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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of these kids need to be drinking water all day long at school. She can drink plenty of water before and after school.

+1. None of us had water bottles we carried around all day and we were fine. Don’t get her the Stanley cup. She needs to learn to navigate life not be a sheep who tries to extort you. If she gets thirsty, she will drink from the water fountain. - child of immigrants.

How many pairs of shoes do you have? Is it more than one? Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cup leaks. She will grow tired of carrying and spilling it all day. By leaks I mean gushes out water.

I’d agree to get a nice sealed water bottle. Look at Owala instead, and she’d need to do extra chores to earn it. They are also popular and all over TikTok.

If she needs to work to earn it, she should get to pick which one she is working for. Can you imagine if your boss told you that you couldn't buy the things you want--that your boss would pick out what you should have and send your paycheck directly to pay for that?

If she chooses to spend her EARNED money on the Stanley cup and it does leak, that's a good lesson for her too-that just because something is more expensive doesn't mean it's the best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of these kids need to be drinking water all day long at school. She can drink plenty of water before and after school.

+1. None of us had water bottles we carried around all day and we were fine. Don’t get her the Stanley cup. She needs to learn to navigate life not be a sheep who tries to extort you. If she gets thirsty, she will drink from the water fountain. - child of immigrants.

How many pairs of shoes do you have? Is it more than one? Why?

Not many, actually. And I work to pay for them and buy what I need, it what others tell me I should want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let her dehydrate. She sounds like a silly insecure fool,

Rude. If you were a kid new to a country you would want to assimilate. It’s normal. Hopefully by high school she’ll get better quality friends.

Not rude, true. There are water fountains available. She can buy a beverage (or the free milk) at lunch. No one is going to die without a Stanley cup to hydrate. Or…she can take a different water bottle. But realistically, if she isn’t thirst at school to drink given the various options available to her, she isn’t going to drink from the Stanley either. It’s just a prop. She make take a sip once or twice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did she drink from before the Stanley craze?
The Owala water bottle is still cool at our private MS in moco luckily.

Probably nothing…like every other kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many hypocritical posts in this thread. Everybody here does/has something (and, in reality, LOTS of things) to fit into their current circumstance. But let's drawn the line at a Stanley Cup and pick on a middle schooler trying to fit in during one of the worst stages of youth.

Because the dramatic mom is acting like her daughters health is failing bc stubborn daughter isn’t drinking water. It’s like believing your toddler will pass out and die if they hold their breath to get what they want. She will be fine with no water bottlle.

Honestly, who cares? It's a middle school girl trying to fit in. It's a water bottle. This kid has no idea that in addition to feeling like she suffers the judgment of kids at her school, she suffers the judgment of posters like you who haven't been in middle school in decades.

She suffers! Oh how she suffers! I actually know how this goes. My daughter used her money to get the cup. Then was mocked for it being the wrong color. Then when the girls got over the mocking of the color they mocked her b/c I "ruined" it by writing her name on it in Sharpie. It kept escalating until we talked to the principal and that amongst other things was considered bullying and the school finally stepped in. It's not the cup. If I could do it all over I wouldn't have even let her bring the cup to school. She suffers b/c kids are mean at this age. One item fits nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of these kids need to be drinking water all day long at school. She can drink plenty of water before and after school.

+1. None of us had water bottles we carried around all day and we were fine. Don’t get her the Stanley cup. She needs to learn to navigate life not be a sheep who tries to extort you. If she gets thirsty, she will drink from the water fountain. - child of immigrants.

How old are your kids? This statement tells me you have no experience with current tweens/teens and what the hallways in a school are like. This is like the "teens need boots" thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of these kids need to be drinking water all day long at school. She can drink plenty of water before and after school.

+1. None of us had water bottles we carried around all day and we were fine. Don’t get her the Stanley cup. She needs to learn to navigate life not be a sheep who tries to extort you. If she gets thirsty, she will drink from the water fountain. - child of immigrants.

How many pairs of shoes do you have? Is it more than one? Why?

Not many, actually. And I work to pay for them and buy what I need, it what others tell me I should want.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to buy more than one. That same pair of shoes should be good enough to be used for work, exercise, and social activities. Why do you feel the need to have more than one pair of shoes to fit in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many hypocritical posts in this thread. Everybody here does/has something (and, in reality, LOTS of things) to fit into their current circumstance. But let's drawn the line at a Stanley Cup and pick on a middle schooler trying to fit in during one of the worst stages of youth.

