Teen won't drink water in school unless I get her a Stanley Cup

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Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with you people? Really, letting your kid suffer for a water bottle OP? She’s not asking for a car. I got news for you, your kids don’t always agree with you and value what you value. My father made fun of things I wanted as a kid from better clothing to drinking mineral water and liking sushi. Now that jerk likes the same things.

My kid can value what she wants with her own money. We give her an allowance for this reason. If she wants to value it with MY money, she has to make the case for it. That case, also has not to be a stupid stunt of refusing to drink water. If she wants to be a little terrorist, she's earned this modest amount of suffering.

That you're calling it a stunt demonstrates how completely out of touch you are. Why isn't her kid using the water fountain? Do kids make fun of water fountain users as they walk by? Do you know either way? But that builds character, right?

If kids are genuinely being bullied for using the water fountain, then I'm definitely not buying the cup. I'm not encouraging my kid conform herself to that culture.

I was bullied a ton in middle school. My clothes were from Walmart and people made fun of me for that. I remember what that's like, but I'm a better person today for how my parents handled that. I got the clothes I got, and if I wanted something else I used my own money. You know what happened? I got a job and suddenly spending my little money on BS to please kids at school seemed stupid. It is stupid.

But listen, no one is forbidding you from buying your kid this cup, I guess someone has to raise the bullies.

Who's to say you wouldn't have been an even better person if you hadn't been bullied at all?

DP. WTF? Are you blaming a person for being bullied because they didn't waste money on clothes to please a bunch of immature middle schoolers. I just can't with people who think that kind of stuff is okay.

Any decent parent should not buy in to this nonsense and should not teach their child that following fads is important. This is why their are so many selfish, shallow, mean people in the world.

Do you forgo all fads? Nothing in your house to the contrary?

Are you still a teen? What kind of crap are you buyings to still fit in? And fit in with whom? That's the stupidest shit I've read all day. I'm glad my parents didn't buy me every thing I ever asked for as a kid. I'm better off for it. You learn that the world won't end if you don't get the newest shiny item and there will always be a new shiny in thing to have. Nobody can have everything.

Agreed. We buy cars and appliances based on need following research etc.

I don't understand adult strivers. Grow up people.

Do the clothes you're currently buying help you fit in? What kind of car do you drive? Any rarely used exercise equipment? Something cool in the kitchen?

Negative on all of the above. Something cool in the kitchen? What are you even talking about? No, we are not all sad trend chasers.

You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

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Anonymous wrote:There is middle ground between "buy every trend" and "never give in to trends" I occasionally buy trendy things and sometimes I buy no name stuff. I think most people are like that. Maybe buy the Stanley and see where it leads, you can always have a conversation if you feel like it's getting out of hand.

True, but I think Op’s daughter has a really bad attitude about this and I don’t think she should be rewarded with a Stanley for it. Saying the other cups are trashy and saying she’s going be judged by using one is I’m mentality that I think should not be rewarded. Refusing to drink water because she doesn’t have a Stanley cup is worse than the behavior of a bratty two-year-old. This is why I wouldn’t get her one. I would be having a completely different reaction if her daughter would be having a different attitude.

I have commented on here before that it’s a relatively harmless and benign trend. It’s dumb, but harmless. But if you want to follow a trend, you need to have a better attitude.

I'm more anti-trendy cup than you are I think (for us, it's a lot of money), but the bolded is really key for me. Thinking other kids are going to make fun of you can be a chance to talk about bullying, but thinking other cups are trashy is the mindset of a bully, not a bullying victim. I don't want to hear the word "trashy" leave my kid's mouth, it's too close to the kinds of things my family got called growing up. She's not so far removed from being called PWT that I'm going to ignore that.

This. OP, you’re focusing on the wrong thing. Your daughter’s attitude is pretty f*cked up.

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Anonymous wrote:Her skin and health are not suffering going 8 hours without drinking water. If she's thirsty, she'll drink. Frankly she probably IS drinking and is just manipulating you so you'll buy her the Stanley.

Agree. The problem I take isn’t necessarily wanting a Stanley. It’s her refusal to drink water from anything other than a Stanley is problematic and manipulative. Hard no to that. Drinking fountain, milk carton, or nothing.

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I would offer it as an early birthday/easter/whatever present. And then hold her to that when that time came around.

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You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

Oh, aren't you edgy? Next, you'll learn how to properly quote.

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You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

Oh, aren't you edgy? Next, you'll learn how to properly quote.

But you got the point didn't you?

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You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

Oh, aren't you edgy? Next, you'll learn how to properly quote.

But you got the point didn't you?

I'm wondering if anyone is ever going to explain what it would be "cool" to have in the kitchen, because I genuinely have no idea.

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You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

Oh, aren't you edgy? Next, you'll learn how to properly quote.

But you got the point didn't you?

Not at all. Tons of kitchen gadgets come out every year that go far/beyond old school pots & pans. It's an enormous market. And there's probably something that fits that description in everybody's kitchen.

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You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

Oh, aren't you edgy? Next, you'll learn how to properly quote.

Sounds like you don’t have a water distiller. Loser!

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You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

Oh, aren't you edgy? Next, you'll learn how to properly quote.

But you got the point didn't you?

I'm wondering if anyone is ever going to explain what it would be "cool" to have in the kitchen, because I genuinely have no idea.

I like my 4 slice toaster, it's saved a lot of arguments in the morning so my kids can't argue over whose bagel gets toasted first. But I don't think it helps me fit in or make other parents like me more.

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You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

Oh, aren't you edgy? Next, you'll learn how to properly quote.

But you got the point didn't you?

I'm wondering if anyone is ever going to explain what it would be "cool" to have in the kitchen, because I genuinely have no idea.

Really? Are you new to Google? I see you managed to navigate a message board.

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The Washington Capitals went over 40 years without a Stanley Cup and they did just fine

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You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

Oh, aren't you edgy? Next, you'll learn how to properly quote.

But you got the point didn't you?

Not at all. Tons of kitchen gadgets come out every year that go far/beyond old school pots & pans. It's an enormous market. And there's probably something that fits that description in everybody's kitchen.

Yes but how does it make anyone fit in more? That PPs point is nonsensical.

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You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

Oh, aren't you edgy? Next, you'll learn how to properly quote.

But you got the point didn't you?

I'm wondering if anyone is ever going to explain what it would be "cool" to have in the kitchen, because I genuinely have no idea.

Really? Are you new to Google? I see you managed to navigate a message board.

Google will tell me things I can buy for my kitchen, but that doesn't really answer the question. What are you buying for your kitchen that you bought to fit in with the cool kids?

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You beat me to it. What the hell is “something cool in the kitchen?” I have the raddest old cast iron pan. Is this vintage awesomeness? And let me brag about my water distiller… You’re not cool if you don’t have a water distiller! On Wednesdays, my friends and I distill water, wearing pink.

Oh, aren't you edgy? Next, you'll learn how to properly quote.

But you got the point didn't you?

Not at all. Tons of kitchen gadgets come out every year that go far/beyond old school pots & pans. It's an enormous market. And there's probably something that fits that description in everybody's kitchen.

What? Hahahaha