My sister just tried to stage a parenting intervention with me, basically

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, feeding little kids Burger King is trashy. Your sister was trying to help you wake up. Obviously it's easier for you to jump online and play the victim than it is to be a good mother.

Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, feeding little kids Burger King is trashy. Your sister was trying to help you wake up. Obviously it's easier for you to jump online and play the victim than it is to be a good mother.

Is it trashy if it is all you can afford? Snobby, clueless, odd comment.

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My sister, mother to a toddler, told me something similar. My kids use their iPads to go to school, but she felt this was dangerous to their mental health.

So I sat her down and explained that she is a far better mother than me. I congratulated her on raising a screen free one year old. I told her I was so impressed that she banned screens for life. Then I hugged her and said I was proud of her amazing parenting skills.

She shut up. That’s all I wanted. I can’t wait until her kid starts using screens. Haha

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, feeding little kids Burger King is trashy. Your sister was trying to help you wake up. Obviously it's easier for you to jump online and play the victim than it is to be a good mother.

Is it trashy if it is all you can afford? Snobby, clueless, odd comment.

Lentils and salt, 79 cents and more nutritious. Boil in water. Half the globe eats this as a staple and are heakthier and thinner than “poor” obese American Burger King kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Is getting together for dinner once in a while and holidays, birthdays, etc. not enough? I really don’t get why extended family plan vacations all together. Too much. Just vacation with your own family from now on

I think we can infer the put together sister is more credentialed and affluent, thus inviting OP and her happy meal kiddos is out of noblesse oblige.

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Fast food, whatever, but it does kind of stink to go on vacation with other kids who are so tethered to their devices that they use them every day instead of playing together.

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OP, your sister just needs to work on her communication issues. She was uncomfortable setting boundaries with her kids and with you, and then was angry when they were crossed, and so instead she decided to direct her anger to you and start lecturing you about why her parenting approach was better than yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, feeding little kids Burger King is trashy. Your sister was trying to help you wake up. Obviously it's easier for you to jump online and play the victim than it is to be a good mother.

Is it trashy if it is all you can afford? Snobby, clueless, odd comment.

Dont be ridiculous. a person who is on vacation with her family in her own cottage i doubt she can only afford BK to feed her kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Fast food, whatever, but it does kind of stink to go on vacation with other kids who are so tethered to their devices that they use them every day instead of playing together.

That is not what OP described at all. She described screens in the period of time before dinner where everyone is recharging/vegging after being at the pool.

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Anonymous wrote:I probably would have brought some BK for my sister's kids, honestly. She would still freak, but at least it wouldn't be as insane as her freaking out that you inadvertently allowed your kids to eat their own lunch in the vicinity of her organic, screen-free children.

I LOVE this. TRUTH....

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, feeding little kids Burger King is trashy. Your sister was trying to help you wake up. Obviously it's easier for you to jump online and play the victim than it is to be a good mother.

Calling people names is trashy. Check your local mirror..

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I have to chime back in to say how fascinating these threads ripen into elaborate scenarios with no basis on the original post -- as in, suddenly the kids who popped onto iPads while waiting for dinner are ignoring their cousins to be on iPads all the time, and a mom who stopped quickly at a drive-thru now feeds her obese kids nothing but fast-food. It's a weird phenomenon how details get warped to fit a nonsensical narrative.

I think most kids recharge/relax occasionally with an iPad before dinner.

I know very few parents who have absolutely never quickly gone to a drive-thru, and it has no bearing on their child-rearing skills or health perspectives.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to chime back in to say how fascinating these threads ripen into elaborate scenarios with no basis on the original post -- as in, suddenly the kids who popped onto iPads while waiting for dinner are ignoring their cousins to be on iPads all the time, and a mom who stopped quickly at a drive-thru now feeds her obese kids nothing but fast-food. It's a weird phenomenon how details get warped to fit a nonsensical narrative.

I think most kids recharge/relax occasionally with an iPad before dinner.

I know very few parents who have absolutely never quickly gone to a drive-thru, and it has no bearing on their child-rearing skills or health perspectives.

All the time here. So much projection.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to chime back in to say how fascinating these threads ripen into elaborate scenarios with no basis on the original post -- as in, suddenly the kids who popped onto iPads while waiting for dinner are ignoring their cousins to be on iPads all the time, and a mom who stopped quickly at a drive-thru now feeds her obese kids nothing but fast-food. It's a weird phenomenon how details get warped to fit a nonsensical narrative.

I think most kids recharge/relax occasionally with an iPad before dinner.

I know very few parents who have absolutely never quickly gone to a drive-thru, and it has no bearing on their child-rearing skills or health perspectives.

Many of you are in denial and coping. Millions of normal families do not eat fast food. It's one thing for an adult to grab a burger in an airport or even a McMuffin before work -- an adult. It's an entirely different thing to feed that poisonous garbage to children. Ever notice where fast food restaurants are concentrated? Low class hoods. Where they're basically banned? High class hoods. I'm sure in your delusional mind millions of affluent families drive 'across the tracks' to go score fast food a few nights a week.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to chime back in to say how fascinating these threads ripen into elaborate scenarios with no basis on the original post -- as in, suddenly the kids who popped onto iPads while waiting for dinner are ignoring their cousins to be on iPads all the time, and a mom who stopped quickly at a drive-thru now feeds her obese kids nothing but fast-food. It's a weird phenomenon how details get warped to fit a nonsensical narrative.

I think most kids recharge/relax occasionally with an iPad before dinner.

I know very few parents who have absolutely never quickly gone to a drive-thru, and it has no bearing on their child-rearing skills or health perspectives.

Many of you are in denial and coping. Millions of normal families do not eat fast food. It's one thing for an adult to grab a burger in an airport or even a McMuffin before work -- an adult. It's an entirely different thing to feed that poisonous garbage to children. Ever notice where fast food restaurants are concentrated? Low class hoods. Where they're basically banned? High class hoods. I'm sure in your delusional mind millions of affluent families drive 'across the tracks' to go score fast food a few nights a week.

Oh, my.