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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If my kid came home and there was no dinner, he’d make something for himself. Not a big deal. He wouldn’t expect that I would bring him food. He’s capable of making his own because I taught him starting around age 7-8. [/quote]

So you have been training him from the time he was 7 years old to know that he can’t rely on you.  I know you think this is a parenting flex, but I think it’s depressing.[/quote]

Teaching your child how to cook is not teaching them they can't rely on you. It is teaching them they can rely on themselves. PP did NOT say she left her 7 year old to fend for himself.[/quote]

She said her kid wouldn’t bat an eye if he came home and mom and dad had not put in the slightest effort (mental or physical) into what he was going to have for dinner that night.  Which means he’s used to being neglected. (And not providing your kids with meals is absolutely a form of neglect, stop kidding yourselves.)

Some of you act like you’re superior parents, but in reality you’re just lazy and don’t feel like taking care of your kids.  It’s way more fun to go out to a dinner and the kids can go eff themselves, the entitled little brats!

My parents cooked for me, and somehow [b]I managed to become a functional adult [/b]who cooks for my kids.  They’re not lacking any sort of foundational life skills by not being expected to function like adults before they are actually adults.[/quote]

But with a lot of irrational anger, for some reason. [/quote]

What anger?  I don’t actually care if y’all are sh!tty parents, but I do feel a bit sorry for your kids.[/quote]

You are so extremely overreacting.  Not a single person on this thread has said anything even remotely suggestive of neglect. None of these people's children are going hungry. None are coming home to a house that has no food in it. None are being refused food. None are being ignored. It sounds like all of them are being taught appropriate skills at appropriate ages for learning to cook and buy food and flexibly adapt to occasional variable family schedules.[/quote]

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