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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s never crossed my mind once while eating out to order food to bring home to my kids. I do tell them all the options at home for dinner so they know what’s available to them. But I’d never bring anything home more than just leftovers. [/quote]

It doesn’t cross my mind either when I go out.  But maybe that’s because I make them dinner BEFORE I go out.  (You know, like a good parent.)[/quote]

Wow, that’s super judgmental. Good parents teach kids how to cook and not rely on others for all their meals by their late teens. If your kids don’t like what’s offered at the college cafeteria if they go to college, will you show up with a hot meal? [/quote]

The fact that you folks keep bringing up college in a thread about high school (and some posters have even bragged about not feeding their middle school kids) is telling.

I teach my minor children how to cook.  I also make sure that my minor children are fed.  One can (and should) do both.  Pretending that leaving your kids to fend for themselves is good parenting is simply a justification for selfish and lazy parental behavior.[/quote]

Pp you are replying to. I mention college because the significant majority of 17 year old kids of DCUM posters are heading to college.

My kids are in 7th and 8th grades. On the rare occasions I actually head out to dinner without them, theres very little chance I’m actually cooking a dinner before I head out for a relaxing dinner out. I tell them the options they can make, which almost always includes leftovers and leave.

If op’s kids wants to work that many hours then I find it hard to believe they weren’t provided breaks during which they could grab something to eat. 
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I, too, was the most amazing perfect parent to high schoolers until I had them.[/quote]

Yeah, lol.

People with younger kids always hate older kids. Many moons ago, I remember my kids coming home from late elementary and complaining about all the rude moms with strollers at the corner store, barking at them, but then blocking aisles, i.e. doing the very thing they were upset about. [/quote]

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