Because the dramatic mom is acting like her daughters health is failing bc stubborn daughter isn’t drinking water. It’s like believing your toddler will pass out and die if they hold their breath to get what they want. She will be fine with no water bottlle.

Honestly, who cares? It's a middle school girl trying to fit in. It's a water bottle. This kid has no idea that in addition to feeling like she suffers the judgment of kids at her school, she suffers the judgment of posters like you who haven't been in middle school in decades.

She suffers! Oh how she suffers! I actually know how this goes. My daughter used her money to get the cup. Then was mocked for it being the wrong color. Then when the girls got over the mocking of the color they mocked her b/c I "ruined" it by writing her name on it in Sharpie. It kept escalating until we talked to the principal and that amongst other things was considered bullying and the school finally stepped in. It's not the cup. If I could do it all over I wouldn't have even let her bring the cup to school. She suffers b/c kids are mean at this age. One item fits nothing.

And this will be her experience? You're projecting your experience as reason to judge her and her mom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many hypocritical posts in this thread. Everybody here does/has something (and, in reality, LOTS of things) to fit into their current circumstance. But let's drawn the line at a Stanley Cup and pick on a middle schooler trying to fit in during one of the worst stages of youth.

Because the dramatic mom is acting like her daughters health is failing bc stubborn daughter isn’t drinking water. It’s like believing your toddler will pass out and die if they hold their breath to get what they want. She will be fine with no water bottlle.

Honestly, who cares? It's a middle school girl trying to fit in. It's a water bottle. This kid has no idea that in addition to feeling like she suffers the judgment of kids at her school, she suffers the judgment of posters like you who haven't been in middle school in decades.

She suffers! Oh how she suffers! I actually know how this goes. My daughter used her money to get the cup. Then was mocked for it being the wrong color. Then when the girls got over the mocking of the color they mocked her b/c I "ruined" it by writing her name on it in Sharpie. It kept escalating until we talked to the principal and that amongst other things was considered bullying and the school finally stepped in. It's not the cup. If I could do it all over I wouldn't have even let her bring the cup to school. She suffers b/c kids are mean at this age. One item fits nothing.

And this will be her experience? You're projecting your experience as reason to judge her and her mom?

Well you made up the silly notion that I was judging her daughter. What do you know about teens these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of these kids need to be drinking water all day long at school. She can drink plenty of water before and after school.

+1. None of us had water bottles we carried around all day and we were fine. Don’t get her the Stanley cup. She needs to learn to navigate life not be a sheep who tries to extort you. If she gets thirsty, she will drink from the water fountain. - child of immigrants.

How many pairs of shoes do you have? Is it more than one? Why?

Not many, actually. And I work to pay for them and buy what I need, it what others tell me I should want.

What's your point? Do you charge your kids rent then?

[Anonymous]

Make her make a 250 solar water pastuerization packages for next people and then get her that Stanley. She needs to know even having clean water is awesome

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t she use the water fountain at school if her water bottle is not cool? I get wanting to fit in but right now it’s the Stanley cup, it will be something else later.

Neither of my kids’ schools have water fountains any more.

I am not saying she needs a Stanley, just answering the question of why she likely can’t use the water fountain.

Drinking fountains and/filling stations are required by law, one per 100 students and at least one each level

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of these kids need to be drinking water all day long at school. She can drink plenty of water before and after school.

+1. None of us had water bottles we carried around all day and we were fine. Don’t get her the Stanley cup. She needs to learn to navigate life not be a sheep who tries to extort you. If she gets thirsty, she will drink from the water fountain. - child of immigrants.

How many pairs of shoes do you have? Is it more than one? Why?

Np and this comparison doesn’t make any sense. Honestly, I only have five pairs of shoes. You need shoes, you don’t need a Stanley cup. You need water, but you don’t need a drink it out of a Stanley Cup to survive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is how keeping up with the Joneses startS. Always wanting to do with the other person is doing and always wanting to look a certain way because the Joneses look a certain way. It’s a good thing to not start.

This is a teachable moment and OP should rise to meet it. This a chance to drop trashy fake friends and improve her trajectory in life.