis are raised by mothers with either no male in the house, or a weak male in the house.

Just to give an example from last night:

Wife of finally decides that our kids need to expand their pallet more than just chicken nuggets and Raman.

Fine, I've been saying that all along but didn't have any support.

So last night she makes a fajita casserole. It was terrible, but there's a life lesson in this.

We start off with they have to eat half of a fajita each. Then once we started eating and realized how awful it was, we decided they only had to eat one bite.

Son of started crying before even fixing his plate because we were "making him" do something. eyeroll.gif

So I, knowing what I have to deal with on a daily basis with parents who put their foot down and then pick it back up at the slightest inconvenience, makes the decision that no, you will eat one bite.

Wife of is ready to throw in the towel, go back on what she said, give up like a lot of the parents I deal with on a daily basis.

Son of ate one bite through tears.

Wife of is now mad with me because I made him and his sister eat one bite like we said they had to. Daughter of ate her bite no problem.

Am I the ####### here?

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Feb 22, 2024, 9:46 AM

I'll address the easy topic first...food.

We are in the same friggin boat haha. My 2 year old will eat hot dogs, chicken nugs, spaghetti / meatballs, pizza, YELLOW mac and cheese, and that's about it really.

She used to anihilate any pasta we'd fix, during the week I'll cook some noodles w/ alfredo. Nope, has to be the yellow mac and cheese now.

Meat wise, she's getting there. She'll eat steak now (ofc), lamb (omfc), pork chops (kind of), fish sticks, and she surprisingly loved salmon? need to re-test that.

Veggies wise it's brocolli + cheese or bust. won't eat no beans, and likes sayin sweet taters more than eating em, etc. etc.

The broader theme of kids lacking father figures...

This is a multi-generational problem. IMO it started w/ the boomers post WW2 with the expansion of suburbia and urbanization of the workforce, and has continued a negative trend sense. It's really messing up relationship dynamics, male patriarchy, and just in general how dudes are perceived in society.

Definitely a broader philosophical conversation that I'm SURE would go absolutely GREAT here and/or in taggernet.pol. haha.

Outside of economics, and my daughters having a strong female to look up to in my wife, one of my main reasons behind my wife working and us splitting as much as possible is for this phenomenon that I think is often overlooked as a root cause to a lot of issues in society.

You hear some guys be like: wife raises kids, I work, wife stay home, wife do everything. ok.....that's fine, and I'm sure has some advantages. But I have close "friends" with this mentality/set-up that are absent from day-to-day parenting, which, IMO, has a much higher long-term risk profile (both at the individual and societal level) than sending your child to daycare / school / etc.

Couple this with the massive disparity in female to male teachers...and really kids are exposed to nearly 3:1 ratio of women:men.

If you can't form an objective opinion, right/wrong/indifferent, that the male patriarchy (in the West especially), is dissolving, then this conversation is a moot point.

If you do accept that, and you don't accept that millions of years of evolution support having a strong male patriarchy, then again, this conversation is a moot point and will be driven by emotion.

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Not P&R, but kids need their fathers desperately

What are you carrying on about?***

Sorry

TLDR: I'm an #######, here's a gif

These women.....

Thank God for daddy issues***

Any women that called me Daddy during sex was messed up.

Wife of asked me if I wanted her to call me daddy in bed

Like she's talking to a State Trooper?***

Re: Like she's talking to a State Trooper?***

No void. Dude put in the cut one for now until the new one comes in

I'm gonne read the future for you

Doesn't matter if I do or don't. He's already done all of the hard work

Apparently, its not as easy as you think.

I think its really important to expand your kids pallets

That worked for my first two, but the third is about 10 lbs underweight and

Re: That worked for my first two, but the third is about 10 lbs underweight and

Yeah. We struggled with getting our little dude to eat from basically birth.

My son is very small. We thought he had an endocrine issue when he was little

He has you trained just right***

My son loves sushi. Because I made him try it at the resturant.***

The real question here is, why was the fajita casserole so bad?

Agreed. Seems relatively easy

My wife use to be a great cook. Then I started loving cooking

One it was too spicy and two we cooked it for an hour but the onions

She get the recipe off Tik Tok? My wife sends me instagram reels with recipes

Yes. That's all I get anymore is tik tok recipes***

You can fit 6 or 7 kids on a pallet if you stack em right

okay steve.***

Depends on the style pallet as well***

I thought about a pallet joke but then it seemed it wouldnt be in good

Re: I thought about a pallet joke but then it seemed it wouldnt be in good

Thanks for saving me the trouble of explaining homophones this morning.

Too late. Already homophoned

Im thinking the room is still missing pallet vs palate.***

Maybe Clemson DOES need to up the percentage of out of state students

I'm reading through this thread, thinking everybody's in on the joke and

Actually it's spelled "palace"***

Took McJr to soccer practice last night and coach let me step in at

Re: Took McJr to soccer practice last night and coach let me step in at

This is a good excuse to revisit the Peyton SNL skit.

Man, that is good. Really they were abusing me

My MIL gave me some crap about my kids not eating seafood

My mother and MIL are push overs. Pizza, chicken nuggets, and tea

tea is disgusting

You are absolutely correct

I'd wager a large amount of money that your doctor will switch you off

I don't drink tea unless I'm at a restaurant. My kids drink it like they are

Oh Greenr

I know you never asked, but there is something wrong with you***

Also, in today's least surprising revelation:

We buy the bulk pack from Sam's Club***

aero called and wants his post back***

lot to unpack here

2 year olds are just ########

My kids eat a diverse array of Mediterranean, mexican, greek, and chinese

I've found most males to get "reasonable" around age 25-30

And to your other point, there's a happy medium. I work, my wife works

I went on a field trip last month and it was a nightmare.

Parents in my generation and the generation older than I are awful

Lutz..you couldn't afford a week on IOP

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