Do you cook separate dinner for your kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too tough? What no! If anything you are leaning on the side of too easy. this is one of the reasons kids are spoiled now a days bc they get catered to with their own meals.

Growing up we ate what my parents cooked for the family my parents weren’t short order cooks.

Obviously I’m not talking about allergy restrictions here.

I’m 33 years old so I’m not an 80 year old saying this.

I’m a preschool teacher and I see the spoiledness of children first hand everyday.

So there is nothing you don’t eat?

And trust and believe I as a preschool teacher suffer the results everyday of parents who don’t discipline and set boundaries and limits for their children. And you can tell by the behavior of the children which children are given limits and boundaries and which ones have mommy and daddy wrapped around their finger and have them spoiled expecting that in life they get everything they want.

But oh that’s right we live in the let’s blame the teachers for everything era. Because now teachers aren’t supposed to just teach but also teach children how to act and behave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too tough? What no! If anything you are leaning on the side of too easy. this is one of the reasons kids are spoiled now a days bc they get catered to with their own meals.

Growing up we ate what my parents cooked for the family my parents weren’t short order cooks.

Obviously I’m not talking about allergy restrictions here.

I’m 33 years old so I’m not an 80 year old saying this.

I’m a preschool teacher and I see the spoiledness of children first hand everyday.

So there is nothing you don’t eat?

And trust and believe I as a preschool teacher suffer the results everyday of parents who don’t discipline and set boundaries and limits for their children. And you can tell by the behavior of the children which children are given limits and boundaries and which ones have mommy and daddy wrapped around their finger and have them spoiled expecting that in life they get everything they want.

But oh that’s right we live in the let’s blame the teachers for everything era. Because now teachers aren’t supposed to just teach but also teach children how to act and behave.

[Anonymous]

I used to! Then DS became a teen and started eating pretty much anything and everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too tough? What no! If anything you are leaning on the side of too easy. this is one of the reasons kids are spoiled now a days bc they get catered to with their own meals.

Growing up we ate what my parents cooked for the family my parents weren’t short order cooks.

Obviously I’m not talking about allergy restrictions here.

I’m 33 years old so I’m not an 80 year old saying this.

I’m a preschool teacher and I see the spoiledness of children first hand everyday.

So there is nothing you don’t eat?

And trust and believe I as a preschool teacher suffer the results everyday of parents who don’t discipline and set boundaries and limits for their children. And you can tell by the behavior of the children which children are given limits and boundaries and which ones have mommy and daddy wrapped around their finger and have them spoiled expecting that in life they get everything they want.

But oh that’s right we live in the let’s blame the teachers for everything era. Because now teachers aren’t supposed to just teach but also teach children how to act and behave.

DP.
The problem with many teachers is that they view limits much narrower than not only the parents but also the science of child development

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too tough? What no! If anything you are leaning on the side of too easy. this is one of the reasons kids are spoiled now a days bc they get catered to with their own meals.

Growing up we ate what my parents cooked for the family my parents weren’t short order cooks.

Obviously I’m not talking about allergy restrictions here.

I’m 33 years old so I’m not an 80 year old saying this.

I’m a preschool teacher and I see the spoiledness of children first hand everyday.

So there is nothing you don’t eat?

And trust and believe I as a preschool teacher suffer the results everyday of parents who don’t discipline and set boundaries and limits for their children. And you can tell by the behavior of the children which children are given limits and boundaries and which ones have mommy and daddy wrapped around their finger and have them spoiled expecting that in life they get everything they want.

But oh that’s right we live in the let’s blame the teachers for everything era. Because now teachers aren’t supposed to just teach but also teach children how to act and behave.

So there is plenty you don’t eat but you can’t admit it because it shows how ignorant your stance is.

[Anonymous]

He done dud the impossible

[Anonymous]

Yes i cook things separately for my kids because they like boring, tasteless food, and I like more flavorful ethnic food. I was like them when I was a kid. I would fake vomiting at dinner time to get out of eating. I was often bribed with dessert to get me to eat. I'm confident they'll get more adventurous, but for now,. yes, I make separate items with no spice, or make a protein alternative to fish. My kids eat a good variety of foods and are well nourished. I won't lie, I miss the days of coming home to make a spicy vegetable curry or trying some weird new recipe and calling it a day in the kitchen. Overall my cooking has gotten less adventurous since having kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We eat the same about 3x a week because that food is essentially boring and often fattening

Chicken/rice/veggie
Steak/potato/salad
Tacos
Etc


But I don’t really want to eat boring and fattening food all the time so I make special meals for me and my h and kids eat the basics.

Why are you feeding your kids boring, fattening foods? What do you think they're going to grow up to eat?

This is such a western thing I'll never understand.

Chicken, rice, and veggies is fattening? This is what I eat for dinner when I'm watching what I eat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, but I will serve things deconstructed.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too tough? What no! If anything you are leaning on the side of too easy. this is one of the reasons kids are spoiled now a days bc they get catered to with their own meals.

Growing up we ate what my parents cooked for the family my parents weren’t short order cooks.

Obviously I’m not talking about allergy restrictions here.

I’m 33 years old so I’m not an 80 year old saying this.

I’m a preschool teacher and I see the spoiledness of children first hand everyday.

So there is nothing you don’t eat?

And trust and believe I as a preschool teacher suffer the results everyday of parents who don’t discipline and set boundaries and limits for their children. And you can tell by the behavior of the children which children are given limits and boundaries and which ones have mommy and daddy wrapped around their finger and have them spoiled expecting that in life they get everything they want.

But oh that’s right we live in the let’s blame the teachers for everything era. Because now teachers aren’t supposed to just teach but also teach children how to act and behave.

This seems pretty over the top. And I’m the last person to blame teachers (my spouse was one, I know how unbearably hard it can be). But things are usually more complicated than you are trying to make it here. Sure I’m sure there are some parents not holding boundaries. For most of my friends that’s not the case though, from what I witness. And kids temperaments play into this soo much more than you are giving credit for. If you were the preschool teacher to my older son, and assumed that kids who push boundaries have parents that are just spoiling them, you would assume we spoil him. But if you were preschool teacher to my youngest, you would definitely think we were parents of the year. My oldest has ADHD, a much more intense temperament and tendency to push push push. My youngest does what you ask the first time most of the time. It’s just who he is, he’s quieter and more sensitive and at this point seems neurotypical.

Anyway, at 3-4 there is a lot you don’t know yet. Some of your kids will later be diagnosed with anxiety, ADHD. Some of them will just be tough 3 year olds. Putting SO much stock into parenting is a little flawed, in my opinion.

[Anonymous]

90% of the time no, they get what we get, but DH and I love a couple dishes that are really spicy so we do offer a different main course when we make those.